An Audience with the Shogun
After months of planning and traveling from the Dutch colony of Deshima to Edo, the capital of Japan, or Dai Nippon (Great Kingdom of the...
The Fisherman and the Sea Creature
With heavy taxes due to the Shogun to support the upper classes, the peasants were often strapped for money to feed their own families...
The “Unhappy Man” Francis Heron
It was a cold miserable January month in 1834 at Fort Nisqually. Francis Heron, a Chief Trader for Hudson’s Bay Company and manager at...
