Ameritrekking Adventures: Exploring Big Hole National Battlefield: Trek, #3.3
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This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 7 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet.
This short story tells the tale of the author's visit to Big Hole National Battlefield in Montana. Big Hole is a unit of the National Park System dedicated to preserving the site of an 1877 battle between US soldiers and Nez Perce "Indians." The visit took place in the same year (1997) as the third Ameritrek, the subject of the main book. This is one chapter from that book, so you can travel vicariously to a little-visited park and sample the writing at the same time.
The main book, Finding the Lost River Range, resulted from an 8,000-mile, three-week road trip visiting highpoints as well as local and national parks in 20 states.
Over the years the author drove more than 125,000 mile—the equivalent of five times around the Earth at the equator—and spent over a year on the road. He went to 45 highpoints and many other strange and wonderful places. He continues to travel and write. Buy this sample booklet and join the adventure today!
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Ameritrekking Adventures - Joseph G. Whelan
Ameritrekking Adventures
Exploring Big Hole National Battlefield
By
Joseph G. Whelan
Copyright © 2019 by Joseph G. Whelan
All rights reserved.
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
—Hin-mut-too-yat-lat-keht
(Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce)
Table of Contents
1: What’s It All About?
2: More War
3: More to Explore
1: What’s It All About?
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility.
—Aldo Leopold
We are all citizens of history.
—Clifton Paul Fadiman
If they don't have highpoints in Heaven, I'm not going.
—Jack Longacre
(Founder, Highpointers Club)
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Hello! If you’re new to the Ameritrekking and Highpointing series of books and booklets, Welcome! If you and I have met before, however indirectly, Welcome Back!
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I’ll explain what this booklet is about in just a moment but first I wish to be completely upfront and make the following ...
!!!!! FULL DISCLOSURE !!!!!
... which is that this short story is taken word for word from a full-length book entitled Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. Therefore, if you already have that book, there is no need to buy this booklet.
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And now, here are quick explanations of Ameritrekking and highpointing. What are those things? What’s it all about?
Ameritrekking is a word I invented. It began in 1995 when my employer required me to start using up months of accumulated vacation time. Since they were making me go, I asked for three weeks off to see the country by car. Along the way I realized that something more than a long vacation was happening. That something I called Ameritrekking. The first trip became the first book in the series, Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. The next year I took another three-week trip and a pattern was established. It’s been over 20 years now and I’m still rolling around. So far I’ve driven over 100,000 miles and been to all of the states in the Lower Forty-Eight. I’ve spent over a year on the road. After each trip I created an extensive report based on notes and pictures taken along the way. Then I distilled those reports into what I hope are entertaining books about a beautiful country.
Highpointing is a word someone else invented. A highpoint is defined as the highest natural geographic point in a state. Each state has a highpoint, even Florida. Every state is unique and so is every highpoint. Some are mountains while some are not. Some are accessible by wheelchair (once you drive to them) while some require a significant investment in mountaineering equipment