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Reader Participation Day: Which Historic Person Would You Take Hiking In The National Parks?

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Which historic person would you like to hike, ski, or paddle with in a national park?

Would you take John Muir to show him what Yosemite National Park looks like now? Maybe you would hike with Benton MacKaye so he can see how his vision of the Appalachian Trail turned out. What would you talk about?

Alternatively, forget these outdoor icons. Instead, you would bring over your great-grandfather from the old country and show him Picture Rocks National Lakeshore.

Or you could mix it all up and take Henry Thoreau to Yellowstone National Park and explain today's philosophy of national parks.

Whom would you choose and where would you take them?

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Thomas Moran whose paintings in oil and watercolors inspired congress to create the National Parks. Congress created the Parks but did not vote at that time for park funding. That came later. The good news is they paid the artist. If I remember correctly it was about $10,000 for the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The painting hangs with The Chasam of the Colorado in the Capitol. Oh to see as an artist sees!


I would like to take William H. Seward on a nice long leisurely tour of the Alaskan parks.


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