The premise of the Oregon Trail game is simple. You lead a party of pioneers in a covered wagon from Independence, Missouri to Oregon’sWillamette River. The Oregon Trail incorporates educational topics like math, planning, discovery, improvisation, and historical simulations into gameplay. Plus min...
The Trail of Tears is used by many people to refer to the removal of Native American Tribes from their ancestral lands in the Southeastern United States to territory west of the Mississippi River (in what is now Oklahoma). Specifically, though, it refers to the "trail where they cried," ...
Trees were scarce on the Great Plains, forcing pioneers such as the Browns to construct homes from blocks made of buffalo-grass sod. Most of these sod homes have disappeared, lost to heavy rains and general neglect. The Brown house is one of just a handful that survives....
Trees were scarce on the Great Plains, forcing pioneers such as the Browns to construct homes from blocks made of buffalo-grass sod. Most of these sod homes have disappeared, lost to heavy rains and general neglect. The Brown house is one of just a handful that survives....
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In 1872, the U.S. government signed the Yellowstone National Park Act into law and created what the National Park Service (NPS) refers to as "the world's first true national park." Today, there are thousands of national parks throughout the world, and four of them — Rocky Mountain, Me...
In 1872, the U.S. government signed the Yellowstone National Park Act into law and created what the National Park Service (NPS) refers to as "the world's first true national park." Today, there are thousands of national parks throughout the world, and four of them — Rocky Mountain, Me...
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Register Cliff is much like Independence Rock...used by Pioneers in the 1840's & 50's on the California, Oregon and Mormon Trails to "unofficially" register their name and give messages to others that are travelling on the trail. The Cliff was a stopover area where trav...
Parts of the proposed site were in the city and in the town of Dickinson. It had been used by the Binghamton Brick Company for several decades.The Wittman Dam was part of a Broome County flood control project built in 1994. Hikers can get access to trails near the dam from Wittman Lane...