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Life on the American Frontier

Step into Great Plains and western US settlements · 1845–1892 through its architecture, clothing, rituals and everyday life.

Physical routines of overland travel, ranching, frontier towns and Indigenous communities. Explore the tangible atmosphere of this setting: Wagon trains, log buildings, frontier inns and ranches. Practical travel clothes, settler and Indigenous material cultures. Social experience: Settlers, Indigenous nations, traders and coerced displacement. Everyday life: Camping, cooking, farming, transport and illness. Cultural life: Town saloons, folk music, community rituals. Editorial limits: Complement Historical Path on US westward expansion without repeating its military-event narrative.

08.1845 → 18922 guides éditoriaux8 titres sélectionnés
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A concise first immersion in the material culture and everyday spaces of this place and time.

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≥ 1h 43m · Durée inconnue pour 3 titres
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1 films · 0 documentation · 0 TV
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Era Immersion

Entering the era

Place and time: Great Plains and western US settlements · 1845–1892. Look for: Wagon trains, log buildings, frontier inns and ranches. Practical travel clothes, settler and Indigenous material cultures. Camping, cooking, farming, transport and illness. This is an atmosphere-led guide, not a reconstruction of actual events. Complement Historical Path on US westward expansion without repeating its military-event narrative.

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Era Immersion

On the trail

08.1845 → 10.1845

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Affiche : Meek's Cutoff
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Meek's Cutoff

2011filmfiction

HISTOIRE REPRÉSENTÉE 08.1845 → 10.1845

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Meek's Cutoff: Transport, supplies, travel logistics and environmental uncertainty on the Oregon Trail.

Travel, food, shelters and transport. Editorial limitation: Transport, supplies, travel logistics and environmental uncertainty on the Oregon Trail.

103 minIMDb 6.5 · 16.6K votes
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Affiche : 1883 — Saison 1
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1883 — Saison 1

2021saisonfiction

HISTOIRE REPRÉSENTÉE 1883

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1883 — Season 1: A wagon-train journey with close attention to hardship; romanticized perspectives require caution.

Travel, food, shelters and transport. Editorial limitation: A wagon-train journey with close attention to hardship; romanticized perspectives require caution.

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Era Immersion

Village and ranch

1865 → 1869

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Affiche : Hell on Wheels — Saison 1
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Hell on Wheels — Saison 1

2011saisonfiction

HISTOIRE REPRÉSENTÉE 1865 → 1869

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Hell on Wheels — Season 1: Railroad camps, labour and material frontier infrastructure; drama foregrounds conflict.

Work, housing and seasonal labour. Editorial limitation: Railroad camps, labour and material frontier infrastructure; drama foregrounds conflict.

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Era Immersion

Frontier towns

1884

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Affiche : Godless — Saison 1
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Godless — Saison 1

2017saisonfiction

HISTOIRE REPRÉSENTÉE 1884

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Godless — Season 1: Mining town buildings and local communities, with stylized western violence.

Trade, law, community institutions. Editorial limitation: Mining town buildings and local communities, with stylized western violence.

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