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Buckley, Jay H. “Exploring the Louisiana Purchase and Its Borderlands: The Lewis and Clark, Hunter and Dunbar, Zebulon Pike, and Freeman and Custis Expeditions in Perspective [Part 2].” We Proceeded On 47, no. 1 (February 2021): 12-22.
Buckley, Jay H. “Exploring the Louisiana Purchase and Its Borderlands: The Lewis and Clark, Hunter and Dunbar, Zebulon Pike, and Freeman and Custis Expeditions in Perspective [Part 1].” We Proceeded On 46, no. 3 (August 2020): 10-21.
BY JAY H. BUCKLEY N ext to grizzly bears and Mother Nature, the most feared enemy of American fur trappers traveling along the upper Missouri River were the Niitsitapi or Blackfeet, the "Original People" or "Prairie People."' The... more
In 1804, the Louisiana Purchase led to interest in expansion to the west coast. A few weeks after the purchase, President Thomas Jefferson, an advocate of western expansion, had the Congress appropriate funds for an expedition. Jefferson... more
A map drawn in 1805 by an Arikara diplomat sent by the Lewis and Clark Expedition to meet with President Jefferson provides a window into indigenous North American cartographic traditions and the use of Native American maps by the Corps... more
Buckley, Jay H. “William Clark, the Fur Trade, and Indian Affairs,” We Proceeded On 36, no. 4 (November 2020): 14-30.
doubled the size of America. Clark was instrumental in exploring this new territory, negotiating with its original inhabitants, encouraging American settlement, and establishing his home in St. Louis where he lived the remainder of his... more
Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark’s expedition is perhaps the best documented adventure of early American History. Named the Corps of Discovery, the goals of the mission were twofold: 1) to find a waterborne Northwest... more
Approaching the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail as a cultural landscape puts the 1805-1806 Expedition into a broader political, economic, ecological, and cultural context. By including indigenous histories, place names, routes,... more
Buckley, Jay H. “William Clark, the Fur Trade, and Indian Affairs,” We Proceeded On 36, no. 4 (November 2020): 14-30.
Sturdevant, Dan, and Jay H. Buckley. “Spanish Attempts to Apprehend Lewis and Clark.” We Proceeded On 45, no. 1 (February 2019): 18-25. Equal Author
Buckley, Jay H. “The Plains Commence: Lewis and Clark on the Middle Missouri.” NEBRASKAland Magazine [Special Issue – Lewis and Clark on the Missouri] 80, no. 7 (August-September 2002): 32-49.
“Short Tempers and Long Knives: Hostilities between the Blackfeet Confederacy and American Fur Trappers from 1806 to 1840.” We Proceeded On 39, no. 2 (May 2013): 8-18.
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Buckley, Jay H. “On the Historian’s Trail: Gary E. Moulton’s Lewis and Clark Odyssey.” We Proceeded On 45, no. 1 (February 2019): 8-16.
“On the Historian’s Trail: Gary E. Moulton’s Lewis and Clark Odyssey.” We Proceeded On 45, no. 1 (February 2019): 8-16.