Adventurers & Trail Blazers
Susan K. Salzer |
Published: April 02, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Medicine Bill Comstock, descendant of James Fenimore Cooper, brought his uncle's mythical Natty Bumppo to life on the Great Plains as a hunter, trapper and cultural go-between.
Donna Gholson Cook |
Published: October 14, 2008 at 5:23 pm
The 1838 Battle of Battle Creek, Texas, also known as the Surveyors’ Fight, pitted a surveying party comprised of veterans of the Texas Revolution against a Kickapoo war band.
Nick D'Alto |
Published: April 02, 2007 at 9:52 am
Exclusive interview with Dr. William Kelso, chief archaeologist for the Jamestown Rediscovery Project, concerning the significance of Jamestown, Virginia, in the history of America.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
The Pony Express only operated for about 18 months, but the picture-perfect enterprise captured the imagination of a nation and has grown larger than life through the years.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
The MacMillan Arctic Expedition marked the first productive use of aircraft in Arctic exploration by Americans and brought Richard Byrd into the national limelight.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Many pilots considered navigating to Bermuda far too risky in 1930. But an intrepid trio set off in a Stinson Detroiter, determined to prove they could handle that risk.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Bloody and battered from an encounter with a she-grizzly, old trapper Hugh Glass was eventually left to die by two of his comrades. When he refused to die before exacting revenge, a legend was born.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Robert Falcon Scott, the Antarctic pioneer, headed south to make sure that Britain won the race to the South Pole.By Bruce Heydt
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:14 pm
The Army proved a point when Lieutenants Kelly and Macready flew from New York to San Diego in 1923.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:14 pm
President George Washington watched aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard make the first aerial voyage in the New World.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:13 pm
A skillful transpacific flier, Hollywood stunt pilot and daring racer, Arthur Goebel Jr. seemed to thrive on danger.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:13 pm
When R.J. 'Fish' Hassell and Parker 'Shorty' Cramer took off for Stockholm, Sweden, in their Stinson Detroiter in August 1928, they embarked on what was only the first leg of a long and remarkable journey.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:11 pm
The accomplishments of two pioneering civilians -- Emory Bronte and Ernie Smith -- who piloted a Travel Air across the Pacific in 1927 have been largely overlooked.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:10 pm
In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earhart's disappearance.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:09 pm
From remote mining camps in northern California in the early 1850s, Louise ('Dame Shirley') Clapp wrote a series of vivid letters to her sister in New England.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:08 pm
The tragedy and the irony of the man who discovered a nugget on the South Fork of the American River and set in motion the rush to a new El Dorado.
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