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In a conversation with us several years ago, the Kiowa poet N. Scott
Momaday remarked that the American West "is a place that has to
be seen to be believed, and it may have to be believed in order
to be seen." For five years we have travelled that landscape, photographed
its vistas, talked to its people, sought out its history, all as
part of our production of THE WEST, an eight-part documentary series
for public television.
Now -- 100,000 air-miles and 72 filmed interviews
and 74 visits to archives and collections and more than 250 hours
of film later -- we have begun to understand at least something
of what Momaday meant. (continued....)
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