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Re: Floating Barrel used to establish Louisiana-Mississippi boundary?



Another boundary account: Idaho history is plagued by stories of
supposedly drunken surveyors taking a wrong turn and mistakenly following
the crest of the Bitterroots instead of the Continental Divide, thereby
shrinking Idaho's boundary. However, University of Idaho history professor
Dr. Carlos A. Schwantes has established that the surveyors, led by
Carpenter, correctly marked the boundary set by Congress in 1864, charting
a route from north to south that would have made "taking a wrong turn"
impossible.

For more of the story from which this was extracted, and its relation to a
gift of the survey notes to the library, see
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/LA/towers00.htm#winter00>.

   ---Terry

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Terry Abraham   Special Collections, University of Idaho
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>

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