Long Journey West: 1820.
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color Relates, through the narration of a boy's diary and folk music, a family's thousand-mile trip from Massachusetts to Illinois in 1820. Describes the preparations for the move and the emotions engendered as they leave that which is familiar to go to a new home that is unknown but offers the father a chance to own his own mill. Maps show the three roads west and the route they actually take. Pictures various means of overland transportation, types of accommodations, road conditions, toll roads, and corduroy roads. The trip is completed as the family uses a flatboat to travel down the Ohio River to the landing where friends meet them with a wagon to assist in transporting their goods to their new home.
Complete catalog record
Long Journey West: 1820. Indiana University Audio-Visual Center. 16 Min., Sd., Color, 16 Mm. © Indiana University; 16apr60; Mp11717.
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, format, color, sound, genre, catalog record
- Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education) — title, creator, length, description
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