Word: filson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Widener maps bear the tales of adventurers and explorers as well as that of modern explorers. A colonial expedition led by Filson charted parts of Kentucky after George Clark quieted the Shawnee. The map displays Daniel Boone's comment: "an exceeding good performance." Another early American map, drawn by John Smith in 1614, locates and names Plymouth Rock six years before the Pilgrims "found...
Homework. In Oklahoma City, as Detective L. L. Filson took down the description of a fugitive on his home telephone, he glanced out the window and saw the fugitive walking by, stepped out the front door and arrested...