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
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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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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Edgar David Boshart
Mar 181 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
Feb 11 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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Edgar David Boshart
Oct 14, 20231 min read
Tug Hill and the Adirondacks - Pioneer Trail (appendix video), continued
New York State, Part III A review of the history and natural characteristics of the northernmost frontier of New York State, once the...
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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
Apr 4, 20231 min read
The Colonies, Mother Virginia, and the Tidewater
An anecdotal review of the legacy of the first colonies of the United States in photos, first focussing on the Mother of all States,...
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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
Oct 17, 20221 min read
Pioneer Trail: Cowboys, Indians and Pilgrims -- Carolinas' Coastal and Atlantic Slave Trade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km8MEfGiEIY From Cape Hatteras and Cape Fear in the Carolinas to the coastal islands of Georgia, and...
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Edgar David Boshart
Jun 30, 20222 min read
Colonial Legacy East of the Mississippi
Men like Davy Crockett and Hugh McGary represented different instincts as pioneers settled the American frontier of Tennessee and...
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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
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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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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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
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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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
Jan 19, 20211 min read
Washington DC, January, 2021
Edgar Boshart Here is a photo essay composed yesterday based on a 2 hour walk around the west end of pre-inauguration Washington DC 2021....
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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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