For over two decades, we have been tailoring comprehensive bus and walking tours to the hallowed sites where American history unfolded. By laying eyes upon the scene, and walking the ground in conversation with the most authoritative and passionate guides, we gain a fuller understanding of the events that transpired there.

Our 2025 and 2026 tours have been finalized

MAY 2025 (conference)

Seldom Heard History of the Civil War Era
The 2nd Annual Central Coast Conference

May 2-4, 2025. A full weekend of presentations in the Stanton Center Theater in beautiful Monterey, California. The Stanton Center is situated on the Custom House Plaza, bordering the Monterey State Historic Park. The lineup of speakers and registration information will be posted here on the 4th of July (click HERE to read about the 2024 conference).

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Also featuring a presentation on Colonel Allen Allensworth, who escaped slavery during the Civil War and joined the Union Navy. He was later instrumental in the founding of Allensworth, a historic California town financed and governed by African Americans (now a jewel in the California State Park system). Friends of Allensworth President Sasha Biscoe will deliver a presentation on this "seldom heard" chapter of California and U.S. history. 

JUNE 2025 (tour)
The Corps of Discovery
Exploring the Lewis & Clark Trail
June 16-25, 2025

A ten-day expedition following the route of the Corps of Discovery through some of the most stunning landscapes of the American West. Custom, guided tour beginning and ending in Great Falls, Montana.
SEATING IS LIMITED — reserve your seat on the van with a deposit — REGISTRATION INFO
Lewis and Clark at Three Forks by Edgar Samuel Paxson, 1912, oil on canvas, 81 x 153 inches, Montana State Capitol (House lobby). Individuals from left are Coulter, guide; York, Clark's servant; Captain Meriwether Lewis; Captain William Clark; Sacagawea; Charbonneau, Sacagawea's husband. 

OCTOBER 2025 (tour)
Strangers in their Own Land
The Apache Tragedy in Old Arizona and New Mexico
October 13-20, 2025 luxury van tour with Neil Mangum

SEATING IS LIMITED — reserve your seat on the van with a deposit — REGISTRATION INFO
Starting and ending in Phoenix, this one-of-a-kind tour will explore a broad array of Arizona Apache Wars sites, including a number of museums and the ruins of the Warm Springs and San Carlos Agencies, sites associated with Crook's Tonto Basin Campaign, and the Cibecue Creek battlefield. 
The tour also includes strong emphasis on the Chiracahua Apache with visits to Cochise's Stronghold, Fort Bowie and Apache Pass, and the Geronimo Surrender Monument. Additionally (because we're there) we'll see two Civil War battlefields (Valverde, and Picacho Peak), the astounding Pima Air & Space Museum, and historic Tombstone.

Future Tours (to be added to the calendar soon)

Oppenheimer in New Mexico
Santa Fe, Los Alamos, and the Trinity Test Site

Tour begins and ends in Albuquerque. We'll spend one day in Los Alamos at the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, visit the Bradbury Musuem, and take guided tours of "Bathtub Row" and Manhattan Project facilities. Additional stops include secret sites in Santa Fe, and the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque. Final day of the tour is devoted to the Trinity Site, where the world's first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 (this site is only open to the public on two days per year).  

The Wilderness & Spotsylvania

Hiking tour with historian Gordon Rhea

On this entirely unique, four-day tour, Gordon will conducts hikes along every step of the NPS trails on these two battlefields, interpreting along the way. He'll also take the group to some rarely-seen private sites, to discuss the monumental opening battles of Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Headquarters hotel will be in Fredericksburg, Virginia. 

Other tours in the hopper . . .

— The Flight of the Nez Perce (Spokane to Great Falls)
— The Modoc War of 1872-1873
​— The Battles of the Rosebud, and Little Bighorn
​— Civil War to Cold War in New Mexico
​— The Portolá Expedition of 1769-1770