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- A New York City attorney and his wife attempt to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville.
- A film about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'Free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the American Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters, and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of 'Savages' - exterminating all Native Americans. But there is hope when the band find a new beginning.
- More than half a million students live in California's rural areas. The challenges they face at home often spill over to school: chronic absenteeism, high suspension rates, lack of college preparation, and limited access to technology. EdSource takes a closer look in its first documentary.
- Bashful hero lets Eastern party headed by his aunt run his ranch until girl with whom he is in love is in danger. He then asserts his rights and prevents kidnapping of girl by bandits.
- Trees are earth's largest organisms and are also one of the planet's oldest inhabitants. Seasonal forests (unlike tropical rain-forest) the largest land habitats. A third of all trees grow in the endless taiga of the Arctic north. Northern America has forests that include California's sequoia's, the earth's largest trees. There and elsewhere, their vast production of photosynthesis and shade presides over a seasonal cycle of life and involves countless plant and animal species.
- Huell tours two neat, but extremely different, houses where nobody lives now: the public, grand Victorian house which was the governor's mansion from 1903 to 1967, and a one-room cabin that was the very private home of a bona fide hermit.
- Huell attends the centennial of Colonel Charles Young's tenure as superintendent at Sequoia National Park. Festivities include the rededication of the long-forgotten Booker T. Washington Tree which Young had named in his honor in 1903.
- Huell goes to Allensworth, established in 1908 and a state historic park since 1976. It was California's only town founded, financed, and governed by African Americans. Then he tours old and new Kernville as residents share their memories.
- Huell goes to Sequoia National Forest to visit historic Buck Rock Fire Lookout perched on sheer granite at 8,502 ft. Established in 1912, this lookout was one of the first in the Sierra Nevada and in 1923 became the first live-in lookout.