Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts

Thursday, September 26, 2013

John Evans' Maps Guided Lewis And Clark


From the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, The John Evans 1796-97 Map Of The Missouri River [See maps in the link]:

"One of the curious twists of Great Plains history is that the first accurate eyewitness map of the Missouri River in what is now North and South Dakota...was produced by a Welshman who had come to the United States to seek evidence for something that never existed: the illusory 'welsh Indians.'"  

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark [see portraits below; Clark on the left, Lewis on the right] used Evans' map(s) as a guide.