samurai sword tattoo meaning: quotes for encouragement

Sunday, November 20, 2011

quotes for encouragement

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During their explorations, members of the party made detailed maps and observations of the Yellowstone region, exploring numerous lakes, climbing several mountains and observing wildlife. The expedition visited both the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins, and after observing the regularity of eruptions of one geyser, decided to name it Old Faithful, since it would erupt about once every hour.

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One member of the expedition, a Montana writer and lawyer named Cornelius Hedges, later wrote a number of articles for a Helena, Montana based newspaper, describing the things the expedition had witnessed. In discussions with other members of the party, and in his writing for the newspaper, Hedges was a vocal supporter of setting aside the Yellowstone region as a National Park, an idea originally proposed by former acting Montana Territorial Governor Thomas Francis Meagher.

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The Washburn party was clearly inspired by the journals kept by Cook and Folsom, as well as their personal accounts. Immediately after the Cook expedition, David Folsom went to work as a surveyor for Henry Washburn. Additionally, Nathaniel Langford had personal connections with Jay Cooke of the Northern Pacific Railroad well before their expedition. Cooke was interested in the potential of the Yellowstone region to attract railroad business. After the expedition, Cooke financed Langford's early 1871 speeches in Virginia City, Helena, New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. about the 1870 expedition on behalf of the Northern Pacific Railroad. On January 19, 1871 one of those speeches in Washington, D.C. was attended by geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden who became insprired to conduct his next geological survey in the Yellowstone region. The result was the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871