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The purpose of this book was to follow pioneers as they moved west across the United States of America. He begins the book with Anglo-American settlements to the 1890.

These creatures can be seen cavorting in canals, ponds, rivers, and sometimes coastal marshes. They are quite smart, being the only mammal other than humans to use tools.

Captain Benjamin Bonneville's adventures in the fur trade of the Rocky Mountains and far West. Hudson Bay's depletion of beaver in Oregon Country.

The Mountain Man rendezvous of 1832 was held at Pierre's Hole. Hundreds of mountain men, trappers, Indians and fur company traders met to sell furs or trade for supplies.

At Fort Vancouver, on the north bank of the Columbia River, visitors enter Pacific Northwest history in all its vibrant action and color.

With his skillful use of light and remarkably detailed portraits, Alfred Jacob Miller built a solid reputation as an artist in early 1800s Baltimore.

Jim Bridger is credited with establishing the Oregon Trail, being one of the first Caucasians to explore Yellowstone, and for charting the trail to Montana's gold fields.

The governor declines a stay of execution for Kansas Charley. The Johnson County War is halted. The hired Texas killers are set free.

Covered wagons rolled across the Nebraska prairie, their eyes seeking Scotts Bluff, a prominent landmark on the Oregon Trail that is now a national monument.

Like Santa Fe, Taos, New Mexico is full of art and history, from Native American pottery to works by the Taos Society of Artists to the home of frontiersman Kit Carson.

The Oregon Trail was little more than wagon ruts, and presented the first western travelers with many difficulties and challenges as they journeyed to their new homes.

Populating a new land was near the top of the Quebec agenda in the 1600s and 1700s. There were rewards for marrying and for producing children.

Hillary Clinton descends from three of the King's Daughters, a group of 852 women sent to New France as wives for Quebec's earliest settlers.

With close proximity to Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park, Jackson Hole offers exciting outdoor adventures and a look back to times of the Old West.

All of Europe was enmeshed in the Napoleonic Wars in 1809, but in North America Canadians and Americans were casting their eyes westward.

A trip to the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Baker City, OR, is like taking a trip back in time. Dioramas, film strips and exhibits make history come alive.

How did both Cajun and Creole French refugee populations come to bring such distinct cuisines to Louisiana?

From 1846 to 1869, around 70,000 Mormons followed the Mormon Pioneer Trail from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah, a difficult and dangerous journey.

Fort Sumner, New Mexico was the destination of the Navajo Long Walks, an integral stop on the Goodnight/Loving Trail, and a favorite hideout for Billy the Kid.

Kansas Charley is apprehended after his jailbreak. The Johnson County cattle war breaks out.

The Oregon Country was governed equally by Great Britain and the United States. James Polk supported US expansionism, became president and settled the boundary dispute.

Mi'kmac people are devoted to their indigenous identity. One way they can express that is with clothing. The peaked cap that women wear is a unique necessity.

Following the 1832 Mountain Man Rendezvous a battle breaks out between Mountain Men fur trappers and the Gros Ventres, a division of the Blackfeet Indians.

Large groups of covered wagons often traveled together in the American West for protection and mutual support.