The Appalachian Trail Analysis

In the middle of the 19th century, the Oregon Trail was the main pathway for American emigrants who were searching for new lands. While most Oregon bound traveled a route that passed by landmarks, Missouri, Kansas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Idaho, and Oregon there was never one set of wagon ruts leading west. The route was considered too demanding for the women and children or covered wagons to navigate.In 1836 that's when it all changed by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. BothWhitman, took a small party of wagons from St.Louis to the Walls Valley.In 1843 Marcus Whitman, helped lead the first major wagon train for around 1,000 settlers along the Oregon Trail. In about ten years, 50,000 settlers traveled by the Oregon Trail each year.

This essay is a case study analysis of the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), which was formed in 1876. The AMC was established to bring people together to conserve and enjoy the out-door wilderness. Volunteerism has been a major tradition of the AMC, which separates the club from other environmental organizations. AMC’s close group of volunteers gives the club a sense of community. AMC operated for years as a highly decentralized, highly voluntarily managed organization, but as memberships grew, and chapters formed, the organization would need to hire paid staff. By the late 1970s to late 80s, AMC was faced with financial deficits. Thus, by 1989 Harvard MBA graduate Andy Falender was employed as the new executive director of AMC. Falender would restructure the club, and fix its financial crisis.

This topic the Oregon Trail deals with all these people were looking for a better life or some freedom to practice their religion for themselves along with their families. Saw that they needed to move somewhere else and many of them decided to move west and take the Oregon trail or move to the state of California. Even though they knew it wasn't easy there was many trails that they had to go threw. They decided to take on that idea to leave for the Oregon trail.

The Appalachian Trail was also the product of a daydream atop Stratton Mountain, the brainchild of Benton MacKaye. MacKaye was an off-and-on federal employee, educated as a forester and self-trained as a planner, who proposed it as the connecting thread of "a project in regional planning." His proposal, drawing on years of talk of a "master trail" within New England hiking circles, was written at the urging of concerned friends in the months after his suffragette-leader wife killed herself. It appeared in the October 1921 edition of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, at the time a major organ the regional-planning movement. MacKaye envisioned a trail along the ridge-crests of the Appalachian

The first Region is the Blue Ridge Mountains this region is located in the North Eastern part of Georgia. This region is home to The Blue Ridge Mountains, which is the southernmost point in The Appalachian Mountain Chain. It is home to Georgia’s highest point, Brasstown bald at 4,784 feet above Sea Level. The First American Gold Rush took place here in 1828.

Frontiersmen began traveling towards the Appalachian Mountains and over other mountains. However, Indian chief, Pontiac, led a violent rebellion to push Britain out of America, but Britain successfully subdued the rebellion. As a result, Britain issue the Proclamation of 1763, dictating that Americans were allowed to colonize beyond the mountains. The prospect of discovering new lands put a vision into the American people to march forward.

For the next forty years, hundreds of thousands of people will move westward. From 1830 to 1840 people from the East moved to the West. Many of these people started on the Oregon Trail, that started in Independence, Missouri and ended in Willamette Valley in Oregon. Hundreds of Thousands of people moved west for the new land grant, which if you were a full Indian, or half Indian and eighteen or older you could have three-hundred and twenty acres of land for free. If you were married, you would get six-hundred and forty acres of land. For people that lived in the East, this land was practically gold. There are two other trails that need some recognition also, the Mormon Trail and the California Trail. All three trails started in Independence,

The Appalachians span over a distance of 1,600 miles, ranging across 14 states, from Newfoundland in the North, to Alabama in the South. The Appalachians are the oldest chain of mountains on the North American continent. With forest, comes forest fires, some natural and some prescribed by humans. In order to reduce the calamitous damage caused by natural wildfires, the technique of prescribed fires is used. This is done by diminishing the amounts of trees, shrubs, and brush in the intended area. By doing this, new native plant growth is encouraged and it helps maintain some plant and animal species that depend on the periodic fires. With this man made force comes numerous effects on vegetation, wildlife, and the human impact.

Life for settlers out on the Oregon Trail was very treasonous. It was a game between life and death. They had to find the perfect balance between taking rest and traveling. Some hardship they could have faced were the diseases. One person could have not been careful and attracted a disease and it could be contagious. Resulting in wiping out the whole community. This would have also slowed down their journey. Another hardship would be winter itself. Crossing the winter through the mountains could lead to many problems like the shortage of food, hypothermia, and death of the animals. In the summer, they could die from dehydration.

If you look at early Appalachian history, many of the earliest settlers in the mountains were of Irish decent. Their ancestors had originally migrated to northeastern America to escape religious persecution and eventually made their way south to the Appalachian Mountains, which they preferred because the area was similar in climate and geographic features to Ireland. Early settlers in the mountains had a Paganistic belief system and because of the geographic location of their settlements, were isolated from the outside world. In the early 1900s there weren’t roads, railroads, paths, etc. to travel into the mountains, which socially isolated groups living in those areas.

This book was quite difficult to read. The simple fact that it was written in 1896 is why the reader will have a little difficulty reading and comprehending this work, and the author is in no way at fault. Ross quotes extensively from source documents which proved to be very tedious. Not only was Ross a state representative during the time of Johnson's impeachment trial, but Ross' vote proved to be the final vote that would result in conviction or acquittal. His vote ultimately lost him the bid for re-election two years later. This work is a prime source document from 1896.

Migration of humans is not a new concept, from hunter gather tribes, to colonists of the Americas, to those migrating west on the Mormon, Oregon, and California trails. However, the motivations and end goals for those travelling westward differentiated them greatly. For those on the California trail: prosperity. For those heading to Utah on the Mormon trail: religious freedom. In the early republic, with new territory being acquired by the United States westward expansion was driven by population growth and economic opportunity. With cities growing larger, land was growing scarce once again. With the federal government selling land in the newly acquired territory, many took advantage and headed westward. Later on as the country neared the

Pennsylvania is a state situated in the middle-Atlantic regions and north eastern part of United States. The Appalachian Mountains passes in the middle of Pennsylvania. It is the sixth densely populated, 33rd largest and 6th known state from 50 united states. It is one of original 13 colonies, William Penn was the one founded Pennsylvania as a haven for his associated Quakers. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania capital, was the location of the both first and the second Continental Congresses in the year 1774 and 1775, the end of which brought the Announcement of Independence, leading to the American Revolution. Pennsylvania became the second state after the war, where Delaware was the first, to approve the United States Constitution. Pennsylvania

When he was 6 years old his family moved to Trail British Columbia a small town in southcentral B.C.

For the purpose of this assignment, I am going to discuss the Forest Service Trail Stewardship Act of 2015, H.R. 845 (the Horse, 2016). The bill was introduced on April 29, 2015 by Cynthia Lummis member of the Republican Party, representing the state of Wyoming and Tim Walz member of the Democratic Party, representing the state of Minnesota. The bill was introduced by the House of Representatives (the Horse, 2015, votesmart, 2016). The Senate Bill 1110 (S.1110), was introduced in bipartisan fashion in the U.S. Senate Bill 1110 (S.1110), (Back Country Horsemen of America, 2016). The bill was then sponsored by BCHA and members of The Wilderness Society and American Horse Council (Back Country Horsemen of America, 2016).