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Title The American West. Episode 18, John Wesley Powell and the Desert Southwest
Published The Great Courses, 2017
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): .flv file, sound
Summary Twenty years after the end of the Mexican War, thousands of square miles of desert land the U.S. received had yet to be mapped and settled. That's where John Wesley Powell came in, whose report on these arid regions sparked the rise of irrigation farming techniques that would lead to unimaginable bounty
Notes Title from title frames
Film
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Performer Patrick N. Allitt
Event Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2017
Notes In English
Subject History, Modern.
Americans.
Americans.
History, Modern.
Genre/Form Education films.
Form Streaming video
Author N. Allitt, Patrick, actor
The Great Courses (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm),