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It's the early 19th century. You're setting out to explore vast and unknown regions, from rivers and plains to mountains and marshes. Your job is to evaluate, analyze, and note what you find so that those in power can decide the next best steps for exploration and colonization. You need to make it back alive with your information in order and your faculties intact. Who and what do you take along?
First off would be plenty of tough people able to stay the course, get along with one another, live off the land, and handle weaponry. You would want guides familiar with the areas you were to traverse,See the full content of this document
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Go West, M.D.
if possible, and goods with which to placate or barter with the locals. You would need the best navigation tools available, from previous travelers' accounts to telescopes and compasses. And given the trials and terrors of dangerous overland travel, you would want the best in medical supplies and implements and the knowledge to use them wisely.
For the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clark expedition, that meant a chest filled with drugs and supplies that came to $90.60. There were a mortar and pestle for blending dry or paste substances, a beaker for measuring ...See the full content of this document
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