Word: 1870s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell as two tough-talking, hard-living brothers who settle in southern Arizona in the 1870s, up against Apaches and Mexican bandits. Premiere...
...evoked violent reactions, many of which were instigated in the mid-1800s by the original Know-Nothings and their many later imitators. Immigrant groups themselves battled with one another, caught up in ethnic feuds. Above all, the American labor movement was the most violent in the world. From the 1870s to the 1930s, bloody battles between strikers and company cops or state militia were frequent. Labor leaders often deliberately used violence to dramatize the workers' plight-and, in time, they succeeded. On the fringes of the movement were some odd secret organizations, including the Molly Maguires, a band...
PROJECT 20 (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "End of the Trail," the last stand of the Great Plains Indians against the white man's encroaching civilization in the 1870s. Spliced together from historic photographs and current films of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana. Walter Brennan does the narration...
...MONROES (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Five orphaned youngsters, from six to 18, struggle to survive and establish a homestead in the Wyoming wilderness of the 1870s. Michael Anderson Jr. and Barbara Hershey head the doughty band...
...mountainous spine of Corsica is traversed only by a Toonerville-style railroad, the Micheline, which looks out on ruined citadels, deserted villages and scarred forests. Once rich in timber (pine, chestnut, cork trees), Corsica has been hard-hit by forest fires. Population has drained from 300,000 in the 1870s to 170,000 today. Ajaccio, the capital, is a cluster of quaint but quaking buildings, though a scattering of new apartments is rising beyond the old perimeter...