![]() ![]() Pasquinel and McKeag return to Lame Beaver's village. After Pasquinel saves McKeag's life, the two agree to become partners. His financing now secured, Pasquinel heads west and meets up with Alexander McKeag (Richard Chamberlain), a Scottish-born trapper captured by the Pawnee. Pasquinel later marries Bockweiss's daughter Lise (Sally Kellerman) to gain the merchant's good graces. Without money, he is introduced by a surgeon to Herman Bockweiss (Raymond Burr), a Bavarian immigrant merchant and silversmith, and goes to him looking for backing. Pasquinel manages to return to Saint Louis with an arrow in his spine. The beaver pelts that he acquired from the Arapaho and his remaining trade goods are stolen when he is attacked by members of the Pawnee and he is later left for dead in a fight with river pirates. Pasquinel (Robert Conrad) is a French Canadian fur trader who has gone out to the Rocky Mountains to trade for beaver pelts. The tribe has discovered gold in the streams of northern Colorado, but not knowing the value that whites place on it, they consider it little more than a curiosity. ![]() By the end of the 18th century, Lame Beaver's band is camped along the South Platte River and encounter white trappers for the first time. A young Arapaho boy named Lame Beaver grows up and becomes a great warrior after a single handed raid on a local tribe brings horses to the tribe for the first time enabling the Arapaho to become part of the great plains horse culture. The story begins in the mid-18th century among the Indian tribes of what is now northern Colorado. cite web | title=Centennial:: New York Times Review | Work=New York Times reviews | url= |accessdate= ] Centennial was released on DVD on July 29, 2008. ![]() It had a then huge budget of US$25 million, employed four directors and five cinematographers, and featured over 100 speaking parts spanning 26 hours of television viewing time. The miniseries was one of the longest (26½ hours including commercials) and most ambitious television projects ever attempted at the time. Its star-studded cast includes Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad, Richard Crenna, Timothy Dalton, Andy Griffith, Mark Harmon, Gregory Harrison, Alex Karras, Brian Keith, Lynn Redgrave, Robert Vaughn, Anthony Zerbe, Stephanie Zimbalist, and numerous other well-known actors. Although Michener began his novel in prehistory, the series itself begins with Chapter 5 of the book which is entitled "The Yellow Apron". The miniseries follows the history of the area of the fictional town of Centennial, Colorado from the late 18th century to the 1970s. The miniseries was produced by John Wilder. It was based on the novel of the same name by James A. "Centennial" is a 12-episode American television miniseriesthat aired on NBC from October 1978 to February 1979. ![]()
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