The answer was simple and direct, as it had been throughout the period of white contact with the red men. First, make them dependent. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark saw this in a flash after their...
The Natchez Trace seemed much safer to him than risking a sailboat from New Orleans to Washington,
The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost.
That evening, the first Americans ever to enter Montana, the first ever to see the Yellowstone, the Milk, the Marias, and the Great Falls, the first Americans ever to kill a grizzly, celebrated their...
Profitable as it was to him, Jefferson hated slavery. He regarded it as a curse to Virginia and wished to see it abolished throughout the United States. Not, however, in his lifetime. He said that his...
Of the tens of thousands of men who died in combat in the war, possibly as many as half lost their lives in vain. Lee’s charges at Malvern Hill and Gettysburg, Burnside’s at Fredericksburg, Grant’s at...
No wrong will ever be done you by our nation.3
No war can be won without young men dying. Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.
Missouri River Outfitters at Fort Benton, Montana, rents canoes or provides a guided tour by pontoon boat. Of all the historic and/or scenic sights we have visited in the world, this is number one. We...
Leigh Freeman moved his printing press to Laramie and set about publishing the Frontier Index there. In its first issue, May 5 [1868], the paper predicted that Laramie would soon rival Chicago. When i...
Jefferson could write, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Despite himself, Webster was drawn to the people. The Germans I have seen so far have impressed me as clean, efficient, law-abiding people, he wrote his parents on April 14. They were churchgoers. In...
Whiskey. The chiefs were exceedingly fond of it, they took up an empty bottle, Smelted it, and made maney Simple jestures and Soon began to be troublesom. Clark
The medics were the most popular, respected, and appreciated men in the company. Their weapons were first-aid kits, their place on the line was wherever a man called out that he was wounded.
That extra special, elite, close feeling started under the stress Capt. Sobel created at Camp Toccoa. Under that stress, the only way the men could survive was to bond together. Eventually, the noncom...
Stuka dive-bomber and the tank.
Pvt. Robert Fruling said he spent two and a half days at Pointe-du-Hoc, all of it crawling on his stomach. He returned on the twenty-fifth anniversary of D-Day to see what the place looked like standi...
Over the next two months Eisenhower labored
Older British observers complained, The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here. (To which the Yanks would reply, The trouble with you Limeys is that you are underpai...
It all happened, Lipton summed up, because Shifty saw a tree almost a mile away that hadn't been there the day before.