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The Peoria Party (/ p i ˈ ɔːr i ə / pee-OR-ee-ə) was a group of men from Peoria in the U.S. state of Illinois, who set out about May 1, 1839, with the intention to colonize the Oregon Country on behalf of the United States and to drive out the English fur-trading companies operating there.
Name Occupation Alt. names Death date (YYYY-MM-DD) [note 1] Notes Henry Adling: Gentleman Adding, H. Jerome Alicock: Gentleman Alikok Ancient, Jeremy 1607–08–04 Slain by natives [10] Gabriel Archer: Captain and Gentleman Archer, Gabriell 1609 or 1610 winter Secretary to the Council (lawyer) [11] John Asbie: 1607–08–06
Daniel Boone Escorting the American Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham (1851–52). American pioneers, also known as American settlers, were European American, [1] Asian American, [2] and African American [3] settlers who migrated westward from the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States of America to settle and develop areas of the nation within the continent of ...
M. Joseph Martin (general) Maryland Ridge Community (Indiana) George Mathews (soldier) John Mathews (American pioneer) William Mayfield; Clara Antoinette McCarty Wilt
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Daniel Boone (November 2 [O.S. October 22], 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
The poem, Landing of the Pioneers, was written sixty years after the landing by Frances Dana Gage, and included in her book of poems published in 1867. [13] The poem, The Founders of Ohio , was written in 1888 during the centennial of the event by William Henry Venable , and was published later in several books of poems.
The group was founded as the Society of Arizona Pioneers on January 31, 1884, by physician John C. Handy, his father-in-law William Fisher Scott, and 58 other Tucson pioneers. [ 3 ] With a new railroad being built and change on its way to Tucson, Arizona, pioneers worried that their stories of battles with the desert heat and the Apaches would ...