This essay is on John Colter and Tom Murphy. If you don’t know who they are read this essay. I will tell their differences and similarities. I will tell what they did. And what they had to go through to do it. John Colter joined the Lewis and Clark voyage on October 18, 1803 in the city of Maysville Kentucky. In 1806 he parted ways with Lewis and Clark to join two fur trappers from Illinois. Then in the winter of 1808 he went on his own. He went to what is now yellow stone national park. He noticed that this place had crazy geothermal activity. When he returned to his town no one had believed him about this place. Tom murphy was a guy that went on the same exact trip that John Colter did. He took more resources but he still has to face
His first voyage took place in 1598 with his uncle. He was on his own for his next trip which lasted 2 years. He was in France from 1603 until 1607. They then found some West Indians that
Because of his restlessness in England, Smith became actively involved with plans to colonize Virginia, which had been granted a charter from King James I. After setting sail, this famous expedition finally reached Virginia in April, after enduring a lengthy voyage of over four months in three tiny ships. John Smith was one of the seven chosen to govern and start the colony. He took a...
I am comparing Tom murphy and John Colter. They both ventured into Yellowstone national park. They ventured alone into Yellowstone National Park. A difference between the two is that Tom murphy knew what this place was John Colter did not. That could have given Tom Murphy an advantage over John Colter. When Tom murphy got to someplace he didn’t have to tell people about it or people would know what he is saying because this is modern times and people know about Yellowstone. They both probably had to face bad weather in Yellowstone and Tom murphy definitely had to face bad weather.
Audie Leon Murphy has earned all available U.S. military combat award for valor possible from the United States Army. He was also decorated by Belgium and France for his service. He serviced in the European Theater of Operations along with the Mediterranean. on January 26, 1945 Murphy earned the medal of honor because of what he had did at the Colmar Pocket near Holtzwihr, France when he was only 19 years old. He received it for his defensive actions against German troops- this shows his selfless service and personal courage. While he was wounded he alone stayed in a burning tank destroyer firing at the Germans- their soldiers and tanks- with a fully automatic machine gun. When he was out of ammo he climbed off the tank and led a successful counterattack after he had refused to let his wounds be treated. Another way he showed his personal courage-an army value.
	At the age of thirteen he boarded a ship to Whitehaven, which was a large port across the Solway Firth. There he signed up for a seven year seaman's apprenticeship on The Friendship of Whitehaven, whose captain was James Younger, a prosperous merchant and ship owner. His first voyage took him across the Atlantic Ocean to Barbados and Fredericksburg, Virginia at which he stayed with his older brother William, a tailor, who had left Scotland for America over thirteen years before, and who now was living comfortably and flourishing.
On May 1, 1769, Boone, Finley, and four other men, started out. They passed Cumberland Gap and on the 7th of June, they set up camp at Station Camp creek. It was nearly two years before Boone returned home, and during that time he explored Kentucky as far west as the Falls of the Ohio, where Louisville is now. There was another visit to Kentucky in 1773, and in 1774 he built a cabin at Harrodsburg. On this trip, Boone followed the Kentucky River to its mouth.
John was a very talented and diverse man, he never had a specific career. He was an inventor, a writer, a naturalist, a geologist and was skilled at many other professions. Later in his life, he ended up doing a lot of research to discover the natural history of many places. He also loved going on adventures and would join groups going on various expeditions in order to get to travel to new places discover and record what they would
Lewis and Clark's expedition officially began on May 21, 1804 when they and the 33 other men making up the Corps of Discovery departed from their camp near St. Louis, Missouri. The first portion of the expedition followed the route of the Missouri River during which, they passed through places such as present-day Kansas City, Missouri and Omaha, Nebraska.
In 1989 I was a private in basic training at Fort Benning Georgia United States Army Infantry School. In a classroom setting, for a reason that I cannot recall, one of my drill sergeants said “you’re no Audie Murphy.” I made the rookie mistake of asking “Who is Audie Murphy?” The room went silent. I did not know why, but I knew something was wrong because all three of my drill instructors including the senior drill instructor stared at me like I dropped my rifle. The senior drill instructor said, “You’re in the Army and you don’t know who Audie Murphy is?” In a stern voice he told me to find out then report back to tell him about Audie Murphy. I asked other people in the class, and I learned quickly that Audie Murphy is one of the most well-known Army war heroes in our nation’s history.
Lewis and Clark accelerated the growth of America with their endeavors put forth into the Corps of Discovery expedition; they provided the nation with the necessary information needed for the augmentation of our country. “As a member of the state militia, Lewis helped to quell the Whiskey Rebellion, a Pennsylvania uprising led by farmers against taxes, in 1794.” (Biography.com, p. 1). Meriwether Lewis would later subjugate uncharted lands with fellow militia member William Clark. “A younger brother to Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark, William Clark entered the military at the age of 19.” (Biography.com, p. 1). The duo’s background proved they possessed high qualities from their past aspirations, and displayed the ability to lead other
It was the first day of May in 1769. Daniel Boone left his home on the Yadkin River in North Carolina on his quest to discover the country of Kentucky. He brought along with him five friends which were: John Finley, John Stewart, Joseph Holden, James Monay, and William Cool. They traveled a long and tiring journey through a mountainous area. On the seventh day of June, they were at the Red River which John Finley had recently been trading with the Indians and from the top of the mountains, saw the beautiful land of Kentucky. They stayed in this area where they built shelter to cover them from weather. The men found this area loaded with wildlife so they were never short on food. They practiced there hunting skills here and got really good. They stayed around that area until December 22 and that is when things change. Daniel Boone and John Stewart went out on a journey through the forests just exploring the area; towards the end of the day they came walked a small hill where a number of indians jumped out and attacked the two. The Indians...
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Originally, like many other main routes in the United States, sections of the Oregon Trail had been used by the Native Americans and trappers. As early as 1742, part of the trail in Wyoming had been blazed by the Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye; the Lewis and Clark Expedition, between 1804 and 1806, made more of it known. The German-American fur trader and financier John Jacob Astor, in establishing his trading posts, dispatched a party overland in 1811 to follow the trail of these explorers. Later, mountain men such as James Bridger, who founded Fort Bridger in 1843, contributed their knowledge of the trail and often acted as guides. The first emigrant wagon train, headed by the American pioneer physician Elijah White, reached Oregon in 1842.
Thomas Jefferson knew Lewis all his life. In 1779, Lewis’s father died of pneumonia after crossing a freezing river when leaving from the military making a visit to his family. His Mother Lucy shortly after, married a retired officer named Captain John Marks in May of 1780. John Marks moved the entire family to Broad River Valley, Georgia settling in the new Goosepond Community Created by General George Mathews. While in Georgia, Lewis enhanced his skills as a hunter and outdoorsman; he would sometimes go out in the middle of the night in the dead winter with his dogs to go hunting at also eight years of age.
From these examples, the similarities and differences of Rob Hall and Scott Fischer are revealed. It is important to note that because Krakauer is on Hall’s team, he is often biased towards him making it impossible to know what they were really like. It would be obscene to try and distinguish which of them is a better man. They both had a high respect for each other which allowed them to work together and made them admirable.