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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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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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New Englishers, Coastal (cont.): The Cape and Martha's

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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Tug Hill and the Adirondacks - Pioneer Trail (appendix video), continued

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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Pioneer Trail appendix, continued: New York State, Part 2 -- At the Edges

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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The Colonies, Mother Virginia, and the Tidewater

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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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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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

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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