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4 episodes in this season

Time and Terrain

57 min

New Green World

57 min

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Mountain Revolutions

57 min

Power and Place

57 min

Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People

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Mountain Revolutions

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Apr 23, 2009

A rich agrarian society is torn asunder by the cataclysm of the Civil War. “The race for the prize is on,” wrote Harper’s Magazine in 1872 as railroads pushed ever further into the mountains. Speculators spread through every timber rich and mineral infused hollow, making deals. The third hour of the series will tell the story of the region as it confronts this strange new industrial age. The story begins in the Great Forest, where virgin timber still abounded as late as 1880. Coal camps replace villages; mountain farms are abandoned; missionary schools spring up; the land, the people, the wildlife and the culture are endangered. Foresters, botanists, geologists, novelists, and historians all recount the changes in the land and its people as the coal is dug and the ancient trees are felled to fuel the nation's booming new industrial economy.

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Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People

TV Series

200957m

Documentary

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Mountain Revolutions

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Apr 23, 2009

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