America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains

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America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains

Host Bo Svenson tours America’s Great Plains National Monuments. In 1906, President Teddy Roosevelt created the nation's first National Monument designation. The purpose of this designation was to preserve for all Americans significant pieces of the country's history, ecology, geology and beauty for all Americans. America's National Monuments tell the story of the nation's past and present glory. In Legacy of the Great Plains, viewers will visit the 10 monuments associated with America once vast grasslands. Each monument is presented in three chapters: virtual tour, nature and science, and history and culture.

Dry, brown grass and brush with crumbling rocks throughout and a flat-topped rocky hill in the background. Caption: punctuated by hills, badlands, and bluffs --

Person walking through low hills of green and brown shrubs and rock strewn in red soil. Caption: through the Texas Panhandle.

Rolling two-peaked hill and valley covered in trees. Caption: Inexplicably, Capulin Volcano is tree covered,

Rock formation rises sharply from evergreen tree covered ground to end in a narrowed flat-topped peak. Caption: (male narrator) There's nothing quite like it.

Gray-bearded man tilts head and parts lips in mid-speech. Orange-tinged landscape with large rock formation in background. Caption. Until its monument designation in 1954.

Sunlight fades behind trees, casting a field of yellow wildflowers in shadow. Caption. Commemorates and American ideal.

People standing on an overlook in a cave. Caption: Even the average tourist is an explorer in this cave--

Narrow river wends through lush green landscape. Caption. Male as narrator. On rolling hills that comprise the river valley.

Large barn next to small red buildings shrouded by trees beneath a dusky sky. Caption. Pipestone is a billion and a half-year-old.

Covered wagon is drawn by horses through a field. Man walking and a man riding a horse follow behind. Caption. And for the 5,000 immigrants traveling the Oregon Trail.