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A picture can be worth a thousand words. But an image posted Monday across the social media accounts of the Department of ...
Professor Joseph Genetin-Pilawa spoke about post-Civil War westward expansion, and how it affected Native Americans and federal Indian policy. He argued that during the Reconstruction era, Native ...
Westward Expansion Towns 1.Why was Independence, Missouri the ideal place for the start of trails out west? 2.Why was it significant that missionary women joined the trails out west in the 1830 ...
City Council approves the bids and engineering contracts needed for the Westward Water Main Expansion to continue.
Set in Montana at the turn of the 20th century, it contains all of the conventional dichotomies: Cowboys versus Indians, progress versus tradition, nature versus industry, man versus woman.
The film "The Westward Movement: Settlers Of The Old Northwest Territory" (1962) explores the migration and settlement of the Northwest Territory in the United States following the Revolutionary ...
Westward the Women The femmes who helped settle the west didn't chase the sun via cozy streamliners or luxury planes. Showing just what the hardships of such a crossing were and the valiant spirit ...
The film "American Pioneer" explores the westward movement of settlers in colonial America during the 1760s and 1770s. Following the French and Indian War, many immigrants sought land and freedom ...
Rock Port Elementary students visited the museum to hear about westward expansion and build upon what they recently learned in class.
Jul. 16—Marla Matkin admires the adventurous spirit and wanderlust that sparked Marion Sloan Russell to travel the Santa Fe Trail five times, starting when she was just 7. "She said she would ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA is exploring ways to promote the growth of women’s college basketball, including possible expansion of the 68-team tournament that determines the sport's national ...