What would you choose if you could go back and experience one thing in North America before European settlers arrived?

Xenomorph · Friday at 9:17 AM

For me, I think it would be to walk through the vast forests of towering American chestnut trees that stretched from Maine to Mississippi before the Asian blight was introduced in the late 1800's. The written accounts are fascinating. Forests so clean you could see for hundreds of yards. Tree after tree with a 10 foot diameter. Mast crops every year that carpeted the ground with huge chestnuts.

You can still go experience the redwoods. Yosemite is still there. But the huge American chestnuts are just gone...

aTotal360 · Friday at 9:20 AM

Kindly ask the native americans not to bury their dead in east Starkville.

mcdawg22 · Friday at 9:23 AM

Can I research known gold plots and bring it all back with me?

Dr Strangelove · Friday at 9:24 AM

Disney World. It would have been nice to stand in long lines without the acrid smell of European B.O.

Xenomorph · Friday at 9:26 AM

mcdawg22 said:
Can I research known gold plots and bring it all back with me?

Nope.. you gotta choose something that's just for the sake of the experience. No ill-gotten rewards allowed.

She Mate Me · Friday at 9:32 AM

Xenomorph said:
For me, I think it would be to walk through the vast forests of towering American chestnut trees that stretched from Maine to Mississippi before the Asian blight was introduced in the late 1800's. The written accounts are fascinating. Forests so clean you could see for hundreds of yards. Tree after tree with a 10 foot diameter. Mast crops every year that carpeted the ground with huge chestnuts.

You can still go experience the redwoods. Yosemite is still there. But the huge American chestnuts are just gone...

I don't know if it's at the top of my list without more thought, but I would definitely like to see parts of Mississippi when the old growth forests were still here before any clearing began.

POTUS · Friday at 9:39 AM

To see the land bridge between Alaska and Russia

DoggieDaddy13 · Friday at 9:42 AM

You bunch of tree huggers.

I'd want to be around the Natchez area hanging with the Theachoel tribe upon the death of the Great Sun, so I could see his wives and all of his servants get sacrificed so they could continue their service to the Great Sun in the afterlife.

Trees are overrated.

Colonel Angus.sixpack · Friday at 9:47 AM

I’d like to go just before the time the Roanoke colony vanished. I need to know what happened.

mcdawg22 · Friday at 9:48 AM

Xenomorph said:
Nope.. you gotta choose something that's just for the sake of the experience. No ill-gotten rewards allowed.

Can I bring a fly rod? If so. It would be wading the Keys and if you allow me two, Montana.

She Mate Me · Friday at 9:48 AM

DoggieDaddy13 said:
Trees are overrated.

Only people bother to rate trees. Trees don't give AF, they just keep making more trees.

onewoof · Friday at 9:49 AM

starvation, disease, mud floor houses, random attacks by wild tribes and sundials

CochiseCowbell · Friday at 9:51 AM

Colonel Angus.sixpack said:
I’d like to go just before the time the Roanoke colony vanished. I need to know what happened.

Croatoan

CochiseCowbell · Friday at 9:51 AM

She Mate Me said:
Only people bother to rate trees. Trees don't give AF, they just keep making more trees.

johnson86-1 · Friday at 9:53 AM

Colonel Angus.sixpack said:
I’d like to go just before the time the Roanoke colony vanished. I need to know what happened.

I think they all just left to go 17 good looking american indian women that didn't have terrible teeth like the british at the time (and now).

She Mate Me · Friday at 9:56 AM

Colonel Angus.sixpack said:
I’d like to go just before the time the Roanoke colony vanished. I need to know what happened.

Maroon Eagle · Friday at 9:56 AM

Xenomorph said:
Nope.. you gotta choose something that's just for the sake of the experience. No ill-gotten rewards allowed.

So no land tracts covering future oil fields.

Got it.

Dawgbite · Friday at 9:58 AM

Free range *****!

Xenomorph · Friday at 10:01 AM

mcdawg22 said:
Can I bring a fly rod? If so. It would be wading the Keys and if you allow me two, Montana.

