On the northern Great Plains of the United States, after major Native American and American military clashes in the later 19th century like the Fetterman Massacre, the Washita Massacre, Battle of the Little Bighorn, and numerous other events of treaties and treachery, the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry exerted another pivotal mass killing of Indians at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Lakota chief Spotted Elk, known as Big Foot, died on the frozen ground in the snow along with

[I have deviated a bit from the direct path of the Louis & Clark Expedition in this recent series of videos on the evolution of the...

In the 19th century, a sporadic warfare among Native American populations, including the Northern Plains tribes, increasingly shifted to...

Stay with the Journey: Lewis and Clark’s expedition of 1804-1806 created the initial corridor for the advance of American government...

The Black Hills of South Dakota were a sanctuary and meeting point for mostly Sioux (Lakota), Cheyenne and Kiowa indigenous inhabitants...

Our pioneer journey continues.   Evaluating the disposition of  the indigenous people and the lay of the land, so to speak, were primary...

The Corp of Discovery expedition to the Pacific in 1804-06 sought to befriend the indigenous peoples along the Missouri River and beyond....

Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark steered their boats upriver on the Missouri after a friendly meeting with Yankton Sioux.

The Corps of Discovery in late August 1804 approached the confluence of the Niobrara River and Missouri River near the border of today’s...

Sergeant Charles Floyd dies as Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark guide their 1804 expeditioners against the flow of the...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition continues north of the Platte River after meeting first representatives of Plains native Americans.

In July 1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark with their Corps of Discovery pushed and sailed up the Missouri River beyond abandoned...

In this video segment, the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) on the Missouri River has passed beneath the bluffs of Leavenworth,...

We have followed President Jefferson’s Corps of Discovery, led by Captains Lewis and Clark, to St. Louis (St. Charles) and some distance...

Lewis and Clark explorers sail/row/haul boats and supplies up the Missouri River from St. Charles toward Kansas in Spring 1804. ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition formally composed itself at St. Louis and Fort Dubois as winter set in 1803-1804.  The Louisiana Purchase...

Continuing float down the Ohio River, Lewis and Clark leave Louisville in late October intending to arrive in the St. Louis area at the...

Pioneer Trail (cont.): Meriwether Lewis at Big Bone Lick and then on to the Falls of the Ohio at Louisville.

Meriwether Lewis, Ohio River, Pittsburgh to Rising Sun

Lewis and Clark Expedition, Phase 1 Lewis's Preparations Our journey to the new Western frontier begins with  Meriwether Lewis’s...