This week on The History Files, we tackle the phenomenon that is the Westward Expansion movement of the late 18th to mid 19th century in North America.

Spoiler: nobody dies of dysentery in this episode.

 

Show notes and links:

* King Philip’s War (en.wikipedia.org).

* Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting (en.wikipedia.org).

* The Official Foyle’s War Fan Site (foyleswar.com).

* David Crockett: Hero of the Common Man by William Groneman (goodreads.com).

* Long rifle (en.wikipedia.org).

* The Sharpened Axe: The Development of the American Felling Axe in Northern Maine, by Chingatchgook (thesharpenedaxe.blogspot.com).

* Alexander Mackenzie (explorer) (en.wikipedia.org).

* Hudson’s Bay Company (en.wikipedia.org).

* Rocky Mountain Fur Company (en.wikipedia.org).

* The Platte River Route. (en.wikipedia.org).

* William Becknell (en.wikipedia.org).

* Commerce of the Prairies, by Josiah Gregg (kancoll.org).

* Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (en.wikipedia.org).

* Marcus Whitman. (en.wikipedia.org).

* The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Prairie Traveler, by Randolph B. Marcy (gutenberg.org).

* Joseph R. Walker

* The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions, by Randolph Marcy (full text)