American Trail – Golden Ocean, 1843. ep6, 1953.
Covered wagons roll West, through the Cumberland Gap, and on towards Illinois. Syrus McCormick tinkers with a machine, but farmers scoff at his idea that farming will ever change from…
American Trail – Samuel Slators Machine, 1789. ep05, 1953.
Samuel Slater is a mostly unrecognized figure from America's early history. He came from England to bring plans to duplicate the textile machinery used over there to set up cotton…
American Trail – The Louisiana Purchase, 1803. ep03, 1953.
During the time that Thomas Jefferson was president, the land surrounding New Orleans, and areas West of the Mississippi were in a volitile situation. With the risk of France possibly…