FORGOTTEN JOURNEY: THE STEPHENS-TOWNSEND-MURPHY SAGA
Price: $39.95 Code: 2062 |
Directed by Miles Saunders and Kit Tyler
2001, color, 57 mins.
Purchase: $39.95
In 1844 the Oregon Trail was full of farm families moving West, but that summer one party set out on its own, heading into an unknown wilderness and blazing the trail to California. They survived the hardships of waterless deserts and mountain snow storms to become the first party to successfully cross the Sierra Nevada with covered wagons. Featuring archival materials, dramatic re-creations and interviews with historians, this video chronicles one of the truly remarkable achievements in the history of the West, a story of courage and desperate survival, of men and women working together against overwhelming odds to realize their dream of a better life.
2001, color, 57 mins.
Purchase: $39.95
In 1844 the Oregon Trail was full of farm families moving West, but that summer one party set out on its own, heading into an unknown wilderness and blazing the trail to California. They survived the hardships of waterless deserts and mountain snow storms to become the first party to successfully cross the Sierra Nevada with covered wagons. Featuring archival materials, dramatic re-creations and interviews with historians, this video chronicles one of the truly remarkable achievements in the history of the West, a story of courage and desperate survival, of men and women working together against overwhelming odds to realize their dream of a better life.