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While Constable Earp did his bit, the Lamar City Council and Chamber of Commerce continued to search for someone to erect two neon signs at the city limits. Said Businessman Gordon Boyer...
...trip from Greenland to "Vinland'' about 1000 A.D., he decides that Vinland must have been somewhere in the vicinity of Narragansett Bay. Three centuries later, he notes, a certain Paul Knutson was ordered by the King of Norway and Sweden to lead an expedition in search of Greenland colonists who were reported to have forsaken Christianity and moved away. Where would they go? Vinland, naturally. So off Knutson and his men sailed for Narragansett Bay; they arrived there...
There was no one in sight. Holand's theory is that Knutson detached members of his party to investigate. This was the band, according to Holand, that reached Minnesota-after a boat trip calculated to make even a Viking tremble. Assumes Holand: the searchers would first search the Atlantic seaboard north of Vinland, then keep on going; hence their route ran up the Atlantic coast into Hudson Bay, down Hudson Bay to the Nelson River, Lake Winnipeg and the Red River into Minnesota's lake country. There, while looking for an overland route back to Vinland, the party...
...transport began to smoke, rolled over on its side, plunged into a wooded hillside. The two Americans started for the scene of the crash. They scrambled up granite slopes past a Yugoslav officer who paid no attention to them. But when they started down the mountain after a futile search for the wreck, the Yugoslavs had set up a machine gun at a roadblock, carefully checked their identification...
...Named for Benjamin Davis Wilson, a winegrower who blazed a trail up the 5,710-foot mountain in 1864 in search of lumber for wine casks...