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For the Applegates and their fellow travelers, the Oregon Trail promised a golden ticket to the land of milk and honey. The reality, however, proved to be far grimmer.
Klondike Gold Rush

Edmund Halley: Scientific Giant



SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: British Engineer
British industry could fuel the British empire when engineers like Isambard Brunel connected the modern world.
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ADVENTURERS & TRAILBLAZERS
Richard Halliburton and Moye Stephens: Traveling Around the World in the "Flying Carpet"
When Richard Halliburton needed a new kind of travel adventure to write about, Lindbergh's transatlantic flight inspired him to fly to the far corners of the world. But he would do so with a latter-day 'Flying Carpet.'
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EXPEDITIONS
Richard E. Byrd and the 1925 MacMillan Arctic Expedition
The MacMillan Arctic Expedition marked the first productive use of aircraft in Arctic exploration by Americans and brought Richard Byrd into the national limelight.
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GREAT MIGRATIONS
The Quaker Migration: Friends Find Peace in Pennsylvania
When the Restoration Parliament enacted the Clarendon Code, its restrictive provisions effectively criminalized the practice of the nonconformist church. In search of tolerance for themselves and others, through the late 1600s thousands of Quakers found a new life in the Delaware Valley.
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WESTWARD EXPANSION
Martin Company: Mormon Pioneers Used Handcarts to Trek to Salt Lake City
Some 150 people from the Martin Company of handcart-pushing Mormon emigrants died during the 1856 trek to Salt Lake City.
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