Missouri River Essays

The Mandan Tribe The Mandan tribe is extremely important to U.S. history. The tribe was highly intelligent in their lifestyle. They are also most famously known for coming in contact with Lewis and Clark. Their chief at the time, Chief Shahaka is also known for traveling with Lewis and Clark to visit President Thomas Jefferson. The Mandan are an American Indian group located in North Dakota, their aboriginal home. Unlike many Indian tribes, the "Mandan," despite various spellings, have been known

Name:Karanvir Grewal The Mandan tribe is a semi-nomadic tribe that lived in North Dakota, near the Missouri River in the Great Plains. They are still here even today. The Mandan are famous for their beadwork, hide paintings, quillwork, and most of all tattoos. The Mandan are farmers, but are also hunters. They refer to themselves as the Numakiki which means people. This makes the Mandan

Why did the Donner Party get stuck in the Sierra Nevada Mountains? In April of 1846 90 emigrants led by Jacob and George Donner left Springfield Illinois in hopes of using a quicker, shorter route to Oregon. The party took the regular trail up to Ft. Bridger, Wyoming. There they were supposed to meet a trail guide, Lansford Hastings, to take them but he was gone, leading another party along the mountains. There was a note for the Donner’s to follow a trail to Weber Canyon, Hasting claimed it was

journal: “passed a very bad part of the River Called the Deavels race ground, this is where the Current Sets against some projecting rocks for half a Mile on the Labd. Side, passed between a Isld. And the Lbd. Shore a narrow pass above this Isld. Is a very bad part of the river, We attempted to pass up under the Lbd. Bank which was falling in so fast that the evident danger obliged us to cross between the Starbd Side nand a Sand bar in the middle of the river, We hove up near the head of the Sand bar

Louis Area Code 314 St. Louis is the second-largest city in Missouri after Kansas City. It has an estimated population of 308,000 people and covers 66 square miles along the Missouri River in the eastern part of the state. St. Louis is an independent city, meaning that it doesn’t belong to any counties, and area code 314 includes the cities of Maryland Heights, Hazelwood, Saint Ann, and others as well. St. Louis is important in Missouri and the entire Midwest, and it sits 248 miles from Kansas City

Corps of Discovery) began preparing for the trip shortly after in St. Louis, Missouri. Jefferson’s purpose for commissioning the expedition was to find a water route from the Mississippi River which connected to the Columbia River, which would in turn connect to the Pacific Ocean. This would allow Jefferson access to port markets outside of the Gulf of Mexico and access to eastern cities along the coast of the Ohio River. His secondary objectives were to map the area and provide information about

Trail” is a novel that was published in 1849. In this novel, it describes the journey that the author (Francis Parkman) took across The Oregon Trail. The Oregon Trail is a route to the Northwest that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. It crossed through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon. There was originally a lot more to this book, but the author had to take some of the information out because it was too rough for the public to read. Francis Parkman

to gather supplies and train the participates. The men trudged the Missouri river while fighting off insects, hot temperatures, injuries and rushing water. Winter for the group was filled

expedition spanned over 8,000 miles in a three year period. They took the Corps of Discovery, which was the name of the expedition party, down the Ohio River, then up the Missouri River, across the Continental Divide, down the Columbus River and to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and Clark along with their expedition began their journey near St. Louis, Missouri in May 1804. Throughout this journey the Corps of Discovery suffered nearly every obstacle one could think of. They dealt with harsh weather, horrible

help accomplish the journey they 've been requested to take. Having each of their strengths combined they needed a crew to make the trek successful. Lewis wondered through the deep thicket of the uncharted land when Clark fixed his eyes across the rivers and rich earth untouched lands mapping every thing he could imagine. The two strong men together were unstoppable, their attributes combined to make a good strong management for the other men to look up to in times of trouble or solitude. Lewis

Louis by March 1806. On the journey back home, Lewis and Clark took the Columbus river, but faced harassment from the Chinookan Indians. At this point, going around the Great Falls seemed to be a problem. The men constantly had to return to the Nez Perce tribe for assistance, because the Americans could not get around the mountains and

Fight Club Argumentative Essay In a decade where emasculation was an issue for many males, Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club attempted to address the problem. In the novel, a group named Fight Club (which later evolved into Project Mayhem) tried to give men the feeling of power that they were so desperately lacking for many years. Fight Club was a group created by the narrator to help restore the feeling of masculinity and power to men, which prepared them for Project Mayhem by allowing them to

Lord of the Flies Jack represents being power hungry and disobedient for the incorrect reasons In the book Lord of the flies, there are several things that connect the earth right now and human expertise. In the book most of the boys go through a phase that they never went through before, through out the book they're going through a "animal-like" phase that I feel the reader does not expect from them. I decided a decision} to concentrate on Jack because I believe that he was a lot more animal-like

Summary Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World aims to help people actualize their dreams of an outdoor adventure. Bass Pro Shops is many things; it is a museum, an aquarium, an art gallery, an antique shop, a conservation and education center and most importantly a destination retailer. Bass Pro Shops is the leading retailer of outdoor gear and has more then 1 million visitors a year. Industry retailers agree that Bass Pro Shops is a master marketer when it comes to destination retailers. Destination retailers

Brett Favre was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on October 10, 1969. He was the second of four boys, and he grew up in the wilds of bayou country. He enjoyed hunting and fishing with his three brothers. In school, Brett, like his siblings, showed a passion and talent for baseball and football. Favre seemed to be a better baseball player, as Brett took a spot in the starting rotation for Hancock North Central in the eighth grade. As the son of a tough-nosed football coach, Favre demonstrated a gift

If there’s one thing that every Kansas Citian knows and loves, it's sports. With many successful professional teams, intense college rivalries and a plethora of youth and high school sports, everyone has an investment in local athletics. And while the classics– football, soccer and baseball– have held our citizens' investment in an iron grip, a new sport has been growing steadily behind the scenes: lacrosse. The Kansas City Metro Girls Lacrosse Association (KCMGLA), established in 2011, was

William Mays Junior was born on May 6, 1931, in Westfield Alabama. The father of Willie Mays was a steelworker who played centerfield for the local Birmingham industrial league semi-pro team.His mother was a high school track star and it was clear from a very early age that Willie Mays had gotten lots of his athletics from his parents. According to his father, Mays learned to walk at six months, and soon thereafter he and Mays were playing catch with each other. The instructions he gave to Mays were

oodbye Lenin!, set in East Berlin during the crash of the Berlin Wall opens up the eyes of viewers to the harships endured in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, which was governed by communist rule. It focuses on the life of Alexander Beyer, a young man from East Berlin. This essay will address the images of Germany, the Germans and the “Germanness” the film presents and the relevance of these images to the present day viewer. The historical context of Goodbye Lenin is the prevailing

expensive school to get into if I don’t have good enough test scores for somethings, especially scholarships. If my Mizzou dream fails, I hope to attend Missouri State- Springfield or Missouri Southern State University. Maybe I’ll even follow in my parents, sister, and aunt and uncle’s footsteps and attend college in Cape Girardeau at Southeast Missouri State University. It will be a long path. Who knows, in the future I might even change my mind, but right now I am passionate about what I plan to do

Research Paper for Alvin Ailey Biography Born in Texas, on January 5, 1931, Alvin Ailey was one of the greatest black modern dancer-choreographer in the United States whose works continue to resonate with audiences worldwide. His mother was only 17 years old when he was born, and his father left the family soon after his birth, so Alvin grew up poor in Navasota, the small Texas town with his mother. Despite the racism and poor economic conditions, Ailey enjoyed the abundance of entertainment