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Council at the Bluff, Lewis & Clark Expedition

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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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Meriwether Lewis, Big Bone to Louisville

Edgar David Boshart

Aug 131 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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Ungovernable Frontier, Part 3: Pushing Up and Past the Mississippi River

Edgar David Boshart

May 51 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 241 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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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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Penn's Country 2 (Pennsylvania: People Power)

Edgar David Boshart

Aug 8, 20231 min read

Penn's Country 2 (Pennsylvania: People Power)

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

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Edgar David Boshart

Feb 6, 20231 min read

Florida Wet I: A day in the Suwannee River Basin

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

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Edgar David Boshart

Dec 8, 20221 min read

Osage Squeeze

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

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Edgar David Boshart

Jun 6, 20221 min read

Interview with Dan Boone, Deceased

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

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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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West Virginia: Pioneer Trail (continues)

Edgar David Boshart

Nov 18, 20213 min read

West Virginia: Pioneer Trail (continues)

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

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Parkersburg, West Virginia on the Ohio River: Ghostly Legacy

Edgar David Boshart

Oct 25, 20211 min read

Parkersburg, West Virginia on the Ohio River: Ghostly Legacy

Pioneer Journey continues: The Ohio Country

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The Ohio/Indiana Country: Marietta - first official Trans-Appalachian Settlement

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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The Indiana/Ohio Country: part 1, The Ohio Company

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

Jan 27, 20211 min read

The Pioneer Trail: Cowboys, Indians and Pilgrims (prologue and chapter 1, pdf text)

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

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The Illinois Country: He Speaks the Regular Way

Edgar David Boshart

Jan 26, 20211 min read

The Illinois Country: He Speaks the Regular Way

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

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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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