[pct-l] Mother of the PCT?

[Postholer]

That's an interesting article. Especially in the sense that the interest in 
a 'Mexico to Canada' trail goes so far back.

The idea of a 'Mexico to Canada' trail can only go back to a time after both 
Mexico and Canada had established borders. So in the strictest sense, the 
idea of a PCT doesn't go terribly far back.

Whoever actually first uttered the idea is impossible to know.

Is the criteria of 'first', the first person to have the idea *OR* the first 
person to have the idea documented? Both are most likely different people or 
persons. The likelyhood is that several different people had the same idea, 
at different times, unbeknownst to each other and undocumented.

So the queston begs to be asked, Why is 'first' so important. Maybe having a 
Catherine Montgomery would be a currently popular image of the PCT. Maybe 
having a Clinton Clark is no longer politically correct and is contrary to 
the image one wants to associate with the PCT?

If the objective here is really 'the first', aka, truth, you must 
acknowledge that it's impossible to ever know, lest every conversation by 
humans was recorded.

The best that could come from such an investigation is newly acquired 
information about the trails history, which is definitely worth the effort.

-postholer

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