What would you choose if you could go back and experience one thing in North America before European settlers arrived?
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You mean the show that has maybe 10 minutes of new content per hour?
I would like to see the red haired giants of the Ohio River Valley
I'd just like to explore east to west and see all the cool $h1t lewis and clark did. BUT NOT DIE.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...
The amazing thing about lewis and clark expedition is that only 1 person died, and they were already ill when the trip started. But they were all major badasses who could walk 30 miles a day.
Three different things:
1. I would like to have been around to witness the first humans migrate into what would become the U.S. and would not at all be surprised to find out that they came from South America and migrated north instead of the common explanation of a land bridge and southern expansion.
2. Hang around with the Micmac tribe in Nova Scotia to see if the Templars really did arrive there and bury treasure.
3. Observe any Vikings exploring around the NE coast and possibly through the Great Lakes into Minnesota.
1. I would like to have been around to witness the first humans migrate into what would become the U.S. and would not at all be surprised to find out that they came from South America and migrated north instead of the common explanation of a land bridge and southern expansion.
2. Hang around with the Micmac tribe in Nova Scotia to see if the Templars really did arrive there and bury treasure.
3. Observe any Vikings exploring around the NE coast and possibly through the Great Lakes into Minnesota.
That's the one. I used to watch religiously but the last few years they have been trying to figure out how to stretch the 10 minutes of stuff to 45 minutes.
I watched it too. I got to where I would record it and then watch it later so I could fast forward through the 17 recaps. It cuts the show down to about 15 minutes.
I’d also like to see my property when it was inhabited by the Natchez. I have always wondered how they lived in those hellacious hilly woods through the summer. We have found some cool stuff over the years and know where at least one main living area must have been. But seeing how much of the land they cleared and how they lived would be very cool.
Just ordered it. I’m glad yall brought it up, it looks like something I’d really enjoy reading.
If one is interested in that story from cradle to grave, check out “Undaunted Courage.” Absolutely fascinating. I would have liked to been on the exploration. Honestly (hot take) you can contribute Meriweather Lewis’ death to the trip. My dude peaked so early, he had nothing to live for once the exploration was complete
One thing? Can I experience it and then come back?
If yes, then dinosaurs.
If no, I'd pick living with an indigenous tribe in southern Louisiana (where I grew up). I'd like to see the Mississippi River before it turned green.
If yes, then dinosaurs.
If no, I'd pick living with an indigenous tribe in southern Louisiana (where I grew up). I'd like to see the Mississippi River before it turned green.
Related great book: https://a.co/d/08Sat5HNFor 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...
Not too tough with the interstate system already put in place by the industrius local natives.
Thanks.. I might give that a shot.
Coupled with the document written by Bartolome de les Casas it should make for some real uplifting reading.
This is the obvious answer and the T-Rex was an inhabitant of North America. . . . .
BTW, read an interesting article last week indicating that dinosaurs may be the reasons humans don't live longer than we do. In short they sped up the human reproductive cycle causing our lifespans to shorten.
How Dinosaurs Caused Humans to Age More Quickly
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