The American West offered everything to the frontier family: gold, silver, land, a new life. In 1869, four years after the War Between the States and 43 years after the locomotive engine was invented, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed -- one of the greatest engineering feats of its time -- and the colonization of the West was underway on two parallel steel beams that connected the American coasts. In this 50-minute documentary, learn about the men and women who risked their lives against bandits and hostile ...
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The American West offered everything to the frontier family: gold, silver, land, a new life. In 1869, four years after the War Between the States and 43 years after the locomotive engine was invented, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed -- one of the greatest engineering feats of its time -- and the colonization of the West was underway on two parallel steel beams that connected the American coasts. In this 50-minute documentary, learn about the men and women who risked their lives against bandits and hostile terrain to "go West." This tape features rare photographs, re-creations, and interviews with experts and historians. Forrest Spencer, Rovi
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The Railroads That Tamed the West looks at the construction of the railroads between 1869 (the completion of the transcontinental railroad) and the 1930s (when air travel started to replace rail travel). Topics portrayed include the challenges facing railroaders, the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, dangers of rail travel, hazards of being a railroad worker, the invention of the coupler, the development of the air brake, George Pullman and the improvement of sleeping cars, dining cars, immigrants, competition among survey teams, the Homestead Act of 1862, the creation of towns, freight transport, refrigeration cars, the establishment of standard railroad time, and James Hill and the Great Northern Railway. The video concludes with a consideration of how the railroad industry sought to conserve the West by promoting the national park system. I show this video as part of my Westward Movement unit in my American history classes and have found it to be an effective teaching tool (but it does contain one expletive so you might want to inform students ahead of time). Still, this video strikes a good balance between economic history and the history of technology.