{"id":13895,"date":"2012-04-26T17:24:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T23:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13895"},"modified":"2016-09-18T09:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T06:05:25","slug":"the-museum-of-westward-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/the-museum-of-westward-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Museum of Westward Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Museum of Westward Expansion is located at the base of the Arch and is free. It’s not free with admission to the Arch, but free period. I couldn’t believe that considering the quality of the exhibits!<\/p>\n

\"entrance<\/a>

entrance to the museum<\/p><\/div>\n

\"about<\/a>

about the museum<\/p><\/div>\n

\"prophetic<\/a>

prophetic words about New Orleans<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I found these words by Jefferson to be ironic because his country has all of that and is still very unhappy<\/p><\/div>\n

\"this<\/a>

this ad for mail order brides caught my attention<\/p><\/div>\n

\"In<\/a>

In 1860, the US’s population was just under 31.5 million, which is just about Canada’s population today!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"1867<\/a>

1867 is Canada’s Conferation Year. I am very impressed that this sign mentions that. In fact, there is a ton of Canadian history interspersed on this series of signs.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"close<\/a>

close up the 1867 sign<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I loved this pensive image of Lincoln<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I snapped this one because that’s the year the Klondike Gold Rush began (it’s noted on the sign)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"ironic<\/a>

ironic words from Orville Wright, who hoped that his flying machine would end the need for war<\/p><\/div>\n

\"FDR's<\/a>

FDR’s recipe for world peace<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lewis,<\/a>

Lewis, about penetrating into uncharted wilderness<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lewis,<\/a>

Lewis, about his first meeting with Sacawagea<\/p><\/div>\n

\"stage<\/a>

stage coach<\/p><\/div>\n

\"a<\/a>

a migrant worker took to the road because it did not want someone else to feed him<\/p><\/div>\n

\"there<\/a>

there were several of these eerily lifelike robots that moved, spoke, and even blinked!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"inside<\/a>

inside of a settler’s cabin<\/p><\/div>\n

\"cowboys<\/a>

cowboys are apparently part human…<\/p><\/div>\n

\"thoughts<\/a>

thoughts on reaching the imaginary line between east and west (I feel it very much here, on the banks of the Mississippi)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"wagon\"<\/a>

wagon<\/p><\/div>\n

\"the<\/a>

the wagon trains compared to great serpents<\/p><\/div>\n

\""All<\/a>

“All this we have overcome now and we are in the golden land.” J.P. Taylor<\/p><\/div>\n

\"giant<\/a>

giant ship’s wheel<\/p><\/div>\n

\"General<\/a>

General Sheridan felt that westward expansion would only succeed after all the buffalo were gone.<\/p><\/div>\n

\""War<\/a>

“War is Hell”, General Sherman<\/p><\/div>\n

\""Taps"<\/a>

“Taps” played for the last time for General Sherman<\/p><\/div>\n

\"the<\/a>

the face of the Depression-era migrant works; I can’t believe she was about my age<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Thomas<\/a>

Thomas Jefferson<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Museum of Westward Expansion is located at the base of the Arch and is free. It’s not free with admission to the Arch, but free period. I couldn’t believe that considering the quality of the exhibits!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,1032,635,5,1365,3,16],"tags":[804],"class_list":["post-13895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-missouri","category-north-america","category-rving","category-st-louis","category-travel","category-usa","tag-history-museums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}