John Colter: Youngest Explorer of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

John Colter was 16 when the Lewis and Clark expedition set out. He stayed and hunted beaver and other animals in the Rocky Mountains for four years after the expedition. He was eventually caught by the fierce Blackfeet Indians. The Blackfeet hated Lewis and Clark. He knew the Blackfeet language and told the chief that he was with Lewis and Clark and because of that he should be able to fight the braves of the Blackfeet. They stripped him naked and told him to run and the Blackfeet braves began to chase after him. He out ran all but one of them. Then he suddenly stopped and the Blackfeet warrior stumbled and dropped his spear. Colter picked it up and killed him. Then he ran for his life. He jumped into the icy cold Jefferson River, and hid under some floating logs for a day and a night! Seven days later Colter crawled into st. Lisa’s fort. He survived to trap more Beaver and more animals.

Why Buy Worthless Wilderness?

Why should we buy this worthless wilderness? Has Jefferson gone mad? We are already much bigger than most countries. Why more than double our size? This land probably does not have good soil and there are fierce Indians living on it! If we try to settle there we will be driven right back! And why waste lives just fighting Indians on worthless wilderness? I certainly wouldn’t move there and you shouldn’t either.

It landed in the middle of town with a huge bang!
The bomb blew up with a mushroom shaped cloud of gas,ashes and flame. It had been a quiet normal day when it began , luckily we were at the zoo which has, or I should say had it’s own bomb shelter .But now people were vaporized on the street , not even an ash of them left. Our whole city was being destroyed and devastated and our whole house and life were ruined.The bomb shook our shelter and we were thrown wildly about. Then a piece of shrapnel hit my head:thwack,dead.

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Machine guns rattled,Stukas whined,Messerschmitts smoked,Spitfires twisted and turned,Bombs went off,Men fell with last desperate cries of despair! This had all started yesterday evening…

I was at the mall when I saw a strange circle of red light. Through it I saw the rest of the mall,but beside it a sign said “ESCALATOR OF TIME“ . Underneath it was a keypad.I ran up to it and the screen said “PICK A PLACE” I typed in “DUNKIRK” then it said”PICK A YEAR” I typed in “1940”after that it said “PICK A MONTH” I typed in “MAY” finally it said “JUMP THROUGH THE CIRCLE”.I jumped through and there was a blinding flash of light and…  Continue reading Week 20 – Escalator →

It was quiet, except for the noise of the paddle in the water. A few minutes ago we (my friends,James,Pety Peter,John, Jillian Gillian and me,Bryan I am 15) had been in a plane from Edmonton to mexiko mexico . James,who is 12 years old, was reciting the Greek alphabet for us “α,β,γ,δ,ε …”when the plane spun out out of control! By the time we got the plane under control the nose of the plane was beginning to dive and we crashed!5 days after the crash  Peter(14 yrs) got his knife out and built us a raft . Us boys had to un-sew our shirts and Gillian had to un-sew her shirt sleeves to make ropes for the raft.Then we went looking for the pilot ,Mary, we found her holding onto some driftwood in the river. As we rescued her Jon John spied a plane high over the ruined mill.It saw us and we were rescued.

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