Duncan, Dayton

Mark Twain by Ken Burns( Visual )

23 editions published between 2001 and 2017 in English and German and held by 1,553 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recounts Mark Twain's life, told primarily through his own words

Horatio's drive : America's first road trip by Ken Burns( Visual )

22 editions published between 2003 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent, a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than 3 months

The Dust Bowl : an illustrated history by Dayton Duncan( Book )

8 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 1,342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For almost a decade, a devastating combination of drought, wind, and poor farming practices turned millions of acres of the Great Plains into a wasteland. Ceaseless "black blizzards," turned night into day, killed crops and livestock, threatened the lives of small children, and buried homesteaders' hopes under huge dunes of dirt. The authors tell the story through private letters, newspaper accounts, and vivid interviews conducted with dozens of survivors -- the last living witnesses of the Dust Bowl, who provide scaring details of their families' ordeals. More than 300 archival photos, some from acclaimed photographers and some -- never before published -- from amateur locals, help bring this critical period to life, when the forces of greed, misinformation, and wishful thinking conspired to nearly sweep away the breadbasket of the nation. Here are stories of incredible hardship: More than 850 million tons of topsoil blew away in a single year; 14 million grasshoppers per square mile descended on parched fields; and one-quarter of the region's inhabitants packed up and left. But the Dust Bowl is also about the courage and resilience of those who remained to save their farms and their families. A larger narrative emerges: A morality tale about our relationship to the land, a study of the role and limits of government, and an affirmation of the human capacity for heroic perseverance through the crucible of drought, Depression, and dust

Country music( Visual )

7 editions published in 2019 in English and held by 1,048 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ken Burns chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, rising from the experiences of remarkable people in distinctive regions of the nation. From its roots in ballads, hymns, and the blues to its mainstream popularity, viewers will follow the evolution of country music over the course of the twentieth century as it eventually emerged to become America's music. Features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more than 80 country music artists

Country music by Dayton Duncan( Book )

4 editions published in 2019 in English and held by 897 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Country music emerged from the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today. But above all, it is the story of the musicians: Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life; Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood; Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere, and many more -- adapted from jacket

Miles from nowhere : tales from America's contemporary frontier by Dayton Duncan( Book )

13 editions published between 1993 and 2000 in English and held by 834 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The author set out in his battered truck to explore the frontier--an area with fewer than two people per square mile--where he met a collection of unforgettable Americans and discovered ironic and surprising comparisons with the past

The West : an illustrated history for children by Dayton Duncan( Book )

4 editions published between 1995 and 1996 in English and held by 828 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A presentation, based on a PBS tevevision documentary of the story of the West, a magnificent but harsh landscape and the people who have tried to claim it

People of the West by Dayton Duncan( Book )

4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 711 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tells the stories of fifteen men and women whose individual experiences provide a representative picture of life during the formative years of the American West

Lewis & Clark : the journey of the Corps of Discovery( Visual )

1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 535 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tells the story of the most important expedition in American history, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Includes the stories of the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who went with them

The national parks. America's best idea( Visual )

10 editions published between 2009 and 2015 in English and held by 419 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Following World War II, the parks are overwhelmed as visitation reaches 62 million people a year. A new billion-dollar campaign: Mission 66 is created to build facilities and infrastructure that can accommodate the flood of visitors. A biologist named Adolph Murie introduces the revolutionary notion that predatory animals, which are still hunted, deserve the same protection as other wildlife. In Florida, Lancelot Jones, the grandson of a slave, refuses to sell to developers his family's property on a string of unspoiled islands in Biscayne Bay and instead sells it to the federal government to be protected as a national monument. In the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter creates an uproar in Alaska when he sets aside 56 million acres of land for preservation, the largest expansion of protected land in history. In 1995, wolves are re-established in Yellowstone, making the world's first national park a little more like what it once was