THE AMERICAN TRAIL Genre: Documentary Created by: Nick Smeloff Starring: Don Jacks Country of origin: United States Language(s): English Executive Producer: Nick Smeloff / Don Jacks /Jim Smeloff Producer/Writer: Don Jacks / Holly Spence / Jackie Beavers Running time: 3:20 No. of episodes: 812 Original run: September 2, 1978 - September 19, 1983 Syndicated by: Smeloff Teleproductions of Denver, Colorado Synopsis: The American Trail is about the Americans who don't make the news. About you, us, them. About the American people. What they do. Where they live. How they work and how they play. A series that portrays America through her people. Sponsor(s): Farmland Industries At it's peak, the organization was the largest agricultural cooperative in North America, owned by 1,700 farm cooperatives in the United States, Canada and Mexico, which cooperatives were in turn owned by more than 600,000 farmer families. It had 16,000 employees in all 50 states and 90 countries. In 1977 it ranked #78 on the Fortune 100 company list. In 2001, its annual revenues were in excess of $11.8 billion. It was listed as one of Fortune's "most admired" companies. It ranked #170 on the Fortune List when it dissolved. Related Shows:The Nebraska Trail, American Snapshots, MenuAmerica
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The American Trail 260 television programs starring Don Jacks about the Americans who don't make the news. About you, us them. About the Amerian people. What they do. Where they live. How they work and how they play. A series that portrays America through her people. Brought tho you by Agway Inc. TAT is a series of grass-roots vignettes that celebrates the United States through its people. They are the people who farm the fertile valleys from the Niagara frontier to the Atlantic coast . . . the people who live in fishing villages from the coast of Maine to the Eastern Shore . . . in quiet hamlets from the Green Mountains to the hills of Pennsylvania.
The American Trail is part of a series designed as a repository of our times. A complete copy of The American Trail was presented by Smeloff Teleproductions to the Smithsonian Institution for preservation.
