The film titled 'Time of the West' shows the geography of the Western United States and includes accounts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803–1806), headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to the Pacific coast and back. Mountainous terrain and the Missouri River in Montana. View of surrounding terrain and cliffs from a moving boat on the Missouri River. Reflection of cliffs in river water. Cloud formations in the sky. Panoramic view of lightening and rain clouds over mountains. Submerged trees in water. A cloud formation around the mountains. Water of the Columbia River flowing and falling over cliffs. Waves crash over rocks on the Pacific coast. Houses made up of tree logs. Rocky shores in Oregon.
Copper smelting factory in McGill, Nevada. Smoke rises from smokestacks. Mountains from the Egan Range in the background. Copper smelter factories in Garfield, Utah, Douglas, Arizona and Anaconda, Montana.
Workers inspect and stir hot copper kept in a storage ladle of a smelting factory. Molten copper is poured from a ladle. Casting copper anodes at a smelting factory in Montana. Hot copper flows into a ladle. The hot copper is poured into casts. Casts moving in conveyer belt. Utah smelting factory casting blister copper. Man inspects hot copper in ladle. Water sprays cool down cast bars. The copper cast bars are elevated to a platform. Men taking copper casts for shipment.
The Corner of Madison and State Streets in Chicago, Illinois. The busiest corner in Chicago. Trolley cars crowding the streets and pedestrians filling the sidewalks and crossing the streets. Hundreds of shoppers. Several persons carry signs through the crowds, advertising Boating at Electric Park. (Edison Company film)
Shows the private electric railway of Armour & Co. in the packing company's Chicago yards. Electric trolley passes along tracks. Men stand on the electric trolley, which is filled with. Cartons. (Filmed by Edison Company)
Sheep run in stockyard, Chicago, Illinois. A large flock of sheep run down a ramp to the stockyard slaughter pens.