Letitia Carson: Defiant Pioneer Women and the American StoryIn the mid-19th century, only around 3% of those who traveled West on the Oregon Trail were Black. Among them was Letitia Carson, the only Black woman in Oregon to successfully receive land through the Homestead...
The Donner Party’s Deadly Detour Wild Wild WestTaking a shortcut in the unexplored American West was always a gamble – but for the Reed and Donner families it proved...