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• Directory:Bushnell, Florida
  ...l stream, features small lakes once fished by American Indians and Spanish explorers. Most are still popular with anglers today, as is Lake Panasoffkee, to the
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• Directory:Hawaii
  === Early Settlers and Explorers === ...lture and commerce were promoted. As a result of Kamehameha's hospitality, American traders were able to exploit the islands' sandalwood, which was much valued
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• Directory:Idaho
  === Early Explorers and Fur Traders === ...issouri Fur Company established a post near present-day Rexburg, the first American trading post established in the area.
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• Directory:New Mexico
  ...ommunities much like the villages, or pueblos, of home. Culturally similar American Indians, the Mogollón, lived in today's Gila National Forest. ...had conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Subsequent explorers remained on the alert for other lands which might prove as wealthy as ones
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• Directory:Illinois
  French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, in 1673, were the first Europeans of re ...manent settlement at Cahokia, near present-day East St. Louis. More French explorers followed, building military outposts and establishing a fur trading empire
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• Directory:South Carolina
  ...nal Thirteen Colonies in [[Year Admitted:=1788]]. First visited by Spanish explorers in the early 1500s, the region was granted by Charles II of England to eigh ...South Carolina has had a rich and varied history. When Spanish and French explorers arrived in the area in the 16th century, they found a land inhabited by man
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• Directory:Oklahoma
  === The Native American Heritage === ...oma. Later Juan de Oñate passed through W Oklahoma, and some other Spanish explorers and traders and French traders from Louisiana visited the region, but there
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• Directory:Indiana
  Native American Indians migrated west into Indiana as European settlers took their lands du ...merican land. Their victory in 1779 of Fort Sackville in Vincennes, led to American control of the northwest. After the war, Indiana became part of the Northwe
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• Directory:Minnesota
  ...ders landed in Two Harbors in 1660. Following the visits of several French explorers, fur traders, and missionaries, including Jacques Marquette, Louis Joliet, ...ion amounts to less than 4000 people, not including persons of pure Native-American heritage. Law provides for free public schools to be open to all people bet
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...t was first visited by a European expedition under De Soto in 1540. French explorers came down the Mississippi River, claiming both sides for France, and c.1682 === The American Revolution and Statehood ===
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• Directory:Nebraska
  === Hunters, Explorers, and Fur Traders === ...nee were defeated in 1859, and by 1880 war with the Sioux and other Native American resistance was over. With the coming of the railroads, cow towns, such as O
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• Directory:Louisiana
  ...duce of the mid-west travelled to reach market. To get the vital region in American hands, President Thomas Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase with Na ...leans where a new statehouse was waiting. Built at a cost of $100,000, the American gothic design of the building was very much in vogue. Mark Twain said about
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• Directory:West Virginia
  ...This part of Virginia, which later became West Virginia, was penetrated by explorers and fur traders as early as the 1670s. It was cut off from the eastern regi === The American Revolution ===
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• Directory:Alabama
  ...okee in the east, and the Choctaws and Chickasaws in the west when Spanish explorers arrived. The first known European contact with what would become Alabama oc ...between the Spanish and local Indian tribes, as well as French and English explorers, kept the Spanish from establishing a colony. The first permanent European
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• Directory:North Dakota
  ...its post at Fort Union, which was established in 1828, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company gradually gained monopolistic control for a time over the regio ...A treaty was signed in 1868. In 1876, after gold was discovered on Native American land in the Black Hills, the unwillingness of the whites to respect treaty
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• Directory:Missouri
  ...rded history begins in the latter half of the 17th century when the French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first white people to see the When the French explorers arrived the area was inhabited by Native Americans of the Osage and the Mis
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• Directory:Goodbye to a River Plot Summary and More
  ...do River, the Brazos found itself as an important route for early European explorers to use for navigation.'' ...uage, naturalist philosophy and beautiful prose, the book is considered an American classic and heralded as a masterpiece of conservation and history, often co
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• Directory:Arizona
  ...s minerals, valued even by prehistoric miners, attracted most of the early explorers, and although the area remained a relatively obscure section of the Territo ...blican candidate for the U.S. presidency, was long the standard bearer for American conservatism. Democrat Stewart L. Udall served as secretary of the interior
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...d British for control of North America, and Pontiac's Rebellion , a Native American uprising (1763-66). ...ich forbade settlement west of the Appalachians. Daniel Boone , the famous American frontiersman, first came to Kentucky in 1767; he returned in 1769 and spent
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• Directory:Montana
  ...ce by François and Louis-Joseph Verendrye in the early 1740s. The American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led their expedition across Montana to t ...Mary's Mission, the first attempt at a permanent settlement. In 1847, the American Fur Company built Fort Benton on the Missouri River. This town is now Monta
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