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    Fort Mandan

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    In December of 1804, in the area around present-day Washburn, North Dakota, the temperature averaged 4 degrees above zero. The following month, January of...

    Fort Vancouver

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    Standing on the grounds of Fort Vancouver, Washington today I feel the spirits of the past beside me. I look around and envision what...

    Blacks in the West

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    The Blacks in America who headed west did so for much the same reasons that other folks packed up and started towards the land...

    Mary Fields

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    Mary Fields had at one time been a slave. But now, about 1894, she packed a gun and did not avoid a good ole...

    Forts of the West

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    Until the mid-1840s about the only protection for westward bound travelers was Fort Leavenworth in present-day Kansas. Leavenworth’s major function, at that time, was...

    Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, part 9

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    Over the prairie they came roaring. Their weapons were held aloft in clutched fists above their shaggy heads. Their war whoops filled the alkali...

    Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, part 8

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    By Monday, June 13, 1836, if Eliza Spalding could have viewed St. Louis again she might not have considered it such a moldy and...

    Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, part 7

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    What does a party of missionaries, three Nez Perce, an English nobleman, a scraggly bunch of mountain men, and 5,000 buffalo have in common? The...

    Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, part 6

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    At last it was time for the Whitmans and Spaldings to leave Elizas decaying city of St. Louis. Now it was up the Missouri...

    Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, part 5

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    Doctor Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Prentiss were married in February of 1836. That Narcissa was considered bordering on old maidenhood no longer mattered and...
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