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...discovered, in the still nomadic Indian tribes, a world adying, and saw in the lonely plains and mountains a new testing ground. Outstanding was Albert Bierstadt, whose monumental views of the Rockies, with their Wagnerian thunder and soaring rainbows , earned him $35,000 a canvas. But so rapidwas the conquest of the continent that even the Bierstadt outlived his epoch. By the time of his death in 1902; artistic concert was already shifting from the grandeur of the West to cityscapes, from God given wilderness to man-made America...
AMERICANS ON EVEREST (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Orson Welles narrates a report on the conquest of Mount Everest by an American team, as seen in on-the-spot film footage. Color...
They acted stupidly. Why did neither one of them think of using the gasoline or the cigarette lighter from the car to get a fire going? Yet millions of people nowadays, claims Author Cord Christian Troebst (Conquest of the Sea) would have behaved just as ineffectually. In this brisk compendium, Author Troebst recounts a number of harrowing adventure stories and gives some ingenious advice on the art of survival...
Congress in 1924 capped the conquest of the American Indian by granting U.S. citizenship to all Indians born from that year on. Until then, tribal Indians had been considered "wards of the Government." But the gesture by no means fully extended the U.S. Constitution to about 70% of the country's Indians-the 380,000 tribal members who now live on 399 reservations and enclaves maintained by the Federal Government...
...already 135 yds. in front, and there he stayed. He set a new lap record on the first go-around (98.7 m.p.h.), then successively improved it on the next two laps (100.4 m.p.h.), broke it again on the tenth (101.1 m.p.h.). Sensing that they were witnessing a truly masterly conquest, the 300,000 spectators cheered tumultuously whenever Clark whizzed past...