Non-Boring History

Non-Boring History

West With Wagons

West With the Wagons (10): Buffalo and People
WEST WITH THE WAGONS Now We See Buffalo. Now We Don't. And what that means for us
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Annette Laing
West With the Wagons (9): Cholera
WEST WITH THE WAGONS For Gold Rush Migrants, the Great Plains Journey Was Often Boring, Anxious, and Terrifying. Here's Some Terrifying.
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Annette Laing
West With The Wagons (8): Need Any Stamps Today?
The Post Office in the Middle of Nowhere. On the Trail of the Gold Rush, We're All Surprised.
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Annette Laing
West With The Wagons (7): Misimpressions
Even Before They Went West, Migrants Craved Information About Native Peoples. But How Much Could They Know?
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Annette Laing
West With The Wagons (6): Fear and Water
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD/THROWBACK SPECIAL It's Showtime in 1849! Scary Prairie, and the River On Which Everybody and Nobody Travels
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Annette Laing
West With the Wagons (5) Unexpected Meetings
We Stop at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Meet People We Might Not Expect Going West
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Annette Laing
West With the Wagons (4) Fighting Words/Traffic/People
In Missouri, Two Frontier Towns Battle (Gloves Off) For Westward Migrants' Cash. Plus A Chaotic Departure Experience.
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Annette Laing
West With the Wagons (3) Slow Rainy Sticky Going ☔
On the Way Out of Missouri, We Meet Migrants Who're Not Who We Expected. Why Are We All Going South?
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Annette Laing
West With the Wagons (2) Trails, Swales, 'n Tales in Independence
Getting Acquainted and Equipped in Independence, Your Westward Journey HQ
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Annette Laing
West With the Wagons (1): Clueless in Independence
Annette Gets Ready to Go West From an 1849 Starting Point. Sort of.
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Introducing: West With the Wagons at NBH
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Annette Follows Long-Ago Covered Wagons to Gold Rush California, and Discovers a Fantastic New Way to Travel (no, not by wagon)
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