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222) Watershed
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River and offers solutions for the future of the American West.
224) Droughtland
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Severe, life altering drought conditions face farmers, ranchers and residents living in southeastern Colorado. This 45-minute documentary focuses on devastating conditions, described by many as being worse than the dust bowl era of the 1930's. Long-time residents who depend on water now question their futures Hear about the under-publicized issue in an area one rancher describes as "the other Colorado." And learn about the ramifications of what drought...
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aDust Bowl: The Dust Bowl was a dark and dreary time for many Coloradans. Between 1862 and 1934, the federal government granted 1.6 million homesteads to Americans under the Homesteading Act of 1862. This Colorado Experience episode follows two families who moved west, hoping to reap the benefits of the farming boom. Their luck changes as they find themselves in the middle of one of the largest environmental disasters to hit the plains.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Produced at the behest of FDR as a means of supporting his controversial New Deal policies, these two films provide and accurate, eloquent record of the people and the land of the United States during the 1930s. Filmed by some of the industry's most talented craftsmen and accompanied by exquisite musical scores.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"The first graphic novel adaptation of the work of master storyteller Louis Land'Amour is a dynamic tale of the Old West that explores the borderlands of loyalty and betrayal with the emotional grittiness of a noir thriller. and New Mexico, 1887, a land in the midst of the worst drought anyone can remember. Family histories and loyalties run deep, but when rancher Tom Forrester has his access to the Pecos River cut off by the son of his old partner,...
230) Sarah, Plain & Tall
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Pub. Date
1999, c1990
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An early twentieth-century Kansas family begins a new life with the arrival of Sarah, a mail-order bride; struggles through a drought; and copes with the return of Jacob's estranged father.
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Pub. Date
c2006
Description
The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before. Egan tells the epic story of this environmental disaster and its impact on the communities stricken with fear and choked by dust in the "dirty thirties". This is the story of those who stayed and survived, those who, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave and it is an extraordinary...
233) Mega disasters
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Asteroid apocalypse: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine how an impact on the American west coast could spell disaster for the nation. Atlantis apocalypse: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine how another eruption of the Santorini Volcano, like the one 3,500 years ago, could affect people today.
American volcano: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine what would happen if Mt. Rainier erupted like...
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