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    Stephen Harriman Long (December 30, 1784 – September 4, 1864) was an American army civil engineer, explorer, and inventor. As an inventor, he is noted...
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    scientists were reassigned to an expedition led by Stephen Harriman Long. From June 6 to September 13, 1820, Long and fellow scientists traveled across the Great...
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  • Stephen Long may refer to: Stephen Harriman Long (1784–1864), American engineer, explorer, and military officer Stephen Long (sportsman) (born 1951), former...
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    mountain was named in honor of explorer Stephen Harriman Long and is featured on the Colorado state quarter. Longs Peak can be seen behind Mt. Meeker from...
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    Sometimes called the Atkinson–Long Expedition after its two principal leaders, Colonel Henry Atkinson and Major Stephen Harriman Long, it led to the creation...
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    scientific expeditions. In 1819–20, he and Thomas Say accompanied Stephen Harriman Long on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains. He was also a member of...
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    American explorer Stephen Harriman Long named the mountain "James Peak" in honor of Edwin James who climbed to the summit during Long's Expedition of 1820...
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    earliest fur trappers of the Rocky Mountains. He was a guide for Stephen Harriman Long's expedition of the Great Plains in 1820. A fur trapper and hunter...
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    William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986), better known as Averell Harriman, was an American politician, businessman, and diplomat....
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    early as 1820, called so by the French hunters of the expedition of Stephen Harriman Long, after the river rocks in its bed. In the 1830s it became known...
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    Points. When asked in 1837 about the future of the little village, Stephen Harriman Long, the railroad's chief engineer said the place would be good "for...
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    return, Pike sighted the peak in Colorado named after him. Major Stephen Harriman Long (1784–1864) led the Yellowstone and Missouri expeditions of 1819–1820...
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    R. Bell joined the Stephen Harriman Long expedition in 1820 to explore the central Great Plains. Due to lack of provisions, Long and Bell led divided...
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    Fort de Cavagnal include Lewis and Clark on 26–29 June 1804 and Stephen Harriman Long in 1819. The fort location had been chosen then because of its proximity...
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    creation in 1838. He retired in September 1861 and was replaced by Stephen Harriman Long, who remained in the position until the Corps was disbanded. Thereafter...
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    the building and managing of the first American railroads were Stephen Harriman Long, George Washington Whistler, and Herman Haupt.[citation needed]...
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    on an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains led by Stephen Harriman Long. The specific epithet celatus is Latin and means "secret" or "hidden"...
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    ISBN 978-0-7385-5627-7. U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers. "Stephen Harriman Long, Topographical Engineers". U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers...
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    remembered for his participation in the expedition of 1820 led by Major Stephen Harriman Long, into still largely unknown territory acquired in the Louisiana...
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    Doubleday. pp. 239–240. LCCN 64016203. Long, Stephen Harriman (1860). The northern expeditions of Stephen H. Long : the journals of 1817 and 1823 and related...
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    Geographical, Statistical and Historical Map of Arkansas Territory, after Stephen Harriman Long, 1822...
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    Longmont is located northeast of the county seat of Boulder. It is named after Longs Peak, a prominent mountain that is clearly visible from the city (mont means...
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  • continuing into the 1870s (see for example, the careers of Major Stephen Harriman Long and Major General John C. Frémont), almost always under the direction...
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    was referred to as the Pembina District after the U.S. Army Major Stephen Harriman Long made surveys during the 1823 expedition to the Red River of the...
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  • Longmont, Colorado – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) (indirectly, via Longs Peak) Longs Peak (Colorado) – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) Longville...
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    were using bridges. In 1830, Stephen Harriman Long received a patent for an all-wood parallel chord truss bridge. Long's bridge contained diagonal braces...
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    frontier post for travelers heading west, with explorers such as Stephen Harriman Long and Thomas Nuttall passing through, althogut the government closed...
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    early image, an engraving of the falls, in 1778. In 1817, Major Stephen Harriman Long headed a military excursion up the Mississippi River to the Falls...
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    Cantonment Martin. They left for Council Bluff where they met Major Stephen Harriman Long. Colonel Atkinson joined the military detachment and established...
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  • worn into the soil as smoothly as they could be cut with a spade." Stephen Harriman Long wrote of his 1820s travel through the Pikes Peak region that Ute...
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