The Geography of Hope (EP7)
Résumé de l'épisode 7
The conquest of the West was nearly complete by the 1870s. In one remarkable decade, with Indians effectively confined to reservations, over four million new settlers arrived to stake their claim to the future. Homesteaders proudly built homes of prairie sod, then battled drought and hard times in order to survive. Pap Singleton, an ex-slave from Tennessee, became the era's "Black Moses," leading his people to the free soil of Kansas. A bookish ethnologist named Frank Hamilton Cushing, sent west to study the Zuni, became a prominent member of the tribe, taking an enemy scalp and becoming a war chief. A frail New York politician, Theodore Roosevelt, turned himself into a rugged North Dakota rancher. As Americans tried to "tame" the West, the nation's greatest showman, Buffalo Bill Cody, offered adoring crowds his enthusiastic version of the "Wild West" -- heroic, glorious, romantic, and most of all, mythic.