[pct-l] Pan-American Trail

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I think you may be right about it being Hazard...my living circumstances  
have changed recently and most all my papers are askew so I can't find the  
source...but that sentence about, "adventuring feet of men and animals," well,  
that sounds familiar to me.
 
I have a copy of the 1945 edition of  "The Pacific Crest  Trailways,"  but 
what I'm after now is something mentioned in the 1973  edition of "The Pacific 
Crest Trail, Volume 1: California," which states,  "As early as January 1935 
Clarke published a handbook-guide to the  PCT...."  So maybe he self-published 
it?  I've never heard anything  else about this guide, but it's certainly 
someting I'd like to find out more  about....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/26/2006 7:27:01 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
AsABat@4Jeffrey.Net writes:

I have  the 1945 edition of Clarke's "The Pacific Crest Trailway," which
includes  sketch maps and descriptions of the route, although sometimes it's
many  miles between data points.

However, you may be thinking of Joseph  Hazard regarding the Pan-American
Trail, though. I have a signed copy of  his 1946 "Pacific Crest Trails." It's
not a trail guide but rather a  description of the lands the trail would pass
through. Written after work  started on the Pan-American Highway, he writes:

"The PAN-AMERICAN  TRAIL, for the adventuring feet of men and animals, with
backpack or  saddle, will reinforce, fortify, and expand the highway
system...Ten  thousand miles of vacation lands to promote better
understandings and  warmer friendships will all Americans!"

AsABat

> I'm pretty  certain that Clinton C. Clarke's original personal plan was
>  for
> just that...a crestline trail from the Arctic Sea in  Alaska  to the
> Pacific at
> the southern tip of Chile.  Being  an  American, the origianal 1932 request
> to
> Congress  concerned only (as it was  known back then) the Pacific Crest
>  Trailway, but to Clarke's thinking the  PCT was only the American  portion
> of a much
> longer trail.
> 
> While I'm at  it, does anyone own, or know the location of, a copy of the
> original  1935 guide to the  PCT?

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