America's national treasures : the complete 12 volume series
Format:
Video disc
Title:
America's national treasures : the complete 12 volume series
Publication Information:
[United States] : Mill Creek Entertainment, ©2010.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (approximately 7 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from container.
Special features: Directions to monuments; Plains national monuments by date founded; Plains national monuments by state; Plains national monuments by president with biographies and pictures.
Contents:
Disc one. Legacy of the Great Plains. Vol. 1. Geologic wonders of the Northern Plains ; Vol. 2. Sioux Indian wars ; Vol. 3. Manifest destiny ; Vol. 4. The Southern Plains -- The historic South. Vol. 5. Prehistoric native Americans ; Vol. 6. Southern Spanish colonies ; Vol. 7. Slavery and the plantation system ; Vol. 8. Civil War and the Confederacy -- Disc two. The geologic West. Vol. 9. Fossil treasures of the Pacific Northwest ; Vol. 10. The Pacific Northwest's Ring of Fire ; Vol. 11. The historic Pacific Northwest ; Vol. 12. The great biodiversity of the Pacific Northwest.
Summary:
In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt created the nation's first National Monument destination. The purpose was to preserve all of America's significant pieces of history. Now viewers can take a journey through the ecology, geology, and beauty of the Great Plains, the geologic West, and the historic South in an adventure never to be forgotten.
Reading Level:
Rating: TV G.