With the nation a mere 43 years old, a party of “scientifick” explorers hurtled into the mysterious West and discovered a cornucopia of new life. In May 1819, a bizarre apparition headed west from Pittsburgh down the Ohio River, bound for the vast wilderness beyond the Mississippi. The steamboat beam for working in tight quarters, …
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