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This lecture was about the numerous explorers that tried to find fortune and land for their respective countries. The French, Spanish, Canadian and American explorers each set out on the plains to claim the land and see what was out here. It depends on what part of the plains that you are on to explain what which country's explorers discovered that part of North American continent for their leaders. With my experience living here on the Upper Plains, the biggest explorers up here are the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Lewis and Clark spent three years traveling from the eastern coast to the western coast of the United States. Lewis and Clark and the rest of the expedition traveled this land to not only explorer it and see what was out their, but to tell anyone who lived in the Louisiana Purchase who was in charge of this land. They did this though peaceful means, unlike their Spanish neighbors to the south. I think that this has been hyped up during the last couple of years for the pursuit of profit in the tourism industry.

I think the biggest thing that we talked about for a little bit was the amount of euro-centrism that is experienced during the time of the explorers and still even now. In lecture, we talked about how some historians labeled Alexander MacKenzie the first person to cross Canada. This is absolutely not true, because native peoples have been living in Canada for hundreds of years. I would want to know is this a rampant problem in history books about the explorers "Great American Desert" or has our politically correct society taken care of this problem?