The main purpose of the expedition was to explore the rivers, and try and find the most direct course across the continent for the purpose of commerce. ... Kit guided Fremont to Oregon and California, and through much of the Rocky Mountains. ... Thoreau also wrote Walden, a book in which he wrote in the woods by himself from July 4, 1845 to Sept. 6, 1847. ... The Modernism period began in 1918; nine years later Charles Lindbergh took flight over the Atlantic Ocean and headed towards Paris. ... All of the explorers through the six time periods were brave men who had a vision to open America...

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In Henry David Thoreau's autobiography Walden, Thoreau informs us of his odyssey to enlightenment through communion through nature. ... I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were almost green as grass. ... Making another hole directly over it with an ice chisel which I had, and cutting down the longest birch which I could find in the neighborhood with my knife, I made a slip-noose and so I pulled the axe out again...some think it is bottomless. ... Now the trunks of trees on the bottom, and the old log canoe, and the dark surrounding wood...

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