guides and protection to help them make the often treacherous journey.Wagon Trainswere formed to allow groups to reduce the dangers associated with the long journey west.Wagon Trainsgave pioneers the advantage of strength in numbers along with a mobile “fort” capability when wagons were circled t...
During these early years, soldiers from Fort Leavenworth protected wagon trains hauling supplies over the Santa Fe, Oregon, and other trails to most forts, posts, and military camps of the West, some as far as the Pacific Ocean. In 1839, Colonel Stephen W. Kearny marched against the ...
[22] The Valentines owned property on the south side of Main Street, east of Shore Road. Sloter may have moved across to the north side of Main Street sometime between 1908 and 1921. In 1921, there was a report of an attempt “to jimmy the door of the barbershop of John Sloter, nea...
There weren't airplanes, cars, or roads to make the trip west, and trains had only just been invented. It took thousands of settlers moving west by wagon or on foot to set up new communities, but a few people played a major role in making this all happen. One of these people was ...
Rough terrain, harsh winter weather, food shortages, disease and violence made wagon travel dangerous for the half-million people crossing the trails in the 19th century, with estimates marking tens of thousands of deaths in the region. Conflicts also erupted between travelers and Native Americans ...
When wagon trains were passing through Shoshone country in the 1850s, Washakie and his people aided the overland travelers in fording streams and recovering strayed cattle. He was also a scout for the U.S. Army. Essentially from that time until his death, he was considered the head of the...
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Our frontier crawled west from the first seaport settlements afoot, on horseback, in barges, or with slow wagon trains. It crawled across the Alleghanies, down the great river valleys, and up them yet again, and at last, in days of new transportation, it leaped across divides, from one ...
The new tribune Glabrio wants two things as Titianus trains him: to discover for their commander who Titianus is investigating and to gain the support of Titianus’s powerful relatives. Marrying Sabina would secure the backing of her grandfather, but because of the teacher, she’s making choi...
“There were about a dozen very prominent horse tribes that went all the way from the Canadian border to Mexican border and they were the ones that confronted all these wagon trains and ‘Manifest Density,’” says Viola. “Because they were such good horse people, they were very effective ...