Manifesting Destiny

An Illustrated History Chronicling The Migration Of People Of African Descent In The Lands West of the 96 Meridian Which Comprise The Sovereign Nations of Mexico, The United States and the Dominion of Canada, From The Years 1528 To 1918

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1. Manifesting Destiny An Illustrated History Chronicling The Migration Of People Of African Descent In The Lands West of the 96 Meridian Which Comprise The Sovereign Nations of Mexico, The United States and the Dominion of Canada, From The Years 1528 To 1918 The West: Reconstructing The American Myth -A Work In Progress Featuring the series- Tuesday, October 9, 2012
2. The site of Robert Ball Anderson;s farm the 1st Black Homesteader in Nebraska Alliance, Box Butte County Tuesday, October 9, 2012
3. Farming community of Oklahoma Blacks migrating to northern Alberta, Canada 1880 -1912, Amber Valley, Alberta, Canada Tuesday, October 9, 2012
4. Roadside tree’s shrouded in a layer of fog. a joining America Newton’ Roadway outside of Julian, in San Diego County, California America Neuton's property, she was an Early Black landowner in the Mountains east of San Diego, Tuesday, October 9, 2012
5. Leroy who was an employee of Angel ranch was involved in an altercation with friends of his Indigenous common law wife precipitating the Winton Indian War. Angel Ranch, Humboldt County, California, Tuesday, October 9, 2012
6. Beckwourth Pass, Plumas County, California The lowest passage over the Sierra Nevada and part of a proposed commercial venture by James Beckwourth Tuesday, October 9, 2012
7. Buffalo Soldier Hill, off of NM State Route 116 in Roosevelt County, New Mexico The western most point of travel of the 1877 Lost Nolan Expedition Tuesday, October 9, 2012
8. Just east of the cemetery on the outskirts of Carrizal, Chihuahua where members of the 10th Calvary were interred in unmarked graves Site of the 10th Calvary's engagement with Caranza's troops as part of General Pershings punitive Expedition Tuesday, October 9, 2012
9. Wagon Tracks to A Far Off Butte, The view along St. Peter’s Mission Road. Cascade, Montana Mary Field “Stagecoach Mary” passed this way daily during her time as a freight hauler for the Ursuline Nuns at the Saint peter’s Mission, Cascade Montana Tuesday, October 9, 2012
10. Iglesia San José de Gracia Las Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico Melchor Rodríguz, the son of Sebastian Rodríguz, was one of the first twelve families with Hispanic surnames who settled in the village of Las Trampas. The twelve Las Trampas families lived in the Analco District of Santa Fe before 1751 Tuesday, October 9, 2012
11. “A Lone Headstone Stands Alone In A Crow Farmers Fallow Field” Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Montana Gravestone of Custer's interpreter, Isaiah Dorman Tuesday, October 9, 2012
12. From The Heights of the Black Mountains (Arizona) looking down into the Mojave Valley (Arizona & Nevada) of the Colorado River with California and the Piute Range in the far distance. Polette Labross and several other men working for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company (working under the direction of Jeddiah Smith) lost their life in an engagement with the Mojaves on the colorado River.. Tuesday, October 9, 2012
13. Las Moras Springs , Fort Clark, Brackettville, Texas. Site of encampment of Seminole Negro Indian Scouts at Fort Clark Brackettvile, Tx Tuesday, October 9, 2012
14. The Pecos River just north of it's confluence with the Rio Bravo de Norte, in Val Verde County Texas Texas Seminole Negro Scouts John Ward and Pompey Factor and Trumpeter Isaac Payne were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for saying the life of their commander, Lieutenant John L. Bullis while under hostile fire in this river bottom Tuesday, October 9, 2012
15. Brown's Valley, CA , northern gold fields Rare, Ripe Silver and Gold Mine, Brown's Valley, California Tuesday, October 9, 2012
16. The Salt River Canyon, as seen from the heights of Arizona State rte. route 77. In 1889 the noted American artist Frederic Remington wrote about and provided illustrations on his time with the Buffalo Soldiers on a “scout” around the San Carlos Reservation. The Salt River, forms a boundary between the Fort Apache Indian Reservation to the north and the San Carlos Indian Reservation to the south. Tuesday, October 9, 2012
