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Educational film documenting the exploration & westward migration along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails, 1800s. Produced for the State of Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Originally shot on film. Much footage here was excerpted from other Kaw Valley films.
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Opening montage: MSs historical reenactors recreating drum & fife band circa 1776 while dressed in tri-corner hats & knickers & marching through colonial village; LS antique steamboat sailing on river; TLS Confederate Civil War reenactors firing muskets (rifles), smoke filling screen; TLS Confederate battery firing cannon during battle reenactment; LS Union Civil War reenactors firing cannon, smoke billowing out; TLS Yankee soldiers marching slowly across battlefield, point man carrying American flag (one actor is shot, falls backward, while soldiers kneel & return fire); sideview TLS antique steam engine locomotive train traveling through countryside, snowy mountain in far distance; TLS tour group on yellow train crossing steel beam bridge over ravine; TLS kids playing on steam engine of train, Goodyear Blimp flying overhead; TLS people-- inc blond girl sitting on her daddy's shoulders-- passing event tent w/ "Railroadiana Show" sign. Color graphic map of the United States, trail from Independence, MO, to Santa Fe & Oregon City shown. LS river delta tributary, dusk. LS storm clouds over flat barren semi-arid desert plain. Nice dusky clouds over two buttes. LSs clouds over mountains. LSs misty, foggy cliffs overlooking Pacific Ocean, waves rolling in.
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Traveling shot along white picket fence & white colonial house. 3/4 view TLS rowhouses. 3/4 view TLS brick townhouses. TLS horse-drawn wagon crossing bridge over quaint stream. Panning LS clouds lining edge of mountain. LS scenic river valley. CU/MSs statue of pioneer Daniel Boone. LSs two mules & wagon towing boat along canal (reenactment of Erie Canal). Oil painting of Emperor of rance Napoleon Bonaparte (wearing furs, jewels, laurels). Panning LS grass prairie. Oil painting of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. Graphic map of United States, land mass of Louisiana Purchase highlighted in drk green. Painting of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, York & Sacagawea standing on cliff overlooking river. Bas relief of Lewis & Clark. Oil painting of Zebulon Pike. Panning TLS pueblo fence-wall of Spanish fort; TLSs grounds of Spanish fort; MS view from prison cell, outside door being slammed shut, sealing off all light.
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MSs old cannons aimed out to sea from ramparts of seaside fortress. Illustrations of covered wagons, westward migration. Reenactment MSs pioneer walking with burdened horse, entering trading post / fort; MS male pioneers in buckskin outfitswalking about post, one with Winchester rifle slung over shoulder; MS several axes for sale; MS pioneers inspecting rifles for sale; MS/CUs nails on table; MS blankets for sale; MS Mexican man carrying two uncut animal hides; nice CU ears of mule perking forward; TLS horse tied to post pacing; MS mule, as viewed from between spokes of wagon wheel. Graphic map of Missouri River. MS harnessed horse pulling wagon. MS wildflower, horse pulling wagon through field in BG. CUs wagon wheel turning.
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MS memorial rock at Council Grove: "On this spot, Aug 10, 1825, the treaty was made with the Osage Indians for the right of way of the Santa Fe Trail." Reenactment MSs of three American Indian braves riding horse past stopped wagon. Great TLS/MSs Native American men riding horses (in silhouette) by covered wagon during sunset (dusk; great lighting). Sideview MS U.S. cavalry soldier blowing bugle. Rear view TLS U.S. cavalry trotting horses along Santa Fe Trail. TLSs grounds & buildings at American fort. TLS American flag flying from pole atop building at fort. Excellent panning TLS spanse of the Rocky Mountains, bright rainbow in FG.
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Nice LS antique steam engine locomotive train taking bend in tracks along semi-snowy landscape. TLS old railroad tracks in dry, hilly landscape (no train, tracks winding around bend). Subjective POV shot train traveling along RRX in wooded area. Reenactment LS westward migration, wagon train (covered wagons) traveling across plain. TLSs man-made land ruts along Santa Fe Trail. MS statue of male & female pioneers. Bas-relief of male pioneer with rifle. MS bronze statue of American Indian man kneeling at the feet of a white male missionary. Great low angle rear view MS wagon wheel, horse's hooves traveling away from cam. TLS covered wagon on display in backyard, pan right to man steering two yoked young cows. Reenactment MS/CUs blacksmith hammering hot iron on anvil, stoking fire w/ bellows. TLS two brown cows in yard. CU 126 lb barrel of sugar. MCU wooden crate of "Army Bread from the Union Mechanical Baking Company of Baltimore, MD."
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LSs antique paddlewheel steamboat sailing along river. MS horse pulling wagon through mud. Reenactment LS westward migration, wagon train on plain. LSs grassland prairie. Sideview MS whip being cracked. CUs horses, spoked wagon wheels. Panning LS low-lying clouds obscurring mountain. Panning TLS snow falling on trees. TLS wagon trail winding through forest. MSs bronze statue of pioneers. Panning TLS river, felled tree in water in FG. Panning TLS Platte River. TLS Sweetwater River. Panning LS Continental Divide & South Pass. Scenic LSs Big Sandy River, Valley of the Green, Valley of the Bear, Snake River, Columbia River, & Valley of the Willamette. Panning LS puffy clouds over prairie. LS Courthouse Rock & Jail Rock on the Oregon Trail. LS Chimney Rock in Nebraska. LS Scott's Bluff in NE. MSs Register Cliff, grafitti by passing settler's & pioneers. LS Independence Rock in Wyoming. TLS Devil's Gate. LS Split Rock. MSs Soda Springs in Idaho (bubbles rising to surface, following by shot of small spout of white water erupting). LSs Thousand Springs (waterfalls), ID. LS Beacon Rock & Columbia River. LS Mount Hood.
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Panning LS rolling prairie "bursting w/ flowers." Panning LS misty Laramie Mountains. Panning LSs barren desert plain. LSs alkali desert. MS brown puddle in alkai desert. MS abandoned wagon; CUs broken wheels. MS/CUs dead cow carcass on path, calcified skull erupting through largely intact hide. MSs abandoned steamer trunk, dresser, chair on Oregon Trail. MS horses hooves spalshing through river while pulling wagon. Views from reenactment of wagon train. Panning LS wagon train (in silhouette) stopped on plain, dusk. LS settlers (in silhouette) burying their dead during sunset, walking from fresh grave.
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High angle LS deep river valley. Tilting MS river. H/a water surface, gold-colored rocks in riverbed (implying the Gold Rush). MS two horses pulling wagon. MSs bronze statue of gold miners (prospectors). TLS early Mormon homestead in Utah, mtns in BG. TLS bronze statue of Mormon pioneers inc Brigham Young. Tilt down MS apple tree, Mormon homestead in BG. Archival photo of spike dedication at transcontinental meeting point of Central Pacific & Union Pacific railroads, 1869. LS antique steam engine locomotive train traveling across prairie. LSs train cutting swath through scenic valleys. MSs bronze statues of missionaries, pioneers & traders. Tilting (up) LS rainbow over cabin & mountain (cabin & mtn eventually out of frame). Panning LSs mountains (one snow covered, the other not). LS snowy valley, bluffs. Scenic LS rocky Eastern coast, choppy waves rolling in, houses on rocky hills in BG. LS scenic Pacific coast, placid water with large submerged rocks in silhouette during sunset. LS tide crashing against rocks, west coast.