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1883. (TV series) 1883 is an American Western drama miniseries created by Taylor Sheridan that premiered on December 19, 2021, on Paramount+. The series stars Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Sam Elliott, Isabel May, LaMonica Garrett, Marc Rissmann, Audie Rick, Eric Nelsen, and James Landry Hébert. The story is chronologically the first of several ...
Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery , in Port Tobacco , Charles County, Maryland , he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario ) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden , in Kent County , Upper Canada , of Ontario .
Followed by. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American ...
Captain Matthew Webb (19 January 1848 – 24 July 1883) was an English seaman, swimmer and stuntman. He is the first recorded person to swim the English Channel for sport without the use of artificial aids. In 1875, Webb swam from Dover to Calais in less than 22 hours. This made him a celebrity, and he performed many stunts in public.
List of crossings of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes. List of crossings of the Saint Louis River. List of crossings of the Savannah River. List of crossings of the Snake River. List of crossings of the South Branch Potomac River. List of crossings of the St. Johns River. List of crossings of the Susquehanna River.
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul, many years after the war.
Powder River Crossing was the fifth stage stop after Fort Fetterman. On May 13, 1879, the army allowed the old sutler's store and one of the cavalry stables from Cantonment Reno to be used as a store and eating house at Powder River Crossing. An English traveler stayed at the store on August 30, 1880, and left a description:
02000529 and 02000530. Added to NRHP. May 22, 2002 [1] The North Entrance Road Historic District comprises Yellowstone National Park 's North Entrance Road from Gardiner, Montana to the park headquarters at Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming, a distance of a little over five miles (8 km). The North Entrance Road was the first major road in the park ...