Worthy of note is British surveyor/explorer David Thompson's "Bend of the Missouri" map that found it's way into Thomas Jefferson's hands and located the Lewis and Clark Expedition's first year's objective of reaching the Mandan Village to overwinter before proceeding onward to the Pacific.

I've heard it said that Jefferson thought it would take 1000 years to settle the whole continent - instead, it was done by the end of the century, with the Census Bureau declaring the frontier closed in 1890.

Alexander Mackenzie's trek across North America would also be a great topic to cover.

Fantastic coverage of American history

Well if I’m Coulter and I walk into Yellowstone…. I’m definitely gonna stay a few years longer too. What a beautiful place to come across and map!

The Hudsons Bay Company and the Northwest Company mapped a lot of this before. At least much of the Columbia.

September 23rd, 13 years 2 months and 1 day after Alexander Mackenzie did the exact same thing in Canada.

I think I might be distantly related to William Clark. I just haven't figured out exactly how yet. One line of my mom's family was in Missouri in the early 1800s. I have a great-aunt named Louisa Miner, who was born in Missouri in 1837. And somewhere along the line her last name became Clark. And she passed away in Iowa. That line of the family would end up in Washington state a few years later. Edit. Now I'm extremely curious. I have a 9th great grandfather who was a Mayflower passenger. His Grandson married William Bradford's grand-daughter, (my 7th great Grandmother.) They had a son named Zebulon, my 6th great grandfather. That's a really rare name in America.

As a student of Anthropology, I love this story because they would become, for me, the first anthropologists of the United States, as well as the first ethnologists and explorers who should be considered by anthropology all over the world, and not just Bronislaw Malinowski and contemporary anthropologists.

Could you do a video comparing american westeard expansion to russian eastward expansion?

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Awesome content. Thank you

Do a video on Utah plzzz

where can we find a good quality version of this map to buy?

Those Indians on the boat. That is not at all what the boats looked like. They have models of the boats at Norfork AR.

Great content!!! I can find no references to how these explorers find reference points for map drawings.. In any time period!!! .NO GPS!!!... ASTROLOGIC??? THE GREAT ARC???

It was Spanish territory, then France before it was US territory. How did just the “Americans” displace natives?

Can you do a video on Israel 🇮🇱 really being in Africa like the Bible and most of those sites are in Africa

nos confunden it’s a channel on YT would love to get your views on it. is the channel a whole bunch of baloney ?

Every time or read something about how this or that set off the destruction, or demise of the native Americans, I usually delete, or skip it. When Lewis, and Clark went West, and the French before them, as well as the Spanish before them to the South, they didn't set out to destroy etc. etc. the native Americans. The native American's warred with, and among each other much like; I'll call them the Tribes of the European Continent, the difference being the European's sought to kill each other on the battle field, they were not interested in torturing, or multination. In almost every instance where the US military or local settlers set out to make war on 'native Americans was in response to a massacre of a family, or small settlement on the prairie, when that happened there was absolutely no morality, or mercy shown, all were murdered, unless usually children were taken as captive slaves. The native 'American' squaws certainly did not want should i say 'European' women (I'll use that description, since i suppose they're not considered native American) taken captive, if they were taken captive the native 'American' squaws usually deformed the non - native American women's faces heinously. If you have the notion that you are going to present early 19th century geography, you should present early 19th history in context. I suggest you study how the boundaries upon the global map have changed countless times in the past 200 + years as a result of war, both when war was necessary, and when it wasn't..

Ha! The Yanks never did succeed in covering 'the whole .... northern continent', let alone the southern!