Fur trade who built and lived at Fort Buenaventura in what is now Ogden, Utah. Goodyear was born in Hamden, Connecticut on February 24, 1817, and became an orphan when he was four. After serving a majority of his Miles Goodyear was a mountain man during the last few years of the youth as a “Bound Boy,” or a personal servant, he was determined to travel west to find fortune. In many parties west the first one was in 1836, when he was nineteen, he joined the Whitman-Spaulding missionary party traveling west on the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri. Goodyear was described by his fellow travelers as “thin and spare,” with “light flaxen hair, light blue eyes.” As time passed, Goodyear’s hair turned red, (probably because how much time he
Farmers began to cultivate vast areas of needed crops such as wheat, cotton, and even corn. Document D shows a picture of The Wheat Harvest in 1880, with men on earlier tractors and over 20-30 horses pulling the tractor along the long and wide fields of wheat. As farmers started to accumilate their goods, they needed to be able to transfer the goods across states, maybe from Illinios to Kansas, or Cheyenne to Ohmaha. Some farmers chose to use cattle trails to transport their goods. Document B demonstrates a good mapping of the major railroads in 1870 and 1890. Although cattle trails weren't used in 1890, this document shows the existent of several cattle trails leading into Chyenne, San Antonio, Kansas City and other towns nearby the named ones in 1870. So, farmers began to transport their goods by railroads, which were publically used in Germany by 1550 and migrated to the United States with the help of Colonel John Stevens in 1826. In 1890, railroads expanded not only from California, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada, but up along to Washington, Montana, Michigan, down to New Mexico and Arizona as well. Eastern States such as New Jersey, Tennesse, Virginia and many others were filled with existing railroads prior to 1870, as Colonel John Stevens started out his railroad revolutionzing movement in New Jersey in 1815.
Approximately forty-five miles east of Sacramento, California, is the friendly town of Placerville, which marks a major “Gold Rush” historical landmark in the United States. In the early days of this small gold mining boomtown, Placerville was known as “Hangtown.” If you come into town, you will see the sign of Placerville, and underneath it you will see its nickname reading, “Old Hangtown.” Nooses can be seen all over town, on police cars, on historical landmark signs – even at the firehouse and on the Placerville City Seal. Placerville has a great deal of history behind its name. Many people who pass through the town, or even those that live there, don’t realize the history behind the town.
West, Elliott, Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado, (University Press of Kansas,
Among the remains of LaRamee’s fractured biography, a man of upright character and independent quality begins to emerge. According to Dr. C.G. Coutant’s History of Wyoming he entered the United States around 1815 with the North West Company – a major player in the fur industry that was involved in a continuous feud with a rival company, The Hudson Bay Company. These conflicting fur companies often created competition between their employees which resulted in violence. LaRamee strung together a group of “free trappers,” and they began trapping at the headwaters of the North Platte (Fetter, 1982).
Charles Chesnutt’s “The Passing of Grandison” is a satirical short story about southern plantation life in the early 1850s. Dick Owens, the spoiled first-born son of a rich Kentucky slaveholder named Colonel Owens wants to impress a young woman named Charity Lomax enough to get her to marry him. To do so, Dick decides to secretly free one of his father’s slaves. With his father’s permission, Dick travels North with one of the slaves named Grandison. He does not tell anyone that he intends to leave Grandison behind in a free state. Although Grandison has no intention of escaping, claiming to love his life as a slave, Dick manages to leave him in Canada. Dick returns home and marries Charity Lomax, having mildly impressed her with his act. A few weeks later, Grandison returns to the plantation, telling the story of his perilous journey home. Colonel Owens fawns over his lost slave and rewards him with tobacco and whiskey. A few weeks later, however, Grandison and all his family escape to freedom. In this story, Chesnutt changes the reader’s initial perception of Grandison and pokes fun at the concept of plantation life and the attitudes of slaveholders, all while commenting on relevant topics to the time period.
