David Thompson (April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer". Over his career he mapped over 3.9 million square kilometers of North America and for this has been described as the "greatest land geographer who ever lived."
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“Who hears the fishes when they cry?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“They smote and fell, who set the bars
Against the progress of the stars,
And stayed the march of Motherland!”
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