John Wesley Powell: Mapping the Colorado River
In 1869, John Wesley Powell defied the myth of the Colorado River's invincibility and led the first expedition to navigate through the Grand Canyon.
View ArticleRichard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett: First to Fly over the North Pole
The Fokker Trimotor Josephine Ford survived mishaps and beat fierce competition to be the first aircraft to fly over the top of the world, carrying Richard E. Byrd into history.
View ArticleSwedish-Led Artic Expedition in a Balloon Led to a Tragic End
It took 30 years to learn the fate of the first expedition to fly across the North Pole.
View ArticleClimbing Mount Everest
Three generations of British mountaineers committed themselves to standing where no one ever had before.
View ArticleRoald Amundsen and the 1925 North Pole Expedition
Over the vast, frozen wastes of the Artic is the last place anyone would want his airplane to quit.
View ArticleThe Adventures of Three Conquistadores and their Moorish Slave in the...
Tales of the adventures that befell three conquistadores and their Moorish slave during the sixteenth century led to Spain's Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's exploration of what is now the American...
View ArticleMarie Dorion and The Astoria Expedition
The only woman on the 1811-12 overland expedition led by Wilson Price Hunt, Marie Dorion endured more hardships than a more famous female Indian traveler, Sacagawea.
View ArticleWilliam Kidd’s Last Voyage
In the closing days of the 17th century, honest, peace-loving folk in both England and its North American colonies feared, above all, the French, divine judgment, and William Kidd.
View ArticleRichard E. Byrd and the 1925 MacMillan Arctic Expedition
The MacMillan Arctic Expedition marked the first productive use of aircraft in Arctic exploration by Americans and brought Richard Byrd into the national limelight.
View ArticleLetter from Wild West – August 2009
Such intrepid 19th-century explorers as Joe Walker, John Wesley Powell, Benjamin Bonneville, Jedediah Smith and others explored much of the West, yet there remain corners for curious minds to explore.
View ArticleFrench and Indian War: Brigadier General John Forbes’ Expedition
Rather than repeat Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock's disastrous march on Fort Duquesne through western Virginia in 1755, in 1758 Brig. Gen. John Forbes took a new route -- carved through the Allegheny...
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