"The Santa Fe Trail Lives On!" Welcome to SFTNet, the latest manifestation of the Santa Fe Trail saga. This service is designed for trail buffs, students, researchers, travelers on the trail--in short, anyone with an interest in historic or contemporary developments along the Santa Fe Trail. What Is The Santa Fe Trail? As many who read this introduction will know, the Santa Fe Trail is an ancient land route of communication between the desert Southwest of what is now the United States and the prairies and plains of central North America. In the Southwest it was also part of a longer route that ran down the Rio Grande into what is now northern Mexico. American Indian peoples used the route to trade the agricultural produce of the Rio Grande Valley and the bounty of the plains, such as jerked buffalo meat and buffalo hides. When the Spanish conquistador Onate came to New Mexico in 1598, he and his soldiers followed this ancient route as they explored the plains and traded with the peoples there. During the next two centuries the Spanish gained an intimate knowledge of the plains and the routes between the Mississippi-Missouri river systems and the Southwest. Then, in 1821, a trader from Missouri, William Becknell, came to Santa Fe along what was to become known as the historical route of the Santa Fe Trail. He opened the Santa Fe Trail as a commercial route between what was then ...
rotten start” in life; he spent his childhood days on the streets and piers of
"Someplace along the line you have to come to an understanding with yourself, and I had reached mine a long time before, when I was still on my death bed. Either you overcome or let it consume you.” Davis had once said days before his death. Ernie Davis had to overcome obstacles, at a young age he had to deal with a stuttering problem, he never really took care of it, he, just kept living his life. Those difficult and early stages of his life helped him learn many things. Nothing was ever handed to Ernie. Ernie Davis led Syracuse University to the national championship as a sophomore. Ernie Davis was the first African-American man to win the Heisman Trophy, and to be picked first overall in the NFL draft, but he never ever played a pro game and passed away at the young age of 23 after contracting leukemia. Davis was a great athlete but an even better person, even when he became popular, he remained humbled and didn’t allow the many racial and disrespecting comments bother him for being a black athlete in the south, during a time where African Americans were looked down upon and wasn’t treated fairly. Ernie Davis matters, because he fought through major adversities and also broke down many barriers on his quest to becoming the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy. So, the movie The Express, takes you on a dramatized story about a great man who’s life wasn’t easy but had great personal qualities, on his quest to an NFL career. Is the movie historically accurate or not?
In a penthouse bedroom in Las Vegas, a solitary man sits in a darkened room. He is eating chicken soup. It has taken him hours to consume half of the bowl as he is glued in front of his private screen watching his collection of old westerns. His aides come and reheat the bowl until there is no more. Once they exit, he covers the entire room with toilet paper in case germs have contaminated the room. Billionaire and business tycoon Howard Hughes has dined for the day. People always say it is good to be rich, however in Howard Hughes’s case it was a blessing and a curse. He lived his early life as a king and died a slave (Nicholas 48). Everything he touched turned into gold, whether it was movies, planes or people (Nicholas 48). Howard Hughes was one of the most successful aviators of his time. His investment in film and Hollywood starlets was legendary as well as his eccentric habits which ultimately led to his demise.
His hardships were pretty serious, many people would not have been able to get through them like he could. His work ethic was very good which probably helped him to push through his hardships. As he said, and even wrote a song about, “i’ve always been crazy but its kept me from going insane” Waylon jennings is a very influential person because of his hardships, his career, and his attitude and work ethic.
Over the summer of 1827, Jedediah Smith’s men camped near here, if not on this spot. Impressed by the climate and bountiful wildlife, Smith’s party convinced the Hudson’s Bay Company trappers in the Oregon Country to start trapping farther south each year. From 1832 to 1845, the French Canadian trappers made their seasonal headquarters at what they called Castoria [French Camp] about fifteen miles...
Kirk, Sylvia. Many tender ties: women in fur-trade society, 1670-1870. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 19831980.
John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 17 1942. Gacy had an uneventful childhood up until the age of eleven. While out playing he had been struck on the head by a swing. Subsequently he suffered fainting fits for many years.
The Passing of Grandison was written by a writer by the name of Charles W. Chesnutt, and the main character of this story is a slave man named Grandison. Grandison was unexpectedly receptive, unknowingly deceitful, and an unselfish character in this narrative.
The Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire is a tool often used by professionals to assess a patient’s personality subtypes on a rating scale of 20 to 80. Under the higher order temperament factor Positive Emotionality (PEM) there are four trait scales. For the trait scale Well Being, John Wayne Gacy would score a 70. He was an upstanding member of his community, liked by his neighbors and coworkers, and would even attend children’s birthday parties and hospitals dressed as Pogo the Clown (Hickey, 2016). He had a cheerful disposition when facing the public, however, he only receives a 70 because he would, in fact, be subject to violent mood swings. For the trait scale Social Potency, Gacy receives a score of 80. He