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David Thompson, Explorer/Surveyor

  • Start date: 05/14/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 05/14/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

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Gordon Sayre, UO English Professor and Obsidian member, has a special interest in the exploration and cartography of North America. His explorer talk will feature David Thompson, a late18th/early 19th century man who, like David Douglas, recorded his findings. While Douglas was a botanist, Thompson surveyed, traveled and published maps of the Northwest. He navigated the entire length of the Columbia River in 1811. By the time of his death in 1857, David Thompson had covered nearly 80,000 miles on foot, on horseback and by canoe.

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  • Departure Location: Obsidian Lodge

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  • Season: 2019

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