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America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

09/01/2005

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0hr 0min

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Documentary

STORY

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history. Prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, one of the major landscape features of North America was 240 million acres of tallgrass prairie. But between 1830 and 1900 - in the space of a single lifetime - the tallgrass prairie was steadily transformed to farmland. This drastic change in the landscape also brought about an enormous social change for Native Americans; in an equally short time their cultural imprint was reduced in essence to a handful of place-names appearing on maps. America's Lost Landscape examines the record of human struggle, triumph, and defeat that prairie history exemplifies, including the history and culture of America's aboriginal inhabitants. The story of how and why the prairie was changed by Euro-American settlement is thoughtfully nuanced.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Murphy Guyer
  • Annabeth Gish
  • John Trudell
  • Pauline Drobney
  • Dayton Duncan

    Director

  • David O'Shields

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • New Light Media

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Murphy Guyer

    Aldo Leopold (voice)

    Annabeth Gish

    Narrator

    John Trudell

    Black Hawk (voice)

    Pauline Drobney

    Self - Biologist

    Lance Foster

    Self - Landscape Historian

    Laura Jackson

    Self - Conservation Biologist

    Wes Jackson

    Self - Director, The Land Institute

    Carl Leopold

    Self - Botanist

    Eileen Schuyler

    Willa Cather (voice)

    Anton Treuer

    Self