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The West. Episode 9. One sky above us

As the 20th century neared Americans celebrated with the World Columbian Exposition. Some Native Americans waged a struggle to hold onto traditions, while othere chose to learn the ways of the white men. In California a battle waged to control the region's precious water supply. By the twentieth century the West had changed, but it continued to be a symbol of something unquestionably American.

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  • "West: One sky above us"
  • "One sky above us"@en
  • "West"@en
  • "Ken Burns presents The West: One sky above us"@en

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  • "As the 20th century neared Americans celebrated with the World Columbian Exposition. Some Native Americans waged a struggle to hold onto traditions, while othere chose to learn the ways of the white men. In California a battle waged to control the region's precious water supply. By the twentieth century the West had changed, but it continued to be a symbol of something unquestionably American."@en
  • "Chronicles the history of America's vast and turbulent region, beginning before European settlement and continuing into the 20th century."@en
  • "In 1895 Americans celebrated the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where Western states demonstrated their prosperity. The need for water drove Los Angeles to expropriate it from hundreds of miles away. Settlers on the Plains survived crushing hardships and setbacks, but never lost hope in the West's infinite possibilites for success."@en
  • "Los Angeles steals its water supply, millions of Mexicans migrate north, and Hollywood begins to shape the West and the nation's image of it. At the end of the 19th century, America celebrated the "closing" of the West, but differing historical accounts help us learn how the West's story never ends, and how it continues to influence American life today"
  • "As the 20th century neared, Americans celebrated with the World Columbian Exposition, where they were told that the frontier had closed, 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. Much had changed in the West, but it continued to be what it had always been--a landscape of the imagination, the reservoir of our shared hopes and dreams, a place of both conflict and infinite possibility, and an enduring symbol of something unquestionably American."@en

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  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Drama"@en

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  • "The West. Episode 9. One sky above us"@en
  • "The West Episode 9. One sky above us"@en
  • "The West Episode 9, One sky above us"
  • "The West. [Episode 9], One sky above us"
  • "The West. Volume 9, One sky above us"@en
  • "One sky above us"@en

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