This Week in Outdoor History: Zebulon Pike & Nellie Bly
Filed in archive Outdoor News by Terah Shelton on November 15, 2007
This week in outdoor history features the first artificial snow and the first sight of Pikes Peak.
November 10, 1871: Journalist and explorer Henry Stanley found the missing David Livingstone in Central Africa and made his famous comment, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
November 13, 1946: Vincent
Schaefer produced artificial snow from a natural cloud for the first time at Mount Greylock in Massachusetts. November 14, 1889: Nellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg's time of 80 days to travel around the world. She did it in 72.
November 15, 1806: Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak.
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