How Did J. A. Mulkey Start To A Small Town

Valley Forge was a horrible event a lot of people got sick and even died from it, the army that lived there was the militia or continental congress’s army. They were really poor, they didn’t have enough food and they didn’t have the proper clothes that they needed for the winter, so most got hungry and died from starvation or died from illness because they didn’t have food and became very weak. When they slept, they had sixteen by fourteen huts that didn’t have a working chimney, so the smoke was always in their eyes.

The first local organization around Boone that I thought of was the Mast General Store back when it was first starting out. It probably almost seemed like a giant retail store because it was one of the first stores around this area that provided more than just one segment of the

The section begins with a description of the town, “After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust to the direst mud”(Capote 1). By including these details in the description of the town it shows that the town is a very old fashioned town that is behind the societies that are in more developed, larger cities in America. Capote goes on, “The bank closed in 1933, and its former counting rooms have be converted into apartments”(Capote 2). With the bank having been closed around the time of the depression it shows that the town no longer trusted the government after the banks failed them and they do all their business between themselves. The town is a very closed off from the national system and the only connection they have is through their post office. All these descriptions cause the town to be a perfect picture of a safe, rural community where nothing bad happens and people all depend on each other.

The emigrants on the Oregon trail had many troubles faced during their time on the trail due to life threatening diseases. The emigrants on the Oregon Trail had a 10% chance of living if they had gotten a disease. In the essay “Emigrants on the Oregon Trail” Jack Rockefeller

Of the 22,200 people killed during the war, it is estimated that ¾ died of something other than a bullet would (MILITARY). Illnesses like dysentery, typhoid or “lake” fever, pneumonia, malaria, measles and smallpox were all present in the camps of soldiers (MILITARY). People were dying so fast in fact, that the hospital tents would be forced to hold dead bodies as many camps were facing coffin shortages (Newfield). The amount of people packed together in such a small space and the fact that the hospitals, the place they sent sick and wounded, were storing bodies, both added to the problem of spreading disease. Observers of this horror, like Capt.

They say that only the Native Americans died on this trail, but along with the Native Americans, there were piles soldiers that led trail that died as well. They had a lack of food and

We expected Whitman Mission to be a nice place to stock up on food, but this place was burned down to the ground. There was one wagon train about to leave but we stopped them and asked them what had happened. They said that the Indians burned it down because of a disease that killed off a lot of Indians. They didn't want anyone else catching the disease. The Indians were the only ones not immune to this disease. We didn't stay here for long because we were scared they would burn us too. We headed to Oregon City. It was going to be tough and we would probably start to run low on supplies. We reached Dalles where we stayed for one day. Then we headed out and followed the Barlow Road that goes around Mt.Hood. This trail is very narrow and rough.

Times were rough at Valley Forge. There was hardly any food, no clothing, and no ventilation in the huts. These conditions then led to everyone being

In the 1870’s, the Unassigned Lands in the part of the Oklahoma Territory that would become Norman, Oklahoma was a sight to behold. Just north of the North Canadian River, which is the main tributary of the Canadian River, which in turn is the largest tributary of the Arkansas River, Abner Ernest Norman led his federal surveying crew to what would develop into the town bearing his namesake. “Norman, a 23-year-old surveyor from Kentucky, was hired to oversee part of this project. Norman’s work crew set up camp near what is today the corner of Classen and Lindsey streets; it was there that the men, perhaps jokingly, carved a sign on an elm tree that read “Norman’s Camp,” in honor of their young boss.” (Mills)

At 12:01, with the echo of the last bell lingering in the air, the one-hundred pounds of dynamite hidden in the wagon exploded (Andrews, 2014). Shrapnel encompassed the immediate area; people were dropping everywhere. The structures nearby shook as the shock wave slammed through the exterior walls. The cloth awnings that overlooked the streets burst into flames (Bellows, 2007). Next, came a rain shower of glass that drenched the streets from the shattered windows. Nearby, World War I veterans experienced a scene of devastation very similar to that of the battlefields. They initially suspected that cause of such destruction had come from the skies (King, 2011). One witness wrote, “ It was a crash out of a blue sky, an unexpected, death dealing bolt which in a twinkling turned into a shamble the busiest corner of Americas financial center” (Gage 2002).

There were many terrible epidemics. The ones of 1781 and 1801 did take over thousands of Indians lives. The worst one they experienced was the one of 1837. This was in Fort Clark, a fur trading post south of the Knife River. It was west of the Missouri. There were many Mandan villages near the fort. On June 18, there was a steamboat named St. Peters that approached the fort. Not just bringing supplies, it also brought Francis Chardons, Superintendent of Fort Clark, son, Andrew Jackson Chardon, who was two years old. He caught up to it about thirty miles downstream of the river, and found out that some of the people on there were infected with smallpox. The steamboat landed at Fort Clark later and people were coming and going from

As the 1870s progressed the Vankoughnetts and kin formed a hardy and tight knit community surrounding Otter Lake. Slowly the land was cleared and the farms started looking like farms and the young township started taking shape. There were two events however, that would significantly affect how the future would unravel for all the

The post office was commissioned in 1868 at a log cabin built just east and north of the present town of Elmwood by David McCaig, who suggested that it be known to residents as Elmwood because of

Imagine that it is Spring and you are in Hardin, Missouri when the horrible nightmare happened! In nineteen ninety-three Hardin, Missouri got flooded and fifty-five thousand houses got flooded or completely destroyed. About half of one thousand five hundred seventy-six graves got swept away. Some of the coffins moved about eighteen miles away in distance from Hardin, Missouri. DMORT rounded up six hundred coffins and three thousand four hundred bones. One hundred twenty nine skulls got buried in the fair grounds. Some bodies were so old that they could not put them together cause they were rotten! There were seven hundred ninety three bodies missing but the DMORT team found about

on september 10, 1928, a cape verde-type hurricane was detected coming over the tropical atlantic. it was about 900 miles east of the caribbean island of guadeloupe. after crossing guadeloupe, the hurricane was getting stronger and stronger. after it crossed directory over lake okeechobee, the motion of the storm turned to the northeast, bringing it across northern florida without losing any of its strength. it then weakened when it got to the coasts of eastern georgia and the carolinas. this is where the white pioneers that had come a few decades earlier were buried. approximately 674 of the dead were buried in an unmarked area in the black neighborhood that ended up being forgotten by everyone, except the residents. joint state and federal