Bibliograph

Globe trekker, produced by Pilot Film and Television Productions for American Public Television ; producer, Chris Ledger

Type

Label

Globe trekker, produced by Pilot Film and Television Productions for American Public Television ; producer, Chris Ledger

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Globe trekker

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

959029730

Responsibility statement

produced by Pilot Film and Television Productions for American Public Television ; producer, Chris Ledger

Runtime

Series statement

Globe trekker history series

Summary

Video tour of America's nineteenth century Wild West. Sami Sabiti follows Lewis & Clark's 3700-mile journey while Holly Morris rides the Oregon Wagon Trail to Salt Lake City. Zay Harding visits the Alamo in San Antonio then rides shotgun outside El Paso, Texas, on the Butterfield Stagecoach, which carried passengers on a 3000-mile journey from Missouri to San Francisco. Holly joins the annual re-ride of the 2000-mile Pony Express in Utah, then Zay retraces the route of the transcontinental railroad. On the Great Plains, Zay meets a member of the Lakota tribe, who speaks of the extermination of the buffalo with the building of the railroad. Finally, Ian Wright heads to the Little Bighorn battlefield in Montana, the site of Custer's famous Last Stand

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Wild West

Classification