The American West. Episode 17, Life in Western Towns and Cities
(2019, original release: 2017)

Nonfiction

eCourse

Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2017
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
6679920
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

Survey the five main types of towns that developed in the American West: Spanish towns, mining towns, farming towns, railroad towns, and the Pacific coast cities. Three cities you'll explore in depth are Salt Lake City, laid out in 1847; Chicago, the central metropolis of the West; and the great port city of San Francisco

Film

In Process Record

Patrick N. Allitt

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2017

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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