Search results

...ual harassment from the Chickasaw. Meanwhile, English fur traders and long hunters (frontiersmen who spent long periods hunting in this area) came over the mo === The American Revolution and Statehood ===

=== 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

The region's earliest inhabitants were descendants of Ice Age hunters. Little is known of these "Red Paint" people - so named because of the red ...alian sailor in the employ of King Henry Vii of England, sailed into North American waters and may well have explored the Maine coast, although there is no con

...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

'''''To Tell the Truth''''' is an American [[television]] [[panel game]] show in which four [[celebrity]] panelists ar ...the+Truth%22#search_anchor|title=Book Search:Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television|publisher=Google Books}}</ref> The show was replaced by the expa

* Hiram Rhoades Revels, born in Fayetteville in 1822, was the first African-American member of the United States Congress. * The town of Wendell town was named for the American writer, Oliver Wendell Holmes.

|journal=[[Scientific American]] |journal=[[Scientific American]]