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Season 4 · Episode 20

The Great Comstock Silver Strike (October 29, 1873)

0.0February 26, 1956

Walter Cronkite hosts a TV recreation of the Great Comstock Silver Strike using many well known western TV character actors.

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Episode 1The Triumph of Louis Braille (May 25, 1847)
Episode 2The Last Day of an English Queen
Episode 3The Boston Massacre
Episode 4The Rescue of the American Prisoners from Santo Tomas
Episode 5Moscow Today
Episode 6The Secret Message That Plunged America Into World War I (March 1, 1917)
Episode 7Grant and Lee at Appomattox
Episode 8The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Episode 9The Hoax of Cardiff Giant (February 2, 1870)
Episode 10Bannister Wins the Mile Run
Episode 11Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin
Episode 12Spindletop: The First Great Texas Oil Strike
Episode 13The Chicago Fire
Episode 14Pierre and Marie Curie Discover Radium
Episode 15Washington Crosses the Delaware (December 25, 1776)
Episode 16Benedict Arnold's Plot Against West Point
Episode 17The Heroism of Clara Barton
Episode 18V-J Day
Episode 19Dr. Pinel Unchains the Insane
Episode 20The Great Comstock Silver Strike (October 29, 1873)
Episode 21When Stanley Finds Livingstone
Episode 22Berlin Airlift
Episode 23The Lost Battalion of World War I
Episode 24The Recovery of the Mona Lisa
Episode 25WIlliam Jennings Bryan's Presidential Nomination
Episode 26The Return of Halley's Comet
Episode 27Benjamin Franklin's Kite Experiment
Episode 28The Doolittle Raiders Take Off for Tokyo
Episode 29The Vote That Defeated Andrew Jackson for President
Episode 30Cyprus Today
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