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Category Archives: American Indians
The Puritan-Pequot War
Introduction At no time in the early history of European migration to North America did any man or woman have “an easy time” of it. Many did not long survive in the new world. If hostilities did not kill them, they starved. Lack of … Continue reading
God made man — but Texas made Texans
Introduction In 1820, Tejas (Texas) was a province of New Spain. In that year, the population of Hispanics living in Texas was around 1,700 — mainly concentrated in San Antonio, but with a spattering of people also living in Nacogdoches … Continue reading
The New Northwest Territory
Introduction There was a time when the territorial extent of British America began at the Atlantic seacoast and ended at the eastern foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. This boundary was an intentional restriction imposed upon the colonists by the British government, … Continue reading
The Northwest Indian War
Some Background In 1757, long before the Revolutionary War with Great Britain, Benjamin Franklin was sent to England by the Pennsylvania Assembly as a colonial agent to protest the political influence in Pennsylvania of the Penn family, the proprietors of … Continue reading
Colonial Expansion
… And the Old Northwest Territory Introduction It is entirely possible that no one in the United States today knows who Jeffrey Amherst was. I’ll solve that problem right now: he was the man who, as commander-in-chief of British forces in … Continue reading
Trading, Raiding, and Outlawry
Introduction Cultural evolution is an interdisciplinary study because it involves human history, biology and genetics, human behavior, demography, language, archeology, anthropology, and specific sociological effects. How did the Shoshone Indians become Comanche, how did the Comanche progress from wandering nomads to … Continue reading
The Frontier Regiment
Background There was some interest in the United States for migrating to Texas in the mid-1830s — but not much, mostly because the fate of Texas and the people who lived there was uncertain. But in 1850, with the issue of statehood out … Continue reading
An Old Texas Fort
Age of Discovery Spain began its age of discovery and conquest with the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492.[1] From that moment when Columbus accidentally stumbled into the American continent, Spanish explorers and conquistadors began building an empire so large that … Continue reading
The Apache Kid
The Aravaipa Canyon is a wilderness area managed by the Bureau of Land Management. It consists of a little more than 19,000 square acres in the southeast section of Arizona. The canyon area was the birthplace of an Apache Indian named Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl — … Continue reading
More Cattle — More Cattle Wars
Some background Florida’s cattle were the first in North America, brought here by the 1521 expedition of Ponce de Leon. Cattle ranching began before the Seventeenth Century around America’s first city, St. Augustine. When Florida became a US territory in … Continue reading
Old West Tales 