Multimedia Collection
One Sky Above Us
(The West series)
VHS
62 minutes
F591 .O5321 1996
As the 20th century neared, Americans celebrated with the World Columbian Exposition, where they were told that the frontier had closed - symbolized by one state proudly displaying an entire herd of buffalo... stuffed . But in the real West, for every frontier story that ended, another one began.
Some Native Americans waged a struggle to hold onto their traditions in the midst of rapid, overwhelming change, while others chose to learn the white man's ways, hoping to help their families and their tribe. In California, the emerging metropolis of Los Angeles waged yet another battle to control the arid region's most precious commodity - water. By the time the new century was underway much had changed in the West. But the West continued to be what it had always been - a landscape of the imagination, the reservoir of our shared hopes, dreams and aspirations, a place of both conflict and infinite possibility, and an enduring symbol of something ineffably, unquestionably American.
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