Heading West: Life with the Pioneers, 21 Activities
To all my wonderful friends in the Focus Photo Club of Dayton Ohio They are helpful and supportive of all my writing and photography
Acknowledgments want to thank Darke County Parks and its director •Roger Van Frank and Garst Museum in Greenville Ohio and its director Penny Perry for allowing me to photograph artifacts on their premises Thanks to Margery Pepiot and Karen Burkett for posing for me in pioneer dress Thanks too to Laura James for allowing me to use one of her photos I also thank Brandon Marie Miller for introducing me to Chicago Review Press and Mary Kay Carson and Tom Uhlman for advice on doing the book And last but not least thanks to Jerome Pohlen my editor who patiently answered all my questions and was sup portive throughout the process of putting together this
Time Line 1754 63 French and Indian War 1775 Daniel Boone blazes the Wilderness Road to Kentucky 1787 Northwest Ordinance creates the Northwest Territory 1803 United States buys Louisiana Terri tory from France 1804 06 Lewis and Clark Expedition explores the Louisiana Territory 1805 07 Zebulon Pike explores the Rocky Mountains and finds Pikes Peak 1807 John Colter discovers geysers in what is now Yellowstone National Park 1811 John Jacob Astor builds a fur trading post in Oregon 1820 Stephen Long leads an expedition across the Rocky Mountains 1821 William Becknell leads an expedition to Santa Fe blazing a new trail the following year 1824 Jim Bridger is possibly the first European man to see the Great Salt Lake 1836 Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spald ing are the first women of European ancestry to cross the Rocky Moun tains
