Jim Bridger and the Fur Trade, Part 2
Bridger spent that winter at the forks of the Snake River. It was not a good spot, as there was very little grass for...
The Whipple Expedition to the Southwest
Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple had just finished surveying the border between the U.S. and Mexico when on February 4, 1853, he received orders to...
Hank Vaughan, Oregon Rustler
Henry Clay Vaughan was born on April 27, 1849, to Alexander H. and Elizabeth Fields Vaughan. The family farm was located in the Willamette...
Wild Bunch – The Ice Wagon Affair
In the fall of 1901, the last thing Nashville, Tennessee, expected was trouble from a train robber. After all, it had been more than...
Edward F. Beale, Sailor, Adventurer, Explorer
Edward Fitzgerald Beale was born February 4, 1822, to George and Emily Truxtun Beale. They lived on a farm in the District of Columbia....
Phoebe and Holden Judson, Pioneers of Washington
Phoebe Goodell grew up in Vermillion, Ohio on Lake Erie. She married Holden Allen Judson in 1850. They went west to start their own...
Jim Bridger and the Fur Trade, Part 3
Next came a dispute between Bridger and Brigham Young. The dispute seems to have arisen because Young thought Bridger was inciting the Indians to...
Jim Bridger and the Fur Trade, Part 1
Jim Bridger was born in the spring of 1804. When Jim was eight the family moved from Virginia to a Missouri farm not far...