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Going Home (1920-1933)

Season 1 Episode 4 | 1hr 56m 43s

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.

Aired: 04/24/16
Major funding is provided by General Motors, Evelyn & Walter Haas,Jr. Fund, CPB; Bank of America; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; Park Foundation, Inc; PBS; National Park Foundation; The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Extras
Explore the beauty and grandeur of our nation’s magnificent parks.
Examine the proliferation of protected lands and the protection of predatory animals.
Learn about the changes to the national parks during the Great Depression and WWII.
Examine the proliferation of protected lands and the protection of predatory animals.
Learn about the changes to the national parks during the Great Depression and WW II.
Encounter the growing numbers of visitors to the parks.
Discover efforts to protect the parks and the fight over the Grand Canyon.
Investigate the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt and others to preserve pristine lands.
Examine the radical idea of creating national parks for the enjoyment of everyone.
The story of an idea as American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical.
Examine the proliferation of protected lands and the protection of predatory animals.
Learn about the changes to the national parks during the Great Depression and WWII.
Learn about the federal agency created to protect the parks.
Investigate the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and others to protect the land.
Examine the radical idea of creating national parks for the enjoyment of everyone.