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Grand Teton National Park / History / History: The Wild Wild West / Rocky Mountain Living / The Wind River Range / Travel Photography / Yellowstone National Park
by vols4everus · Published 12/09/2020
The Last Day: Yellowstone and Home Again! With no reason to stay in the Tetons, on the morning of September 16, I quickly headed up the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, otherwise known...
Grand Teton National Park / History / History: The Wild Wild West / Rocky Mountain Living / The Wind River Range / Travel Photography
by vols4everus · Published 12/07/2020
After leaving the National Museum of Military Vehicles I drove back through Dubois before heading up the Dubois Gateway Scenic Byway to Moran Junction, the eastern entrance to Grand Teton National Park. In Laurent...
Grand Teton National Park / History / History: The Wild Wild West / Rocky Mountain Living / The Wind River Range / Travel Photography / Yellowstone National Park
by vols4everus · Published 12/07/2020 · Last modified 01/08/2021
Day Two / Part One: The National Museum of Military Vehicles I woke early on Tuesday, the 15th of September, and after a quick shower I found myself headed back down the road to...
History / History: The Wild Wild West / Rocky Mountain Living
by vols4everus · Published 11/18/2020 · Last modified 11/19/2020
Day One On Monday morning, September 14, 2020, I left Billings, Montana and headed west, following I-90 to the town of Laurel, where I turned south on US 212, the same two-lane highway that...
History / History: The Wild Wild West / Rocky Mountain Living
by vols4everus · Published 11/17/2020 · Last modified 11/18/2020
Introduction On Monday, October 14, 2020, I left Billings, Montana for the first time since last February, for an excursion down into Wyoming. My chiropractor, Dr. Holl, told me about a brand new museum...
The United States Expands: The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2nd Edition Part 3 Thoroughly fed up with the not-so-Pacific Ocean the decision was made to break camp on March 23, 1806, and head, eastward,...
Two months later, on May 14, 1804, the Corps of Discovery set out from their camp at Wood River where the mighty stream known as the Missouri flows into the Mississippi River. [16] They...
On January 18, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sent a message to Congress asking for funds to outfit an expedition to explore the western lands from the Mississippi River to the “western (Pacific) Ocean.” He...
I love History. It’s the one discipline that I genuinely enjoyed in school. Whether it was 11th Grade American History, in high school, or any of the fourteen courses I took while in college,...
Doolittle’s Raid and the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. Eighteen ships and over three hundred aircraft were...
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