Lewis & Clark Expedition, A Death and A Spirit Hill

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Lewis & Clark Expedition, A Death and A Spirit Hill

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

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Council at the Bluff, Lewis & Clark Expedition

Edgar David Boshart

Dec 16, 20241 min read

Council at the Bluff, Lewis & Clark Expedition

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

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Lewis and Clark. Approaching the Nebraska Territory on the Missouri River

Edgar David Boshart

Nov 21, 20241 min read

Lewis and Clark. Approaching the Nebraska Territory on the Missouri River

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

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Lewis and Clark Expedition Enter sthe Great Plains (1804)

Edgar David Boshart

Nov 7, 20241 min read

Lewis and Clark Expedition Enter sthe Great Plains (1804)

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

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Lewis and Clark Expedition, Missouri Bottoms, Boone’s Lick Country to the Kansas River

Edgar David Boshart

Oct 21, 20241 min read

Lewis and Clark Expedition, Missouri Bottoms, Boone’s Lick Country to the Kansas River

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

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Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804 (continues): The Missouri Bottoms Westerly

Edgar David Boshart

Sep 26, 20241 min read

Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804 (continues): The Missouri Bottoms Westerly

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

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Lewis and Clark (continuing journey): Fort Dubois, St. Louis and St. Charles. The Corps of Discovery Departs on the Missouri River West

Edgar David Boshart

Sep 10, 20241 min read

Lewis and Clark (continuing journey): Fort Dubois, St. Louis and St. Charles. The Corps of Discovery Departs on the Missouri River West

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

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Lewis and Clark. 1803 - St. Louis at Last!

Edgar David Boshart

Aug 27, 20241 min read

Lewis and Clark. 1803 - St. Louis at Last!

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

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Meriwether Lewis, Big Bone to Louisville

Edgar David Boshart

Aug 13, 20241 min read

Meriwether Lewis, Big Bone to Louisville

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

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Edgar David Boshart

Aug 2, 20241 min read

Pioneer Trail, Corps of Discovery, Phase 1 continued: Rising Sun on the Ohio River

Meriwether Lewis, Ohio River, Pittsburgh to Rising Sun

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Edgar David Boshart

Jul 10, 20241 min read

Pioneer Journey (Book 2), The Wild West

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

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Jefferson's Purchase (Corps of Discovery)

Edgar David Boshart

May 27, 20241 min read

Jefferson's Purchase (Corps of Discovery)

The Corps of Discovery was one of President Thomas Jefferson’s most memorable experiments. The 8,000-mile trek by boat, foot, and...

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Ungovernable Frontier, Part 3: Pushing Up and Past the Mississippi River

Edgar David Boshart

May 5, 20241 min read

Ungovernable Frontier, Part 3: Pushing Up and Past the Mississippi River

Between 1800 and Jefferson’s purchase of the Louisiana territory in 1803, the Europeans looked for ways to unload or reform the region.

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The Spaniard South, Part 2: Florida and the Gulf

Edgar David Boshart

Apr 24, 20241 min read

The Spaniard South, Part 2: Florida and the Gulf

The Ungovernable Journey, continues. Prelude to Lewis and Clark Corp. of Discovery to the West.

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The Spanish South, Part 1. A summary review of the political and swampy geographical circumstances influencing post-revolutionary American interest in obtaining Spanish lands in the southeastern US.

Edgar David Boshart

Apr 17, 20241 min read

The Spanish South, Part 1. A summary review of the political and swampy geographical circumstances influencing post-revolutionary American interest in obtaining Spanish lands in the southeastern US.

Spaniards and French each settled and controlled swaths of the Gulf Coast and even the vital port of New Orleans. American frontier...

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Edgar David Boshart

Mar 26, 20241 min read

David Crockett, A Frontiersman

Frontier settlers after the American Revolution, and even before, were generally suspicious of the powers wielded by the eastern...

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Edgar David Boshart

Mar 18, 20241 min read

The Ungovernable Frontier, continued

North American History. The eastern frontier. Ground for expansion to the Louisiana Territory

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Edgar David Boshart

Mar 5, 20241 min read

The Ungovernable Frontier, Part 2

As an introduction to my colonial history, Vol.2, this a brief continuation (Part 2) of a summation of some key places and events...

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The Ungovernable American Frontier, Part 1

Edgar David Boshart

Feb 26, 20241 min read

The Ungovernable American Frontier, Part 1

The American frontier in the eastern United States after the revolutionary war was the staging ground for the next phase of the...

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New Englishers, Coastal (cont.): The Cape and Martha's

Edgar David Boshart

Feb 1, 20241 min read

New Englishers, Coastal (cont.): The Cape and Martha's

This is my final segment of a photo-rich Book 1 survey of North American colonial history, until the be beginning of the 19th century...

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