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Votes:0 Many years ago people in the United States traveled to the new frontiers. Although in the 1700s the frontier was the Appalachian Mountains, later with westward expansion the frontier moved to the territories beyond the Mississippi River. Our web page will provide information about the pioneers who traveled not only to Oregon on the Oregon Trail and the Natchez Trace to Texas but all early American Pioneers. We have discovered that all pioneers had many of the same experiences. This page will tell the story of the pioneers and their adventures on the trail to their new lives on the frontiers of North America. Who were the Pioneers? Why did they travel to the frontier? Where did the pioneers travel to? What are some of the trails they used? What did they take with them? How did they travel? Read More Go to Site
Votes:0 The Topic: Mountain Men Also visit a companion webpage to this site called Mountain Men Links and find connections to almost a hundred mountain men biography websites. They are organized alphabetically from John David Albert to Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth. Easier - Mountain men were fur traders and trappers who explored much of the Rocky Mountain regions. Mountain men like Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Thomas Fitzpatrick, and Jedediah Smith mapped the Rockies as they searched for and trapped beaver. Harder - Lewis and Clark's 'Corps of Discovery' (1804-'05) brought back reports of the wild game and fur-bearing animals in the Rocky Mountains. Several fur companies were interested in harvesting these resources. Finding few Native Americans interested in trapping, these companies hired frontiersmen to Read More Go to Site
Votes:0               Bibliography Created by Emily Zimmerman as a part of the University of Virginia's American Studies project on Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land . This site is optimized for Netscape 3.0 Read More Go to Site
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