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American Experience

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The journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Mississippi River area from 1832-34, meticulously documenting in paintings and journals the landscape, plants and life of Native Americans.

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Episode 1: The Great San Francisco Earthquake

Episode 2: Radio Bikini

Episode 3: Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo

Episode 4: Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream

Episode 5: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

Episode 6: Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

Episode 7: Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close

Episode 8: Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

Episode 9: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited