American Experience
Season 11 Episode 7 - Lost in the Grand Canyon
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
In the summer of 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran led the first expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. John Wesley Powell's epic journey into the unknown established the Grand Canyon as a national landmark, and made him a hero. But when he used his fame to argue against the overdevelopment of the West, Powell was attacked.
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America 1900
55 min
2
Race for the Superbomb
55 min
3
Hoover Dam
55 min
4
Alone on the Ice
55 min
5
Rescue at Sea
55 min
6
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
55 min
7
Lost in the Grand Canyon
55 min
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