These trips will take traveler back in time by Bob Downing HistoryAmerica Tours, inspired by Ken Burns' Civil War series, is offering 25 itineraries for 1999 Texas-based HistoryAmerica Tours wants to take you in the footsteps of Meriweather Lewis and William CIark, to visit Civil War battlefields, to cruise historic waterways and to see where Indians battled soldiers. Twelve of those trips are new. Its established trips include excursions to Apache battlefields in the Southwest and Civil War battlefields across the South, as well as Civil War steamboat cruises on the Mississippi River and Lincoln at the Gettysburg battlefield. You can follow in the footsteps of Benedict Arnold, George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse, Geronimo and Robert E. Lee.
Historians join tour directors on most trips.
The historian provides the information, while the director handles the logistics. The guides include such author-historians as Civil War expert and former chief historian with the National Park Service Edwin C. Bearss, baseball author Talmadge Boston, Indian wars specialist John D. McDermott, American West expert Neil Mangum and Civil War historian Robert E. Lee Krick. Meals and accommodations are provided. There is a suggested reading list that is distributed in advance. Each trip contains extras that a history buff traveling alone might not easily discover.