In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt created the nation's first National Monument destination. The purpose was to preserve all of America's significant pieces of history. Now viewers can take a journey through the ecology, geology, and beauty of the Great Plains, the geologic West, and the historic South in an adventure never to be forgotten.

Title from container. Special features: Directions to monuments; Plains national monuments by date founded; Plains national monuments by state; Plains national monuments by president with biographies and pictures.

Disc one.Legacy of the Great Plains. Geologic wonders of the Northern Plains ; Sioux Indian wars ; Manifest destiny ; The Southern Plains -- The historic South. Prehistoric native Americans ; Southern Spanish colonies ; Slavery and the plantation system ; Civil War and the Confederacy -- disc 2. The geologic West. Fossil treasures of the Pacific Northwest ; The Pacific Northwest's Ring of Fire ; The historic Pacific Northwest ; The great biodiversity of the Pacific Northwest.