The “Great Wagon Road” was an improved trail through the Great Appalachian Valley from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, and from there to Georgia.  The heavily traveled Great Wagon Road was

One of the first Indian attacks on the Virginia colonists occurred in 1609.  The results were gruesome.  Many of you that are familiar with Virginia history recall that the “Starving

Speaking of Frontiersmen… Andrew Lewis (October 9, 1720 – September 26, 1781) was an pioneer, surveyor, and soldier of Colonial Virginia. He rose to the rank of colonel of militia

Recently I’ve shared information concerning the Shawnee religion (from a white man’s perspective), the Shawnee alphabet, marriage customs of some Algonquin tribes and Shawnee parenting.  I would like to share

Thomas Alford Wildcat –On the Shawnee Educating Their Children Recently I shared information concerning the Shawnee religion (from a white man’s perspective), the Shawnee alphabet, and marriage customs of some

From time to time, history enthusiasts get the chance to look at medicinal cures that have been used in the past.  With that in mind, I would like to share

Puritan Pastor Jonathan Edwards is often associated with just one of his sermons titled, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”  While the title of the sermon sets off

I often post about the frontier and frontier warfare between Native Americans and frontiersmen.   When frontiersmen were killed by Native Americans, it was massacre, but Indian deaths were seldom referred