>>EXCERPT ONE— Multiracial Pioneers: A group of pioneers left Missouri in search of a new life at the end of the Oregon Trail. The co-leaders of the group were George Washington Bush, a military man, trapper, wheat farmer and free Black American and his good friend Michael T. Simmons, a white Irish-American, Arriving from Missouri they found that the Oregon Territory, had recently enacted laws making it illegal for Bush to settle there because of his skin color.
>>EXCERPT TWO — “Here, also, between the plains and the mountains, was the dark and sanguinary ground where terrific and deadly combats were fought between the Delawares, Iroquois, Crows, and Blackfeet,and between the trappers and Indians.”