Articles written by Mary Trotter Kion

In the fur trade, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company is in competition with the American Fur Company, Hudson's Bay, and smaller new companies.

Apr 16, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Following the 1832 Mountain Man Rendezvous a battle breaks out between Mountain Men fur trappers and the Gros Ventres, a division of the Blackfeet Indians.

Apr 16, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Father Junipero Serra: Franciscan Missionary in California and major cause of the decline of California's Native American population.

Apr 13, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Prior to the official start of the Civil War, bloody battle break out in Kansas Territory between Free State and proslavery groups.

Apr 9, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Confederate Brigadier General Beauregard, in April of 1861, leads the attack on Fort Sumter, in Charleston, South Carolina harbor, signaling that the Civil War had begun.

Apr 6, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

An earthquake struck San Francisco, California on April 18, 1906. This major quake struck at 5:12 A.M. with a magnitude up to 8.3, lasting nearly one minute.

Apr 4, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Moses Austin starts a colony in Spanish Missouri, then travels to Texas and obtains a Spanish land grant there.

Apr 2, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Abolitionist John Brown, in 1856, led the mob that massacred five suspected pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.

Mar 30, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

The Mountain Man rendezvous of 1832 was held at Pierre's Hole. Hundreds of mountain men, trappers, Indians and fur company traders met to sell furs or trade for supplies.

Mar 27, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Roots of the American Civil War begin in 1619 when some Jamestown, Virginia residents buy twenty Africans.

Mar 20, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

General Pierre Beauregard, a Confederate general during the American Civil War, saw action at Fort Sumter, First Bull Run, First Manassa, Shiloh, Corinth, and Petersburg.

Mar 13, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Kansas-Nebraska Act sets stage for bloody violence between proslavery and free-soil fractions. Border Ruffians invade Kansas.

Mar 5, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

William Sublette, in 1822, makes his first fur-trading trip up the Missouri with William Ashley. With him are future mountain men Jedediah S. Smith and David E. Jackson.

Mar 3, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Legend has it that on the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands there lives Menehunes whose ancient ancestors were Leprechauns visiting from Ireland.

Mar 1, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

On Kauai, Menehunes build a watercourse to irrigate King Ola's taro patch, and a pond for their queen that can still be seen today.

Mar 1, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Lillie Hitchcock Coit was an eccentric lady of San Francisco and an honorary firefighter. She gambled, bet on horses, and was engaged to two men at the same time.

Feb 27, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

California desires to become a free state. Henry Clay proposes the Compromise of 1850 between North and South including a stronger fugitive slave law.

Feb 25, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

The Mexican War ends. The issue of Free Soil or Slave State in new territories arises. California Gold and The Wilmot Proviso.

Feb 23, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Missouri proposes to enter the Union as a slave state, instigating the Missouri Compromise. Maine enters the Union as a free state.

Feb 21, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Lillie Hitchcock Coit arranges for a boxing match to be held in her room at the Palace Hotel. On her death she leaves $100,000 to San Francisco.

Feb 21, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Captain Benjamin Bonneville's adventures in the fur trade of the Rocky Mountains and far West. Hudson Bay's depletion of beaver in Oregon Country.

Feb 19, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Abraham Lincoln's family came from England. The first of the Lincoln family to arrive in America was his grandfather, Samuel Lincoln, who settled in Massachusetts.

Feb 17, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

The Blackfoot Indians practiced the Sun Dance and had Vision Quests. Their enemies were the Crows, Sioux Shoshones, Flatheads, and the Kootenais, as well as the whites.

Feb 10, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

The Blackfoot Confederacy controlled a vast portion of the Pacific Northwest extending to the Rockies. With horses and guns they hunted the vast herds of buffalo.

Feb 9, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Ma Rainey, in the early 1920s, begins recording her music in New York and Chicago. Soon she is seen covered in diamonds.

Feb 7, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Ma Rainey performs in New Orleans with Joe "King" Oliver and Louis Armstrong. She sings in dance halls and saloons in Storyville.

Feb 6, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

In the fields of America's south slaves develop a work-singing rhythm known as Call and Response. Ma Rainey marries Pa Rainey.

Feb 5, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Gertrude Pridgett, later known as Ma Rainey the Mother of the Blues, grew up hearing folk music played by jugs and combs as well as church music.

Feb 4, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

African Americans weren't the only slaves in America. Native Americans were made slaves and Chinese girls were sold into prostitution.

Feb 3, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Why do we only have a Black History Month? Shouldn't all other nationalities whose ancestors immigrated to America have a month dedicated to studying their history.

Feb 2, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

The Ku Klux Klan holds national meeting. Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat. King and Malcolm X are assassinated. Watts Riots begin.

Jan 30, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Ma Rainey returns to Columbus and becomes a theatrical businesswoman. On December 22, 1939, Gertrude Pridgett 'Ma' Rainey died.

Jan 30, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Slave revolts through four centuries include Prosser, Turner and Vesey. Captured Blacks mutiny aboard the slave ship Amistad. Some 500 slaves revolt in Louisiana.

Jan 29, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Nancy Randolph weds Gouverneur Morris but his family attempts to interfere. They believe he should have consulted them before marrying.

Jan 27, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Murder is, once again, suspected when Richard Randolph dies. His wife, Judith, is suspected but she accuses Nancy Randolph.

Jan 26, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

After Nancy Randolph's murder trial her sister, Judith, continues to spy on Nancy and Richard, Judith's husband, to find out if they are continuing their love affair.

Jan 25, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Nancy Randolph and Richard Randolph are acquitted of murder, however Nancy's life thereafter in the Randolph home is reduced to less than that of a servant.

Jan 24, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Nancy Randolph and Richard Randolph stand trial for the murder of their newborn child. Patrick Henry and John Marshall defend them.

Jan 23, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

At a gathering of Randolphs, Nancy Randolph appears to be having hysterical fits in the night. A slave sees a dead infant being placed on the woodpile.

Jan 22, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

As Nancy Randolph's love affair continues with her brother-in-law, his wife and other family members begin to suspect that Nancy is pregnant.

Jan 21, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Nancy Randolph, cousin to John Randolph of Roanoke and related to Thomas Jefferson's daughter, commits adultery with her sister's husband.

Jan 20, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Nancy Randolph's nephew convinces John Randolph that she is having a lewd affair. Morris' will leaves it to Nancy as to how much each of his relatives should receive.

Jan 20, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

King meets and marries Coretta Scott. He is jailed during race riots in Montgomery. The King home is bombed. He receives the Spingarn Medal.

Jan 13, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Martin Luther King urges peaceful sit-ins. He meets Gandhi. King leads a "nonviolent army" protesting discrimination in Georgia and is jailed in Birmingham Alabama.

Jan 13, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. In striving for civil rights for Blacks he was jailed and received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Jan 13, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Martin Luther King speaks out against Vietnam and about the War on Poverty. He combined his civil-rights campaigns with a strong stand against the Vietnam War.

Jan 13, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

During the Mexican War, Jefferson Davis becomes known as The Hero of Buena Vista. The American Civil War begins and he is made President of the Confederacy.

Jan 8, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Jefferson Davis believes that slavery is necessary to establish the southern cotton trade and that emancipation will eventually come.

Jan 7, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Jefferson Davis' first wife dies shortly after their marriage. Some years later, he marries teenaged Varina Howell.

Jan 6, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion

Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy, is born in Kentucky. Years later he attends West Point and fights in the Black Hawk war.

Jan 5, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion