The American West. Episode 18, John Wesley Powell and the Desert Southwest
(2019, original release: 2017)
Nonfiction
eCourse
Details
PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2017
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
6679922
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from title frames
Twenty years after the end of the Mexican War, thousands of square miles of desert land the U.S. received had yet to be mapped and settled. That's where John Wesley Powell came in, whose report on these arid regions sparked the rise of irrigation farming techniques that would lead to unimaginable bounty
Film
In Process Record
Patrick N. Allitt
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2017
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English