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...

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

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...

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....

Pioneer Journey continues: The Ohio Country

The Pioneer Trail: Cowboys, Indians and Pilgrims (continued history of the colonization of N. America- Marietta, Ohio on the Ohio

YouTube: photospeak productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVStQV6uIsg The Ohio/Indiana Country (The Pioneer Trail, continued,...

Here I have added The Pioneer Trail: Cowboys, Indians and Pilgrims, Prologue and Chapter 1 (draft version, PDF). Previous blogs posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPu3v4cCbu4 This narrative focuses on the pre-revolutionary war period in American History that saw...

A gathering of ghosts, participants in the colonization of the eastern tidewater/New England US during the 18th century. The Pioneer Trail.