history lesson: The Awakening Land

 a miniseries about the early settlers in the Ohio Valley, starring Elizabeth Montgomery. 

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a reminder when they still told stories.

Based on Conrad Richter's The Awakening Land Trilogy. 

 Conrad Richter is best known for the novel the Light in the Forest which is a classic about culture clashes on the frontier, and how those captured and lived with the Indians often preferred their adopted family to the stricter life of the white family.

This is the Disneyfied version.

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