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Before the 1880s it was an insult to call someone a cowboy. Buffalo Bill Cody and Teddy Roosevelt, The Real American Cowboy explains, finally made cowboys respectable. This volume of the three-tape set Redsicovering America also discusses cowboy poets and black, Hispanic, and female cowboys, and sifts through romanticized images to look at real cowboys, past and present. Narrated in a chatty, personable style by Roger Kennedy, director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, this series also features music and interviews with everyday people to help convey the mood of each topic. Railroads, Robbers & Rebels explains that Chicago had five time zones until the railroad necessitated the current national time zone system. It also covers Chinese workers, robber barons, railroad monopolies, and gandy dancers. These two volumes provide a well-informed, albeit highly simplified, survey of the importance of the railroad and cowboys in American history. The third volume, Indians Among Us, attempts to trace the 10,000-year history of over 600 Native American Indian nations in 45 minutes, and although the Anasazi, Choctaw, and Coushatta peoples are discussed in some detail, Kennedy's use of Chaucer to convince the viewer that Native Americans were not primitive comes off disingenuously. --Tara Chace
| ACTORS: | Rediscovering America |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1994 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Discovery Communication |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Box set, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Documentary |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 3 |
| UPC: | 723338953137 |