Ken Burns: The West - 'The Speck of the Future'
British iTunes Chart Performance
"The Speck of the Future": Chart Statistics
- Release date: 17 Sep 1996
- Chart debut: #52 (03 Aug 2024)
- Highest Position: #52 (03 Aug 2024)
- Most recent chart position: #52 (03 Aug 2024)
- Days on UK TV Episodes Chart: 2
'The Speck of the Future' has charted in the following countries:
United Kingdom and Australia.
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Episode Synopsis: The Speck of the Future
in 1848 a sawmill worker named james marshall reached down into the stream bed of the american river in california -- and came up with the future of the west in the palm of his hand he had discovered gold...
...the next year alone more than 50000 fortune-seekers swarmed into the sierra nevada in a headlong scramble for riches like many 49ers william swain left his home and family to endure hardships and disappointments for a pocketful of rocks wild mining camps with names like whiskey diggings grizzly flat and murders' bar sprang up -- and then disappeared with each new strike a once-sleepy village on a magnificent bay changed overnight into the thriving international city of san francisco; a merchant declared himself emperor of north america; and a shrewd mormon shopkeeper became the gold rush's first millionaire but with the overwhelming influx of americans thousands of indians were killed in the pursuit of land and slave labor foreign miners were coerced from mining and mexican-americans lost their land the gold rush changed the west forever
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