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After the relocation of the Choctaw Nation, the United States steeped up its efforts to remove native tribes and resettle them in Indian Territory.

Moses Austin starts a colony in Spanish Missouri, then travels to Texas and obtains a Spanish land grant there.

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.

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.

Adding a few folk songs to homeschooling programs for reading is a fun way to tie into a Social Studies homeschool program and improve reading fluency all at once.

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.

Only one of Gideon Gifford's 18 children is given in the 1896 Gifford Genealogy. How to find the others? Ah, the widow's Revolutionary War pension application.

Harpers Ferry National Park nestles into 4,000 rolling acres in the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains, at the convergence of the states of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.