Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 39 ancestors 37 slave 36 descendents 36 descendants 36 forebears 35 descendant 35 retracing 34 forever 34 ancestor 34 retraces 33 retraced 33 Phoenicians 33 vanished 32 forgotten 32 destiny 32 grandfather 32 sharecropper 32 descendent 32 generations 32 mysteriously disappeared 32 slaves 31 emigrant 31 lifelong 31 disappeared 31 waved goodbye 30 retrace 30 steamboat 30 explorers 29 artifact 29 hunter gatherers 29 adventurer 29 Meriwether Lewis 29 fate 29 enslaved 29 watery grave 29 forefathers 29 steamboats 29 journey 29 lovable losers 29 blacksmith 29 beloved 28 slavery 28 fates 28 grandfathers 28 traced 28 journeying 28 hitchhiked 27 sharecroppers 27 everlasting 27 lifetime 27 seafaring 27 pre Columbian 27 infamy 27 true 27 indentured 27 ancestral 27 birthright 27 steamship 27 long 27 Confederate soldier 27 grandparents 27 grandmothers 27 journeyed 27 direct descendant 26 intrepid 26 vicariously 26 trekked 26 nameless 26 destinies 26 finally 26 torturous 26 treasured 26 emancipated 26 arduous journey 26 southward 26 odyssey 26 miller 26 abolitionist 26 disembarked 26 lived 26 heritage 26 nobleman 26 traversed 26 forebear 26 ending 26 bygone era 26 indelibly 25 runaway slaves 25 reliving 25 lineage 25 blacksmiths 25 defining moment 25 aristocrat 25 cherished 25 lynched 25 trace 25 traveled 25 eternity 25 posterity 25 fated 25 abolitionists