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A collection of 13 biographical sketches highlights 19 women and girls of Wyoming. Nominated by people in Wyoming for their inspirational stories, the women's accounts of their lives were filmed to make Wyoming women and girls visible -- "so that other women and girls will be inspired, and so that women's and girls' important roles in the life of the state will be valued as they deserve"--Website.
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Three-part Wyoming Public Television series which portrays Wyoming history, from the earliest inhabitants -- ancient man, Plains Indians, explorers, mountain men -- to immigrants, coal miners, railroad workers, cattle barons, and homesteaders. It includes personal stories from Prohibition through the Great Depression, and the creation of modern Wyoming from the days of World War II through the mineral booms.
4) Heartland
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"In 1910 Elinore Randall, a widow, and her seven-year-old daughter travel by train to face two great unknowns--a strange land and life with a man they have never met. Elinore has contracted by mail to keep house for Clyde Stewart, a rancher living in the remote frontier near Burntfork, Wyoming. Captivated by the vast landscape, Elinore acts quickly on her secret passion: to homestead a piece of land of her own. But fulfilling her year's contract with...
5) End of track
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"End of Track" is the story of the Transcontinental Railroad's construction march across southern Wyoming and the growing pains of a state in its infancy. It's a story of incredible engineering achievements and boisterous "Hell on Wheels" towns. A story of greed and corruption, murder and mayhem; of a clash of cultures and Native American retaliation. But it's also a story of hope and ambition, determination and unimagined success. "End of Track"...
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"The Bozeman Trail was a transportation corridor that crossed Wyoming from south to north, providing access to the Montana gold fields, but it also passed through Indian hunting grounds. As a result, it was one of the bloodiest trails on the western frontier."--from the Emrich Enterprises website.
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It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through...
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"With the national campaign for women's suffrage stalled, the thinly populated Wyoming Territory in 1869 became the first democracy in the world to recognize every woman's right to vote. Colorful frontier characters, a volatile mix of motives, and the caprice of history drive this story of a neglected chapter in America?s past. Wyoming PBS and Caldera Productions looks further back 150 years to when the Wyoming Territory led the way on women's suffrage."...
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After an overview of historic earthquakes, the video explains the scales used in measuring earthquake, the types of faults in Wyoming, the state's earthquake potential and high hazard areas. It follows with what can lessen the impact of earthquakes on homes and public buildings, and the information available from the Wyoming State Geological Survey's Geologic Hazards Section and the Wyoming Emergency Management Agency.
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The last state in the Rocky Mountains to adopt Prohibition, Wyoming failed to stop the sale and manufacture of illegal liquor. The Legislature created a new law enforcement agency, but two State Directors were fired for graft and bootlegging. Adding to the states problems, many county officials did not enforce Prohibition laws. Prohibition significantly impacted state politics and elections.
12) Wind River
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The struggle over water rights between white ranchers and the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes in Wyoming is discussed. All sides of the dispute explain their views.
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The unfolding saga of hardships and affections, losses and triumphs, as a controversial experiment brings the ultimate predator back into the heart of the West. Get a view from the pack as these magnificent creatures are reintegrated within the parameters of the oldest national park in the United States, Yellowstone of Wyoming.
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"This educational DVD is divided into three areas of interest: six Eastern Shoshone students' vocational internship at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC; an overview of Shoshone objects housed and managed in museums and the tribal community; Pow wow as a living aspect of material culture and celebration in the Shoshone word"--Container insert.
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Heart Mountain (located in northwest Wyoming near Cody and Powell) is a spectacular backdrop to a story of triumph and tragedy. During WWII, an internment camp filled with over 10,000 Japanese Americans sat in the shadow of the mountain. The U.S. government imprisoned its own people solely based on their nationality. The lessons from Heart Mountain must never be forgotten. Includes interviews with internees or their children.
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Main Street Wyoming volume 617
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This videotape introduces the executive branch of state government and covers all five of its offices: governor, secretary of state, superintendent of public instruction, auditor, and treasurer. This half-hour program features interviews with each of the elected members of the executive branch, video footage of their offices, and a meeting of one of the boards on which they all serve.
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