Grinnell -- July 24, 2024

Locator: 48222B.

After Sophia's family returned from a trip to Montana, specifically Glacier National Park, the name "Grinnell" popped up often. 

So, in the order in which I searched (ChatGPT would have been faster, but not as much fun). 

A generic google search resulted in this:

And, then, of course, the rest was easy. Next:

And, then, wiki:

But this was most entertaining. Look at the search and then looked what popped up as the first hit! Whoo-hoo!

From 2014! Wow! What a hoot!

I don't know if Grinnell ever made it to North Dakota but with his close friendship with Teddy Roosevelt my hunch is, that if he didn't, he still knew a lot about North Dakota. But to have a geographic location in North Dakota named after him, certainly suggests he was there.

The Pawnee people: Central Plains Indian tribe historically associated with Nebraska and northern Kansas. Language: Caddoan family.  

In Memoriam, from The Auk: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology.

This does not say Grinnell actually returned to North Dakota, but it's hard to believe that he did not:

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One Of My Large-Leave Plants

Update: a new leaf has just unfurled. 

A couple of days ago:

Today: