Dayton Duncan

Writing

Dayton Duncan

Born

1949-09-03 (77)

Place of birth

Indianola, Iowa, USA

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Writing

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8 titles

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Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery poster
7.8

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery tells the remarkable story of the entire Corps of Discovery – not just of the two Captains, but the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark’s African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacajawea, who brought along her infant son. As important to the story as these many characters, however, was the spectacular land itself, and the promises it held.

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

1997

Mark Twain poster
7.1

Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.

Mark Twain

2002

Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit poster
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Burns’ Yosemite: A Gathering of Spirit, a documentary film produced to honor the 150th anniversary of the landmark act signed by Abraham Lincoln. This act preserved Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias.

Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit

2013

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip poster
7.7

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

2003

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie poster
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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.

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

2005

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Explore Yosemite National Park through its majestic landscapes and hidden history, uncovering the natural wonders that define this iconic place.

Yosemite: In Depth

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