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Show 662 ( eai'ly eaily ) explorers , such as Lewis and ( Qlark Olarlc ) or Mackenzie , one would get an interpretive ( under- under ) standing ( which -which which ) you could get in no other way . For that reason during the last fifteen years , especially during the last ten years he ( has bas ) covered almost all of the principal rivers of the ( United TJuited ) States and Canada . ( R . 2554-2555 . ) Previously had had some experience with the Yukon . He has touched on quite intimately the great trade routes of the United States in his ( hook book ) that he completed two or three years ago called ( Water- Water ) ways of Western Wanderings . ( After A-fter After ) ( voyaging voyagilig ) the Ohio , then the Mississippi from the source to the mouth , then the ( Yellowstone Yellaw'stone Yellawstone ) from the Mississippi to New Orleans , he endeavored to record the way in which the early pioneers crossed the ( Alleghanies Allegbanies ) to the forks of the Ohio where the Alleghany and Monongahela come together ; ( Washington's Washingtons ) early surveying there ; the first voyages of the South ; the ( way -way way ) the Ohio route was used , first by the ( ex- ex ) plorers then as a battleground of the Indians in ( the t-he the ) French and Indian wars and the Revolution , and finally as a commercial route for the settlements , then as the settlements pushed beyond the Missouri how they still used the Ohio and went down the Mississippi , then used the Missouri upstream ( fol- fol ) lowing the route of Lewis and Clark , and finally down the Columbia on the other side . The ( inevi- inevi ) table route has been the river ( and aud ) he was traveling it for its light on earlier history . . ( R . 2556 . . ) |