Napoleon378 · Friday at 10:17 AM

I'd probably go way back to see the north american cheetah and lion. roughly 10k years ago

more recent would be to see the massive herds of Bison all over. I know they aren't extinct but very few wild populations anymore.

DawgsGoneWild · Friday at 10:21 AM

Easy answer

native poontang before syphilis or herps got em

goindhoo · Friday at 10:23 AM

Peyote

HailStout · Friday at 10:39 AM

1msucub · Friday at 10:44 AM

The Mississippi Delta before it was turned into the Mississippi Delta.

thatsbaseball · Friday at 10:45 AM

The original left field lounge **

HailStout · Friday at 10:45 AM

Dinosaurs. You left your question too open ended, So the answer is dinosaurs

Colonel Angus.sixpack · Friday at 10:48 AM

North America covered in glaciers might be cool to see also.

Xenomorph · Friday at 10:55 AM

HailStout said:
Dinosaurs. You left your question too open ended, So the answer is dinosaurs

Xenomorph · Friday at 11:01 AM

HailStout said:

Hilarious... I want to see a Mel Brooks or Tropic Thunder style movie around this entire premise.

DerHntr · Friday at 11:01 AM

Ride a horse across the Great Plains before the time of Indians would be incredible

ETA: I’d prefer this in a Jeep. Can I do that since it’s make believe?

Xenomorph · Friday at 11:08 AM

DerHntr said:
Ride a horse across the Great Plains before the time of Indians would be incredible

ETA: I’d prefer this in a Jeep. Can I do that since it’s make believe?

I mean.. go ahead... it's just a shitload of grass, but knock yourself out!

CochiseCowbell · Friday at 11:14 AM

Xenomorph said:
I mean.. go ahead... it's just a shitload of grass, but knock yourself out!

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TroyMcClure2025 · Friday at 11:15 AM

Xenomorph said:
For me, I think it would be to walk through the vast forests of towering American chestnut trees that stretched from Maine to Mississippi before the Asian blight was introduced in the late 1800's. The written accounts are fascinating. Forests so clean you could see for hundreds of yards. Tree after tree with a 10 foot diameter. Mast crops every year that carpeted the ground with huge chestnuts.

You can still go experience the redwoods. Yosemite is still there. But the huge American chestnuts are just gone...

This is an absolutely fascinating topic. The attempts to bring back the American version are underway, but it’s certainly one of the most underrated ecological disasters in American history.

DerHntr · Friday at 11:18 AM

Xenomorph said:
I mean.. go ahead... it's just a shitload of grass, but knock yourself out!

The beauty of the Great Plains has always fascinated me. Sure, I love a mountain and huge forests too. But the Great Plains are so incredibly unique to North America. If you’ve never driven back roads through the Flint Hills of Kansas. It should be on the bucket list.

YesIAmAPirate · Friday at 11:19 AM

DerHntr said:
Ride a horse across the Great Plains before the time of Indians would be incredible

ETA: I’d prefer this in a Jeep. Can I do that since it’s make believe?

Good luck finding a gas station to refill

TroyMcClure2025 · Friday at 11:22 AM

Native Americans are espoused to be conservationists, however, Boston was importing lumber during the Revolutionary War because all of the timber had been destroyed by the prior “native populations.” To see the original landscape and animals would be enlightening and likely much different than what our scholars in public schools are teaching.

FormerBully · Friday at 11:25 AM

It would be cool to see the Appalachian Mountains as they once stood, as tall as the Rockies. People do not realize they are 400 million years older than their cousins out west.

DesotoCountyDawg · Friday at 11:28 AM

I’d like to see the earthworks done by a lot of the native Americans done up and down the Mississippi.

HotMop · Friday at 11:29 AM

I'd go see the Aztec temples and do some ritualistic sacrifices.

FreeDawg · Friday at 11:43 AM

Most of the tits I saw as a 12 year old were in national geographic so honestly I'm good.

What would you choose if you could go back and experience one thing in North America before European settlers arrived?

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