17. The North Platte River, looking west towards the Rocky Mountains. George Washington Bush passed near here as he followed the river on his journey to the northwest along the Oregon Trail. Tuesday, October 9, 2012
18. Looking down on the lower trail linking Santa Fe and Taos (in the Upper Rio Grande Valley) As seen from the high road to Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the Taos Uprising of 1846 Governor Charles Bent and a number of Americans were killed. Dick Green the enslaved African servant of Governor Bent traveled to Santa Fe to sound the alarm as well as guiding a party of armed American reinforcements back to Taos. Tuesday, October 9, 2012
19. Mission Espiritu Santo, Goliad State Historical Park, Goliad, Texas Samuel McCulloch Jr. was a free black soldier in the Texas Revolution. On October 9 he fought at Goliad and was severely wounded Tuesday, October 9, 2012
20. Point Saint George lighthouse where the Brother Johnathan sank of of Cressent City, California Tuesday, October 9, 2012
21. Lincoln, New Mexico (the upper valley). The small settlement of Lincoln where Black troops, conflicting commercial interests, ranchers, Billy the Kid, and gunmen both Tuesday, October 9, 2012
22. Leased cornfield, Nicodemus, KS One of a number of eventually unsuccessful Black towns Tuesday, October 9, 2012
23. Looking east from one mile below the summit, Maricopa Pass, Arizona. Maricopa Pass (route of Anza in his expedition to California) Tuesday, October 9, 2012
24. Mission San Miguel Archangel San Miguel, CA Along the El Camino Real where Fremont, Dobson and Pico rode from Monterey to Los Angeles and Back (over 600 miles) ….. Tuesday, October 9, 2012
25. Bear Valley, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Last recorded engagement of hostiles and US Calvary Tuesday, October 9, 2012
26. Railroad siding, Pampa, Texas. Site of Bones Hooks famous Tuesday, October 9, 2012
27. Tucson, AZ in the distance covered by early morning fog. Various African-American Settlers/pioneers as well as Blacks in Spanish Tuesday, October 9, 2012
28. Hawikuh, as seen from Ojo Caliente Estavan, an enslaved North African assigned to the led of the Fray Marcos de Niza's expedition, was the first non-native to visit Hawikuh, in 1539. He also met his death there, and by doing so became enshrined in European history as well as Zuni myth. Tuesday, October 9, 2012
29. Isabel de Olvera, a servant in the expedition of Juan Guerra de Resa , became the first free woman of African Ancestry to venture into Northern New Spain . she would have traversed this area as part of her trip in 1600 as she traveled along this portion of the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, known as the The Jornada del Muerto. The Jornada runs between the Oscura and San Andres Mountains on the east, with the Caballo Mountains and the Fra Cristóbal Range on the west. Tuesday, October 9, 2012
30. A statue of Father Junipero Serra remains, gazing over Fisherman’s Wharf with benevolence, on the same spot where he performed his first mass in Monterey. Planted nearby is a humble wooden cross that memorializes the first European to be buried in Monterey, Alex Nino, Tuesday, October 9, 2012
31. Rancho Napa (Trancas Blvd Bridge over Milliken Creek) which is just to he south and west of the rancho Napa hacienda site, the home of Salvador and Maria de la Luz Carrillo, the grand daughter of María Feliciana Arballo Tuesday, October 9, 2012
32. Sam McDonald came to the Palo Alto area in 1901, he worked in a variety of jobs eventually becoming superintendent of athletics buildings and grounds at Stanford as well as being appointed a deputy marshal in the adjacent town of Mayfield.in the surround town Tuesday, October 9, 2012
33. Salt Flat, New mexico The San Elizario Salt War was a dispute between the Anglo commercial inters in El Paso, TX against that of the commercial interests of the more traditionally minded Hispanic resident in the surrounding border communities. The Buffalo Soldiers from Fort Bliss were eventually brought in to restore order. Tuesday, October 9, 2012