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Physical Desc
xv, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Boundaries -- lines imposed on the landscape -- shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular. Drawing lines to create states in the trans-Mississippi West, he points out, imposed a...
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3 videodiscs (approximately 441 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Every state has a shape and every line has a story to tell. This is a quiz show about what really divides the states and how those rivalries have shaped the nation and its people. This season, Brian Unger hits the road to uncover the history hidden in our map through man-on-the-street quizzes and head-to-head competitions that reveal the surprising history of places we thought we knew.
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