American Experience — Season 1, Episode 13: Views of a Vanishing Frontier
Documentary • 55 min • 37 seasons, 399 episodes • ★ 6.6/10
Episode synopsis
The journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Mississippi River area from 1832-34, meticulously documenting in paintings and journals the landscape, plants and life of Native Americans.
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- E1The Great San Francisco Earthquake
- E2Radio Bikini
- E3Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
- E4Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
- E5The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
- E6Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
- E7Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
- E8Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
- E9Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
- E10That Rhythm, Those Blues
- E11The Radio Priest
- E12Hearts and Hands