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Sacajawea Paul Revere’s Ride myNotes

by Joseph Bruchac, page 263 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, page 279
Expedition from present-day North Dakota Urgent mission from Boston to Lexington,
to Pacific Ocean, on foot Massachusetts, on horseback
Miles: about 1,400 Miles: 18
Flying Time: about 3 hours Driving Time: about 30 minutes
Driving Time: about 21 hours Riding Time on Horseback: about 90 minutes
Walking Time: about 55 days, walking 8 hours per day Mystic (Medfor d)
Mystic (Medford)
Lexington
Lexington
Common
Common
PACIFIC Menotomy Boston Harbor
Menotomy
OCEAN Missouri River (Arlington) Paul Revere House
(Arlington)
Paul Rever
e House
Missouri River
Museum,
Oregon Bismar c k, Museum, Boston
Oregon
Boston
Bismarck,
coast Columbia River North Dakota
North Dakota
coast Columbia River
American patriot Paul Revere’s
famous 1775 ride from Boston’s
Shoshone guide Sacajawea North End to Lexington was not
lived in a small Native long, but his mission—to warn
American village in present- his fellow patriots that the British
day North Dakota when she were coming—was important.
joined American explorers START Boston’s Paul Revere House museum
Meriwether Lewis and END Lexington Common
William Clark in 1805 on their
quest to find a waterway to Jason and the
the Pacific Ocean. Today, that village is
part of a small metropolitan area near Golden Fleece
Bismarck, the capital city of North Dakota. Greek myth, page 245
START present-day Bismarck, North Dakota Sea quest from Pelion, Thessaly, Greece
END The Oregon coast to Colchis in Eurasia
Miles: about 1,300
Flying Time: about 2.5 hours
Sailing Time: about 6 days by yacht
Black Sea
Georgia
Georgia
Mt. Pelion,
Mt. Pelion,
Gr
Greeceeece Caspian Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Mythical hero Jason and his band of
Argonauts embark on a quest to find the
legendary Golden Fleece. To the ancient
Greeks, the land of Colchis—Jason’s
destination—lay beyond the edge of the
known world. Today, Colchis is the country
of Georgia, where Europe and Asia meet.
START Mount Pelion, Greece
END present-day Georgia, in Eurasia

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