• RowRowRowYourBot
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    Didn’t Lewis and Clarke note how often they found abandoned settlements?

    • kersplooshA
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      Not sure about Lewis and Clark, but I have read that David Thompson did.

      George Vancouver recorded beaches strewn with old human bones. Around the same time he wrote journal entries along the lines of, “Wow, look at all this rich, uninhabited land that would be ideal for settlements!” I don’t recall Ol’ George ever putting two and two together.