During the summer of 2022 (May 1 through September 30) I have a series of daily posts planned for social media for the California Trail Interpretive Center. These posts will take the readers on a "virtual road trip" along the California Trail encompassing approximately the same time period that emigrants followed it from 1841 to [...]
Category: U.S. History
Social Media Posts for April 2022
Here are the Trail history posts that I wrote for April for the California Trail Interpretive Center. For Frontier Fridays in April we're looking at preparations emigrants made to make the journey to California. Then beginning May 1 we'll be posting every day through September 30, following a "virtual road trip" along the Trail. April [...]
Social Media Posts for March, 2022
The social media posts I wrote for the California Trail Interpretive Center for March were in honor of Women's History month. I chose simply to relate the experiences for four women as they passed through the Elko, Nevada region during their emigration to California in the mid-1800's. I traced their progress from near present-day Wells, [...]
February Social Media Posts
These are the Facebook posts I wrote for Black History month (February) for the California Trail Interpretive Center. February 4 For Black History month (February), we are looking at some African American experiences associated with the western emigration along the overland trails. Mary Ellen Pleasant self-identified herself as "a capitalist" in the 1890 census. She [...]
January Social Media Posts
Here are the history-related posts that I put together for the California Trail Interpretive Center for the month of January. For Frontier Fridays in January, we'll take a look at some history of the Applegate Trail. The Applegate Trail begins about 35 miles southwest of Winnemucca, Nevada, travels through the Black Rock Desert into Northern [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 