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This Week in Outdoor History: Zebulon Pike & Nellie Bly

Filed in archive Outdoor News by Terah Shelton on November 15, 2007

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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: Vincentlinks 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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