Name: Going Home (1920 – 1933)
Released: 2009-09-30

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

S1 · E4 — Going Home (1920 – 1933)

S1:E4 · Going Home (1920 – 1933)

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6 episodes in this season

The Scripture of Nature (1851 – 1890)

114 min

The Last Refuge (1890 – 1915)

131 min

The Empire of Grandeur (1915 – 1919)

111 min

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Great Nature (1933 – 1945)

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The National Parks: America's Best Idea

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20091h 55m7.9

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Going Home (1920 – 1933)

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Sep 30, 2009

While visiting the parks was once predominantly the domain of Americans wealthy enough to afford the high-priced train tours, the advent of the automobile allows more people than ever before to visit the parks. Mather embraces this opportunity and works to build more roads in the parks. Some park enthusiasts, such as Margaret and Edward Gehrke of Nebraska, begin "collecting" parks, making a point to visit as many as they can. In North Carolina, Horace Kephart, a reclusive writer, and George Masa, a Japanese immigrant, launch a campaign to protect the last strands of virgin forest in the Smoky Mountains by establishing it as a park. In Wyoming, John D. Rockefeller Jr. begins quietly buying up land in the Teton Mountain Range and valley in a secret plan to donate it to the government as a park.

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The National Parks: America's Best Idea

TV Series

20091h 55m7.9

Documentary

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Going Home (1920 – 1933)

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Sep 30, 2009

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