Dreams and Dilemmas: Fort Scott and the Growth of a Nation

Fort Scott's movie Dreams and Dilemmas: Fort Scott and the Growth of a Nation tells about people that witnessed rapid westward expansion and experienced a nation torn apart by war.

The movie can be viewed online below. The total length is 23 minutes. The first embedded player shows the movie in its entirety. For those wishing to jump to a specific point in the movie, it is broken into segments below. Closed captioning and audio descriptions are available on all park films.

 

Duration:

23 minutes, 48 seconds

Fort Scott Movie-Dreams and Dilemmas. Unbroken, unabridged.

 

Duration:

2 minutes, 30 seconds

Introductory portion of "Fort Scott Movie-Dreams and Dilemmas."

 

Duration:

5 minutes, 37 seconds

Permanent Indian Frontier and Westward Expansion: This video segment comes from the film, "Fort Scott Movie-Dreams and Dilemmas."

 

Duration:

4 minutes, 18 seconds

Bleeding Kansas: This video segment comes from the film, "Fort Scott Movie-Dreams and Dilemmas."

 

Duration:

4 minutes, 57 seconds

Civil War: This video segment comes from the film, "Fort Scott Movie-Dreams and Dilemmas."

 

Duration:

2 minutes, 4 seconds

Railroad Expansion: This video segment comes from the film, "Fort Scott Movie-Dreams and Dilemmas."

 

Duration:

4 minutes, 33 seconds

Concluding portion of "Fort Scott Movie-Dreams and Dilemmas."