Conestoga Wagons and the Ship of Inland Commerce
A historical piece on the Conestoga wagon, its origin as the original covered wagon, and its role in early American commerce and westward expansion. It covers the wagon’s design, six horse bell teams, specialized gear, and notable uses from 1745 through the War of 1812, with notes on John Omwake’s book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Nicetts
Appalachians
Great West
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
Philadephia
Pittsburgh
Ohio Country
John Omwake
Cincinnati
Wesley Koons
Greencastle
Tranklin
Cumberland Valley
Omwake
George Washington
New England
Atlantic Seaboard
Conestoga Valley
West
Freighiing
Lord Jesus
Benjamin Frankton
Wagonera
General Braddock
Benjamin Pranklin
Valley Forge
Portsmouth
N. R
York
I 1
Continental Congress
Kentucky
Ohio
Brandywine Ils
Lake Erie
Perry
Putdn Bay
Western
Union
Glacier’s ancient rocks loom over Chief Mountain in Montana tale
In Glacier National Park Montana geologists describe eighty million year old Algonkian strata with a rare Lewis Overthrust placing Altayn limestone atop younger rock. Chief Mountain rises 1000 feet as a sentinel from the northeast park edge, visible from Many Glacier and Babb. A black 50 to 100 foot chlorite stripe marks ancient lava intrusion, with ripple marks and fossilized sea impressions on slopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chief Mountain
Benjamin Franklin
Glacier National Park
Montana
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Glacier Park
Park
Many Glacier
Two Medicine
Chief
Lower St Mary Lake
Babb
Great Northern Railway
Glacier Mountains
Western Newspaper Union
Paper Money Made On Silk-Fibered Paper In Crane Inflig
The notes are printed on silk-fibered paper produced in Dalton Mass for the government with secrecy. Possession of the special paper or its imitation is forbidden. Paper is sent to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington in bundles of 1,000 sheets and tracked through each department to the Treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Mass
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Washington
Bureau
The
Treasury
First American Oil Well Found Near Titusville Pa
Edwin L. Drake organized a company and drilled the first American oil well near Titusville Pennsylvania in 1859. Oil flowed at 60 feet then at 25 barrels daily before dwindling to 15 as the early industry began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin L. Drake
New York, New Union & Uwart
Titusville
BE. . Hamilton
Popular Science Monthly
Skeptical Public Brian Jewett Sells Gold Pieces in Portland
In Portland Maine Brian Jewett a grand exalted of the Goot cab sells five gold pieces for four dollars each at five o clock He appears with ten new gold pieces and offers more two others for seventeen dollars Passersby scrutinize a gold pin and many walk away excited at the bold sales pitch by a traveling dealer referenced in the Indianapolis News story
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brian Jewett
Portland
Maine
Indianapolis News
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fo.c. Darley
C.W Jefferys
Yale University Press
Jan Omwake
Scenic Playgrounds OF
America
G. If, Kilbourn
Chief’ Mountain
Walter
Trane Rakeigh
Owever
Elzabeth
Brown & "Williamson Tobas
Louisville
Cook
Orange Grove Ave
Sciatic
Bayve Aspiro
Berlin
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