The American West. Episode 18, John Wesley Powell and the Desert Southwest
(2019, original release: 2017)

Nonfiction

eCourse

Provider: Kanopy

Details

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
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

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