I would walk around and enjoy the lack of Dandelions. Damn those asshats on the Mayflower for bringing such an annoying weed over!
What would you choose if you could go back and experience one thing in North America before European settlers arrived?
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I had the opportunity to Antelope hunt on the Rosebud Suiox Indian reservation last year. The block we were hunting was 25000 acres of nothing. No roads, no houses, no power lines, nothing but rolling hills and grass. It was really amazing.
Make sure to tell the Indians to kill the first white men coming off boats, and do not stop until they stop coming. Then back to hell.
read this a couple years ago on our beach trip
and kept trying to picture the gulf coast and what those first guys saw when they hit the shores
In this fantasy, I’m gonna need a high powered rifle and a good shotgun…. I’m going to kill some bison, elk, moose and turkeys.
Hopefully not get scalped on my first day.
In reality, I’m not sure North America before Europeans really interest me too much, except for the possibility of an incredible abundance of wildlife.
Hopefully not get scalped on my first day.
In reality, I’m not sure North America before Europeans really interest me too much, except for the possibility of an incredible abundance of wildlife.
The African women just flopped em around like jump rope. The native Americans used coconut shells and grass skirts. They firm. Gilligans island doesn’t lie
It looked like someone put cans of tomato sauce inside some pantyhose and glued them to their chest...
I wanna go back and see if this guy's right about Sabre Tooth's being camel killing specialists...
I think that's the gist of most replies (and of the hypothetical).
It's to see what the country looked like in its sparsely inhabited beauty. Whenever I take in a large vista or scenery, usually from mountains, looking over lowlands, lakes, rivers, etc and winkling city lights in the distance, I often wonder what it looked like before. Winding roads through wilderness as well; why did those who first carved these routes or blazed the trails choose them and the placements of encampments, that became settlements?
Would probably meet Jesus when he visited the lost tribes of Israel
Yeah, but would you have worn the magic underwear? The secret is the magic underwear.
It'd be fascinating to see their entire cultures. So much of this is just completely lost to history, and much of what we do have is fragments.
This is what I thought about too. I've duck hunted many areas up there and imagine what it looked like as a hardwood forest/swamp.
I don't think I'd want to walk it, but a flyover would be cool.
I wrote this 5-6 years ago as an idea of a book I wanted to write :
“ If our world was a body, our river, the main vein. Our creeks and bayous, the claws of its reach. That’s where we dip into it’s blood. This is where we carry its waters to our fields. Protect the heart with the mindfulness of its extremities”
It’s mid 1550’s and you find yourself standing on the southern bluffs of young America, overlooking the mightiest river ever to drain a lake.
As the evening ritual begins, an unnatural bellow gains traction as its undoubtedly coming from up river.
Sounds, unimaginable to your ears....as inward air from a Conquistador , pinches the tips of his horns. ...the outer air of my native people exhaled in a fleeting horror....
How does one capture and depict such an intergalactic scene, with mere words?
All while watching the red ripped cotton end, of the old Spanish Flag
ride atop a floating village of wood and men... crazed and frightened....led by a dark figure made of Armor ...An extended arm of sharp shiny metal, pointed at us......as the entire world we knew, dissolved.
The mightiest river in the world just became a wormhole to this new dimension.
Welcome to White Apple
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“ If our world was a body, our river, the main vein. Our creeks and bayous, the claws of its reach. That’s where we dip into it’s blood. This is where we carry its waters to our fields. Protect the heart with the mindfulness of its extremities”
It’s mid 1550’s and you find yourself standing on the southern bluffs of young America, overlooking the mightiest river ever to drain a lake.
As the evening ritual begins, an unnatural bellow gains traction as its undoubtedly coming from up river.
Sounds, unimaginable to your ears....as inward air from a Conquistador , pinches the tips of his horns. ...the outer air of my native people exhaled in a fleeting horror....
How does one capture and depict such an intergalactic scene, with mere words?
All while watching the red ripped cotton end, of the old Spanish Flag
ride atop a floating village of wood and men... crazed and frightened....led by a dark figure made of Armor ...An extended arm of sharp shiny metal, pointed at us......as the entire world we knew, dissolved.
The mightiest river in the world just became a wormhole to this new dimension.
Welcome to White Apple
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I'd love to see what the land where I used to live looked like before it was all developed.
The moment of contact is not depicted deep enough in the history books.
The movie ‘Apocalypto teased with a short scene of it
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I want to see the millions of bison roaming the western plains and fly fish the rivers in Montana before anyone.
Another spot in time I’d like to see is the moment Hernando Desoto came upon the Mississippi River and where that is. You have some say that it is Coahoma County along Desoto Lake and then you have some that say it was near the state line in Desoto County. Wherever it is it’s probably not where you think because the river channel back then was not where it is now. It’s also very possible that he “discovered” it along the bluff somewhere because he found it in May. River could have easily been at flood stage.
In light of the Columbus video above, I thought this book was titled “A Land Of Strange” at first glance.
Yes! Can you imagine seeing the 1st florabama mullett toss?
I don't read much, but I did read the Lewis and Clark bood, Undaunted Courage. I think. In that, they descirbe bird flocks so huge that they blocked out the sun. Maybe an exaggeration but that would be incredible to witness.
That book also destroys a lot of narratives about the peaceful nature of native Americans , as portrayed by our beloved entertainers.
That book also destroys a lot of narratives about the peaceful nature of native Americans , as portrayed by our beloved entertainers.
my parents took me for my first trip in 1972 at 5 yrs old. the year after it opened. no crowds. well mannered people. no long lines. everything clean. and yes, no foreigners.
Probably passenger pigeons... Old accounts droves in the millions during migration season.
Typical username for a dude who never liked colonists.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 love the colonists.. I mostly see them at night. …mostly.
I have two periods I would like to see. First I grew up in NY on Long Island and would love to see that area in 1600 before there was a city.
Second is when the sea fossils we find today in Mississippi and Tennessee were being started:
Most of the southern coast and interior of the USA was underwater during the Late Cretaceous Period, approximately 139 to 66 million years ago. [1, 2]
Second is when the sea fossils we find today in Mississippi and Tennessee were being started:
Most of the southern coast and interior of the USA was underwater during the Late Cretaceous Period, approximately 139 to 66 million years ago. [1, 2]
- The Cretaceous Seaway: A shallow, tropical sea—often referred to as the Western Interior Seaway or the Mississippi Embayment—covered a massive portion of the South, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico up to the Arctic Ocean.
I got one more with a twist. I would like a spy satellite or drone be set over Oak Island that would record human activity on the island starting in 1000 AD till today. This way I can see what the heck happened on that island and stop watching that damn show.