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Westward expansion trails. In the history of the American frontier, pioneers built overland trails throughout the 19th century, especially between 1840 and 1847 as an alternative to sea and railroad transport. These immigrants began to settle much of North America west of the Great Plains as part of the mass overland migrations of the mid-19th ...
O Pioneers! " is a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman. It was first published in Drum-Taps in 1865. The poem was written as a tribute to Whitman's fervor for the great Westward expansion in the United States that led to things like the California Gold Rush and exploration of the far west .
Daniel Boone (November 2 [O.S. October 22], 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies.
I've read a collection of diaries, letters and memoirs by women, who in the 1840s went by covered wagons west to their new homes, mostly in Oregon. The trials and tribulations pioneers experienced ...
Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker erected this boulder near Pacific Springs on Wyoming's South Pass in 1906. [ 1] The historic 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [ 2] Oregon Trail connected various towns along the Missouri River to Oregon's Willamette Valley. It was used during the 19th century by Great Plains pioneers who were seeking fertile land in the ...
John Brant Fairchild. . . ( m. 1865) . Children. Mary Elizabeth Fairchild (adopted) Olive Ann Oatman (September 7, 1837 – March 21, 1903) was a White American woman celebrated in her time for her slavery and later release by Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she was a teenager. [ 1] She later lectured about her experiences.
Narrow covered wagon used by west-bound Canadian settlers c. 1885 Painting showing a wagon train of covered wagons. A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, [1] or prairie schooner, [2] is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon with a canvas top used for transportation or hauling. [3] The covered wagon has become a cultural icon of the ...
The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah. At the time of the planning of the exodus in ...