Springing from a desire to do physical historical tours throughout the Old Northwest Territory, we have changed our focus and are now offering virtual tours through our photography, graphics, DVD-Travel Tours, History DVDs, and books. We decided that our name, Old Northwest Frontier Tours, still applies to what we are doing, so we have kept the name.

Barbara Smits, writer and photographer, and Larry Schoenleber, graphic artist, working under the name DID YOU KNOW? MEDIA, endeavor to create a variety of works that fill a historical, educational, artistic and inspirational need. We live in the Old Northwest Territory near Green Bay, WI, so much of our effort is centered in the Old Northwest region. It holds enough adventure and interesting places to keeps us busy for a lifetime, and we hope that it will be of great interest to you.

We offer educational material for teachers, complete with Teacher's Guides. We keep expanding our offerings in this category, focusing on a broad list of subjects. We offer graphic art prints for framing.

Barbara Smits also does inspirational writing, poetry, and photography that has no boundaries except the spirit.

Larry Schoenleber excels in historical and western subject matter and has a great love for the George Armstrong Custer period of the Old West.

Herman Bender is President of the Hanwakan Center for Prehistoric Astronomy, Cosmology and Cultural Landscape Studies, Inc. He is an independent researcher with a background in geology and a technical field in industry. An amateur astronomer and historian, he has been nationally and internationally published in the fields of archeoastronomy, petrofrom research, applied geophysics and cultural landscape studies.

The Northwest Territory was ceded to the United States by Great Britain in 1782 and later became the states of Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and part of Minnesota.The Old Northwest Territory experienced an exciting and colorful history that included:

• Several Native American Tribes
  

• Indian Trails
  

• Indian Effigy Mounds
  

• Jesuit missionaries
  

• Voyageurs
  

• Frontier forts
  

• Military roads
  

• Pioneer Settlement
  

• Stage lines and stagecoach inns
  

• Lumbering
  

• Lead mining
  

• Black Hawk War of 1832
  

• Great Lakes sailing
  

• The Fox/Wisconsin waterway
  

• Lake Winnebago
  

• Horicon Marsh
  

• The mighty Mississippi River

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