The History Files Archives: ep 019

This episode originally aired in June of 2015.

“Breaking up camp at sunrise” by Alfred Jacob Miller, ca. 1845

From the original show notes:

“This week on The History Files, we tackle the phenomenon that is the Westward Expansion movement of the late 18th to mid 19th century in North America. Disclaimer: nobody dies of dysentery in this episode.”

Links:

• King Philip's War

• Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting

  

  Artist’s impression of the incident with Arnold holding a sketch of the object (ufoinsight.com)

• The Official Foyle's War Fan Site

• David Crockett: Hero of the Common Man by William Groneman

• Long rifle (en.wikipedia.org)

• The Sharpened Axe: The Development of the American Felling Axe in Northern Maine, by Chingatchgook

• Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)

• Hudson's Bay Company

• Rocky Mountain Fur Company

• The Platte River Route

• William Becknell

• Commerce of the Prairies, by Josiah Gregg

• Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

• Marcus Whitman

• The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Prairie Traveler, by Randolph B. Marcy

• Joseph R. Walker

• The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions, by Randolph Marcy (full text)