Lone Cone Library

"Take a 2,000-mile journey with the pioneers that braved The Oregon Trail ... See rare photos, hear diary excerpts and watch stunning footage in this award-winning film, previously viewed on public television"--container.

Uses family journals, newspaper accounts and interviews with historians and descendants of the party to recreate the drama of the ill-fated 1846 expedition to California in which the travellers were trapped by snow and forced into cannibalism to survive.

After a wagon train hires Stephen Meek to guide them through part of the Oregon trail, they begin to doubt Meek knows the way and they must decide whether or not to trust a Native American man instead.

Join Irish philosopher and poet John O'Donohue on a journey through the sacred landscapes of Western Ireland. Weaving ancient wisdom with personal history and breathtaking imagery, this documentary reveals a deeper Ireland, far beyond the usual travelogues"--Container.

Examines the building of the transcontinental railroad, from several angles: its financing by enterprising and unscrupulous entrepreneurs; its creation by determined, inventive engineers; its backbreaking construction by laborers from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds; and its devastating impact on the Native Americans whose land the project plowed through.