Jim Bridger Essay Jim Bridger was born in March 17,1804 in Richmond,Virginia, Lewis and Clark started their epic western expedition two months before Jim Bridger was born. Bridger headed west along with the routes that Lewis and Clark pioneered. Then twenty years past and Jim Bridger became one of the most important Mountain men of the 19th century. Overall Bridger became famous in history for being a memorable and brave mountain men.
Capt. Cole liked what he heard, so he bought a team of Bif Norman horses, packed his stuff in a peddler's wagon, and left for Peoria in September of 1835. When he arrived in Peoria he started a store on Water Street. A man by the name Gardner Barker clerked for him and Cole the store to Barker two years after it opened. Mr. Cole was a passenger on a steamboat called the Frontier which was captained by Henry Detwiller.
Dennis Bryd Obituary Dennis Bryd died on October 16, 2016. In a head on collision near Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also had a 12-year-old boy passenger which was taking with multiple injuries. The other boy in the other car was also taking to the hospital with many injurries.
I 'm not so familiar with Pike, but I can tell you all you want to know about Lewis and Clark. When Napoleon needed money, he sold Jefferson the Louisiana Purchase, which he had acquired when he conquered Spain (the Spanish were not amused). To find out what he 'd just purchased, Jefferson sent Merriweather Lewis and William Clark (the brother of George Rogers Clark) to explore it. It covered an area from Louisiana northward to Missouri and across the biggest part of the Great Plains and Northwest. The team which went with them included such diverse people as Sacajawea, a Shosone Indian and her baby (nicknamed "Pompey" by Lewis), Lewis 's slave, French trappers, woodsmen, and other interpreters.
It was thomas jefferson's newly owned land and his will to explore it he decided to send explorers across it in which he named the corps of discovery. The heads of the group were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. When starting the expedition meriwether lewis bought many gifts for the indians such as beads, coats, fabrics, and hats that could hopefully help convince the indians to be relatively good friends with the explorers and our country. When the expedition started exploring in 1803 they started down the Mississippi river on three ships and didn’t run into any american indians. as they traveled they learned about many new things such as minerals and plants so far unknown to science and eventually sent a care package back to president Jefferson on one of the three ships to show him all the new scientific discoveries that the expedition had made.
Chief Osceola was a very respected warrior and chief in the Seminole tribe in Florida. He led his tribe away from the Indian removal thought of by Andrew Jackson. His name is even respected today, over two hundred years later. There is even a small city named after him in Indiana.
He set up a dam on a portion of the river and established a grist mill along with a blacksmith shop. James and Gilbert Clark also settled in the same vicinity with him and set up a salt works. Not long after they were settled, the U.S. government declared that the land they settled was part of Indian Territory and not in the territory of Arkansas. James, the Clark brothers, and other settlers had to move to other lands. James decided to move back to Washington(Joshua Williams).
Perhaps the biggest challenge of writing this book: finding the mistakes made by the Corps of Discovery. The expedition of Lewis, Clark, and the rest of the Corps of Discovery is one of the most revered stories of American history. Nonetheless, everyone is prone to mistakes, even Lewis and Clark. A fatal mistake, one which could’ve ended in the Corps of Discovery being lost to history if they had been stuck just a bit longer, was the choice to venture through Bitterroot Mountains.
David Thompson was a brave explorer, astronomer, historian, mapmaker, but most of all the original trailblazer. He is known as the greatest land geographer of all time, but has little recognition. His expedition during the fur trade took him from Hudson's Bay to the pacific ocean. During his life,he travelled over 90,000km and mapped 3.9 million kilometers squared. He used various means to cover this journey which included canoe and map Over the 28 years in the fur trade business he took many notes.
His years of living off the land paid off with the writing of The Frontiersman; it contains factual information combined with some fictional situations making it exciting and interesting while, at the same time, giving the reader many situations which help to understand a lot about the history of a young United States between the French and Indian War and the War of 1812. The author uses a dialogue between the two main characters, Simon Kenton (a Kentucky frontiersman and Tecumseh (the leader of the Shawnee Indians) to keep the story flowing and full of adventures. The book tells of the differences between the white settlers and the Indians, and it highlights battles and challenges told from both perspectives. There was danger and injustice which confronted them daily, yet they maintained a certain respect for each other.
His middle name is Montgomery in honor of the war hero, Richard Montgomery. When Zebulon was 14 his father became commander of fort Washington near the Ohio river.in 1801, Zebulon married Clarisa Harley brown.in 1803, president Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from France. In 1805, general James Wilkinson ordered Zebulon to find the source of the Mississippi river and take notes of the native Americans. Zebulon pike tried climbing the 14,168-foot-tall mountain, now named after him (pikes peak). Zebulon and his men were captured by Spanish authorities thinking they were spies.
Into the Wild Summer Reading Assignment Passage: “April 27th, 1992 Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory.
The Shoshone was a Native American tribe in the western Great Basin in the United States. This tribe was spread into the north and east Idaho and Wyoming. The Shoshone religion was Shoshone rituals. Their population was approximately 8000 members at first, but their population began to increase about 20,000 members. There were three classes in Shoshone tribe, which were the chief and shaman, trading partners, and the servants.
The Shoshone Native Americans began Migrating to the Plains around the 1500’s. They occupied the Great Basin region, from Southern Idaho to Death Valley, and from the Smith Creek Mountains to Ely, Nevada. Their homeland was named Pia Sokopia, which meant “Earth Mother”. The valley floors the inhabit lie at around 4-6,000 feet, and the surrounding
The Alaskan Bush is one of the hardest places to survive without any assistance, supplies, skills, and little food. Jon Krakauer explains in his biography, Into The Wild, how Christopher McCandless ventured into the Alaskan Bush and ultimately perished due to lack of preparation and hubris. McCandless was an intelligent young man who made a few mistakes but overall Krakauer believed that McCandless was not an ignorant adrenalin junkie who had no respect for the land. Krakauer chose to write this biography because he too had the strong desire to discover and explore as he also ventured into the Alaskan Bush when he was a young man, but he survived unlike McCandless. Krakauer’s argument was convincing because he gives credible evidence that McCandless was not foolish like many critics say he was.
