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Old West TV – The Great Camel Experiment
Dakota Livesay talks about the Great Camel Experiment, when Secretary of War Jefferson Davis asked Congress to fund an experimental herd of camels in the 1855! “My admiration for the camels increases daily with my experience of them. The harder the test they are put to the more fully they seem to justify all that can be said […]
Sierra Mountains Telegraph Line
For development to take place there has to be men of vision. Men of vision developed the pony express to deliver mail to the western frontier faster than stagecoach. Unfortunately for the pony express, at the same time other men of vision were developing a faster way to connect the east with the west. One […]
The Transcontinental Railroad Challenge
In 1850 over 9,000 miles of track covered the Northeastern portions of the United States. By 1860 there were 30,000 miles, more than the rest of the world combined, and the tracks were extending to the Midwest. As early as the 1840’s Congress began thinking about the possibility of constructing a transcontinental railroad. And then […]
The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny
Two speeches, each delivered on December 2, that happened to be 22 years apart, resulted in affecting the development of the west more than any other single action during the 1800’s. On December 2, 1823, during his seventh speech before Congress, President James Monroe introduced the concept that, for reasons of national security, all European […]
Mountain Man Joe Meek
Joe Meek was born in Virginia in 1810. He had little use for school. So, at the age of 16 he left home. Later Joe did teach himself to write, and he read the classics of his day. But, when he wrote, his spelling and grammar were highly creative to say the least. At […]
