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PostPosted: 10/8/2003, 6:26 pm    Post subject: Exploration/Discovery Reply to topic Reply with quote
IF you could tag along with the great explorers of the North American continent, who would it be ?
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PostPosted: 10/8/2003, 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
For me it would have to be Lewis and Clark. What they did was absoulutely amazing , everyday was full of the unknown since they were setting foot where no one else ever had before. It is also mind boggling how accurate they were at calculating latitude and longitude by the stars.

Tagging along with John Wesley Powell would have been A OK too,

How about you Nighthiker?
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PostPosted: 10/8/2003, 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
Arizonaheat wrote:
How about you Nighthiker?


I agree there completely.
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PostPosted: 10/8/2003, 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
John Wesley Powell
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PostPosted: 10/9/2003, 6:50 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
Arizonaheat wrote:
they were setting foot where no one else ever had before.


Think some native Americans might argue with that, but yeah, think they'd be the ones to follow.
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PostPosted: 10/9/2003, 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
He's not exactly one of the great explorers like Lewis and Clark, but I'd love to float down Glen Canyon with Ed Abbey.
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PostPosted: 10/9/2003, 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
Lizard wrote:
He's not exactly one of the great explorers like Lewis and Clark, but I'd love to float down Glen Canyon with Ed Abbey.


I agree. I'd rather do something on a smaller scale. Perhaps a trip with the old French fur trappers like LaSalle or Marquette. Those big expeditions sound grand now, but I don't doubt they were quite brutal and unpleasant in many ways.
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PostPosted: 10/9/2003, 11:32 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
mike t wrote:
but I don't doubt they were quite brutal and unpleasant in many ways.


Well, I'd want to follow in the Bimmer of course Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 10/9/2003, 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
evenstar wrote:
Well, I'd want to follow in the Bimmer of course Rolling Eyes



Of course, the cute pink Jeep would probably be more suitable! Cool
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PostPosted: 10/9/2003, 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
Lewis and Clark a close second is John C Fremont.
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