Word: traced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearby were found three rifles, a harpoon, a boat, two sledges?all part of the emergency equipment of the balloon, of which there was no trace. The corpses' moccasins were severely worn, suggesting a long march over the floes from where the balloon came down. Most precious of all was Andree's diary. Its pages were so fragile that the finders feared to examine it. But one entry was visible? July 18, 1897, just one week after the fated takeoff...
...recovered, one as late as September 1912, but only two contained notes, both written prior to the one borne by the pigeon. Since November 1897, numerous expeditions have gone in search of the Andree party. It was rightly assumed that the winds had borne them far east, but no trace was found until Horn's fortuitous discovery...
...morning, when Will was a boy in his 'teens, he woke to find the camp fire almost out, and no Bopy in sight. They were camped near a river, and in the river the boy found their battered bucket still kept afloat by the ice. That was the only trace he ever discovered of the old Frenchman...
Joseph Hare was an outlaw dandy, a city boy in the wilderness. After a lucrative career along the Trace, he was captured in a Baltimore tailor's shop, buying fancy clothes...
Last and most dangerous of the Trace pirates was John Murrell, criminal extraordinary. A student of law, he sold slaves, sold them again and again, often killed them in the end to destroy the evidence. Murrell used to pass as an itinerant preacher. Said he once, describing one of his forays: "In all that route, I only robbed eleven men, but I preached some damn fine sermons." He planned a gigantic simultaneous uprising of slaves and white trash throughout the West, and his organizing genius almost succeeded in bringing it to a head. But he talked too much...