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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Edgar David Boshart
Mar 261 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
Sep 26, 20231 min read
Pioneer Trail appendix, continued: New York State, Part 2 -- At the Edges
A second travel segment rounding up some of the historical and contemporary anecdotes unique to New York State and its vast region to the...
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Edgar David Boshart
Feb 21, 20221 min read
Shooting Star and The Prophet
The second segment of the Northwest Indian War prior to the War of 1812 in the Ohio and Indiana territories. Featuring life/death Tecumseh.
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Edgar David Boshart
Aug 2, 20212 min read
World Class: Timeless Travels with Ed
MP4 video World Class edgardavidboshart “Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other...
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Edgar David Boshart
May 17, 20210 min read
The Ohio/Indiana Country: Marietta - first official Trans-Appalachian Settlement
The Pioneer Trail: Cowboys, Indians and Pilgrims (continued history of the colonization of N. America- Marietta, Ohio on the Ohio
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Edgar David Boshart
Feb 19, 20213 min read
The Indiana/Ohio Country: part 1, The Ohio Company
YouTube: photospeak productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVStQV6uIsg The Ohio/Indiana Country (The Pioneer Trail, continued,...
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Edgar David Boshart
Sep 17, 20201 min read
Town Hall of the Departed 1810
A gathering of ghosts, participants in the colonization of the eastern tidewater/New England US during the 18th century. The Pioneer Trail.
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Edgar David Boshart
Aug 10, 20201 min read
Revolutionary Fever and Crawford's Dance of Death
Two of possibly the most evil incidents in eastern US frontier history.
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Edgar David Boshart
Jun 10, 20201 min read
Pioneer Trail (continuing series): Gold, Slaves and Aristocrats
History of North America, continued
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edgardavidboshart
May 1, 20201 min read
Pioneer Trail Continued: Prayers for Scalps
America's early colonization brought drastically different initial opinions and interactions between the settlers and the native...
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Edgar David Boshart
Nov 26, 20191 min read
Cowboy and Indian (Part 1 of The American Pioneer Trail)
https://youtu.be/FEsQD4Q1_6M (Video, 10 minutes) tap arrow photo (Part 1, Introduction) The beginning of an exploration of the...
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Edgar David Boshart
Aug 22, 20191 min read
New Scotland. Blog 15
VIDEO Tap photo for YouTube presentation........ Narrative I appreciate universities, colleges, and ivory towers of learning –- freedom...
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edgardavidboshart
Apr 29, 20193 min read
Solo Around the World, Josh!
Again, I offer a half-hearted disclaimer. The following is not an entirely fictional or non-fictional account. Jeb (my alter ego) and...
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edgardavidboshart
Apr 19, 20193 min read
Last Voyages of an Amishman and a Sailor - Menno's Folks (Blog 8)
https://youtu.be/eN8jc-5Wy8I Menno’s Folks. The Mennonites are a pie of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after a Frisian priest —...
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edgardavidboshart
Mar 21, 20192 min read
Final Journey: Old and Young
While an older gentleman (sans gentle) now, I think myself young and ageless. However, I am reminded on every side that I am “mature,”...
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edgardavidboshart
Jan 30, 20192 min read
Beginning of the Last Journey Prologue 1
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uTRd5f9Q2g&t=80s My path courses along the edges of the battle(s), like that of a war correspondent. I...
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edgardavidboshart
Dec 10, 20184 min read
Vietnam Redo: Emperors and Gods
(Hue, Vietnam, part 2) Emperors and gods are sometimes (usually!) indistinguishable. In Asia, and especially looming China, central...
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edgardavidboshart
Dec 5, 20183 min read
Vietnam Redo: The Way to Hue ("way")
The Perfume River (Sông Hương or Hương Giang; 香江) crosses the city of Huế, in the central Vietnamese province of Thừa Thiên-Huế Province....
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 2, 20185 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 4): War Paint
At one time, in the last century, Americans dabbed charcoal-tinted war paint on their faces and attempted to subdue a combined imperial...
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