The National Parks: America's Best Idea - Season 1 Episode 4 Going Home (1920 – 1933)
While visiting the parks was once predominantly the domain of Americans wealthy enough to afford the high-priced train tours, the advent of the automobile allows more people than ever before to visit the parks. Mather embraces this opportunity and works to build more roads in the parks. Some park enthusiasts, such as Margaret and Edward Gehrke of Nebraska, begin "collecting" parks, making a point to visit as many as they can. In North Carolina, Horace Kephart, a reclusive writer, and George Masa, a Japanese immigrant, launch a campaign to protect the last strands of virgin forest in the Smoky Mountains by establishing it as a park. In Wyoming, John D. Rockefeller Jr. begins quietly buying up land in the Teton Mountain Range and valley in a secret plan to donate it to the government as a park.
Year: 2009
Genre: Documentary
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Studio: PBS
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Cast: Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Peter Coyote, Amy Madigan, Tom Hanks, Murphy Guyer
Crew: Ken Burns (Director), Ken Burns (Producer), Julie A. Dunfey (Producer), Dayton Duncan (Writer)
First Air Date: Sep 27, 2009
Last Air date: Oct 02, 2009
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 6 Episode
Runtime: 120 minutes
IMDb: 7.90/10 by 22.00 users
Popularity: 3.305
Language: English
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