I found Robert Deleon’s post regarding, Murder on the Saltwater Frontier: The Death of John Oldham, to be very relatable to the topic that Benton discusses regarding rivers. Robert says, \u201cI found the article to be very informative on the early relations between the colonists and the native tribes.\u201d<\/a> In the Treacherous Places Chapter, Benton discusses that many colonists and early explorers had to depend on local guides for navigation of the rivers. In the article about the Saltwater Frontier, it was clearly stated that Indians were used as guides for ships attempting to navigate the Americas. This system of dependence on the native people for navigation is something I am interested in learning more about. It was eye opening to me when Benton claimed that most of the history on exploration in the Americans is viewed from the perspective of land travel. Yet, water ways were a large part of that history as well.<\/h1>\n

The allure of estuaries caused men to believe that trade and settlement would be prosperous. Unfortunately, in reality, they proved to be treacherous. Many men and animals drown in the rivers, and navigating upstream proved nearly impossible. The water was often bad and the soil was not ideal for planting. American rivers disappointed many early settlers. Something about the rivers and wilderness seemed to also bring out the worst in people. I am not sure if this was directly linked to the need to survive, competition for resources, or if people felt like they could do anything they wanted because they were far away from civilization. I would like to think it was a mixture of both. Benton says the rivers incurred a high level of betrayals and insubordination. The American rivers did not seem to be something explorers were prepared for.<\/h1>\n

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I found Robert Deleon’s post regarding, Murder on the Saltwater Frontier: The Death of John Oldham, to be very relatable to the topic that Benton discusses regarding rivers. Robert says, \u201cI found the article to be very informative on the early relations between the colonists and the native tribes.\u201d In the Treacherous Places Chapter, Benton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996401,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions\/996401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}