A fun and educational experience on your western road trip is to view old wagon ruts from the boom days of the Overland Trail and the Santa Fe Trail. Searching for old pioneer wagon ruts through the western U.S. and learning of the history about that era can be a fun vacation experience for the …
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The Land of Western Canada and the Hudson’s Bay Company Much of the settlement of Western Canada had it’s origins in the old Hudson’s Bay Company. In the earlier years, the Hudson’s Bay Company was said to have published a study declaring that the land in western Canada was unfit for agricultural purposes. Perhaps the …
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When we hear the name Studebaker the first thing we may think of are those unique automobiles with the front end bullet shaped noses. Those automobiles of the early 1950’s were produced by a company that started into business 100 years previously in South Bend Indiana from ancestors who had immigrated to America from Germany. …
