← America: A Personal History of the United States · Season 1

Domesticating A Wilderness

S1 · E8 · 31 Dec 1972 · 50 min

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In the 1840s over the crest of the Rockies there lay the first successful community West of the United States, the residents called it the City of the Saints, it's more commonly known as Salt Lake City. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Americans headed further West, Cooke follows in their footsteps...