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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNIaP-6c6jU Maine ’s Atlantic coast shares a lot in common with Canada’s New Brunswick and Nova Scotia...

Mary Jemison, captured at age 12 by Native Americans (and French enablers), lived for many years in the Genesee Valley of western New...

New York State, Part III A review of the history and natural characteristics of the northernmost frontier of New York State, once the...

A second travel segment rounding up some of the historical and contemporary anecdotes unique to New York State and its vast region to the...

This is part 2 of an overview of the legacies of post-Revolutionary War Pennsylvania. I already addressed a strong German flavor within...

An anecdotal review of the legacy of the first colonies of the United States in photos, first focussing on the Mother of all States,...

Florida Wet 1: A photo essay depicting a day in the Suwannee River Basin, of Florida - a drain of Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. Appendix...

Indian Removal Legacy, Pioneer Trail continued “Mary Surratt's last words, spoken to a guard as he put the noose around her neck, were...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km8MEfGiEIY From Cape Hatteras and Cape Fear in the Carolinas to the coastal islands of Georgia, and...

Men like Davy Crockett and Hugh McGary represented different instincts as pioneers settled the American frontier of Tennessee and...

Interview with Dan Boone, Deceased This colonial account features the life of Daniel Boone, frontiersman and pioneer. Photography...

The second segment of the Northwest Indian War prior to the War of 1812 in the Ohio and Indiana territories. Featuring life/death Tecumseh.

Chapter 3 continues here with an overview of the West Virginia wilderness, featuring America's newest national park - the New River Gorge....