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Who's responsible?
Bob
Graham
Sacramento, CA
I have attempted to make this web site easy to
use. Over the past five years, like Stowe's
Topsy, it just growed. It still grows, and
takes some trouble to keep manageable. I have dropped the
frames format and added a navigation bar to the top of each
page. When following notes and links, it will return you
right to where you left off.
I have also added Google®
to the navigation bar, so that this site may be
searched with key words. Google®
is, without doubt, the Mother of all Search
Engines! It takes a couple of days for updates and
additions to become indexed, so a list of the most recent of
these can be found with the recents
button.
 I
started out making web pages with simple text editors
after my daughter (then 12 years old) taught me some hand
coding. You can see one of these early pages in the first
link below. But for some years now, I have used Claris
Homepage®. I have tried many website
authoring applications, but still prefer Homepage because of
its ability to instantly switch between preview and html
modes--I still like to hand code sometimes. See
Claris HP in action!
My first website--two pages that Clara made
for me when she was thirteen. She thought it was pretty
funny. It is. I have kept if as part of my site by adding a
link forward.
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 My
first computer was an Apple Powerbook 100 (16
MHz processor, 6 MB of RAM) that my daughter Clara
had outgrown about 1994. At 5.1 lbs, it was the
World's First Laptop. Although
recently selected as the Greatest Gadget of All
Time by Mobile PC magazine, my present website
wouldn't fit on that 40MB hard drive today! But I
learned to use Microsoft Word on it and created my
first version of The
Crossing.
Then a Powerbook 1400 (hot-rodded CPU) that
trickeled down when my wife Jane and daughter Clara
both got first-generation iMacs. My first computer
that was really mine was a used two-year-old
purchased used on eBay--the original Powerbook G3
(code name KANGA), which in 1996 was the
World's Fastest Laptop.
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But now I use Apple OS X.
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GNOME is nice, KDE is fine
[LINUX], and the forthcoming
Looking Glass may be wonderful, but the
best UNIX desktop is the one in the
Macintosh, and you'll find it running
on any Mac running Mac OS X. Based on
"Mach," a university UNIX research
prototype.
eWeek, October 13,
2004.
It is one-tenth the size of Vista.
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My ftp is handled by the freeware
OneButton
FTP--the simplest and f-a-s-t-e-s-t I
have ever used!
Our wireless network is an Apple Airport connected
to Surewest fiber optic digital cable at a speed of
10Mbps.
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What do I get out
of this, anyway?
No cookies--No
ads
I have a lot of fun with these projects; it is
just a hobby, and puts no money in my pocket, which means
that, from a pecuniary vantage, it sure beats my old
profession of farming! Though
I have contacts with many history groups, I have, over many
years, looked at these issues quite independently, using my
own resourses, and following my own leads. From this web
site, I have made many interesting contacts and met many
interesting people--hikers, historians and history buffs,
astronomers, surveyors, treasure hunters, botanists,
geologists....
  an
email from a Forest Service nature guide.
I am gratified to find
that my site has acquired links from many educational web
sites and resource sites, including he
following:
- The National University of Singapore
- The University of Bonn
- Celestial Navigation in the Classroom
- World Book online
- Lehrstuhl für Didaktik der Physik
Würzburg
- Columbia University
- Southern Polytechnic (Georgia)
- United States Corps of Topgraphical
Engineers
- University of California San Diego
- Education on the World Wide Web
- Trails West --Markers of the California
Trail
- Indigenous Peoples Institute
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- Education America Network
- The University of Kansas
- Four Directions Institute
- Plebius - Architecture of the Mind
- BigTome.com
- Lassen County California: History and
Culture
- Minnesota Public Radio: The Writer's
Almanac
- ENFIA -- The Eldorado National Forest
Interpretive Association
- Mill Valley Schools
- Wirtualna Polska
- Museum of Local History; Fremont, CA
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 H-CALIFORNIA,
H-NET.MSU.EDU
[Editor's note: Bob tells me that the Long Camp
site is his hobby. And what a hobby!
The camp site referred to above is depicted on the
site in a photo that Bob took after hiking to it in
snowshoes!! The site has a number of other
Fremont-related links.. DSS]
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And in these recently published
books:
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 Pathfinder;
John C Fremont and the Course of American
Empire, Tom Chaffin, Hill & Wang, New
York, 2002
A very nice mention and the URL to this website
on the first page of the introduction. Wow!
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 John
Charles Frémont: Western Pathfinder,
Barbara Witteman, Capstone Press: Bridgestone
Books, Part of Exploring the West Biographies, New
York, 2002
This one is from a series of youth books. It
contains links to the publisher's accompanying
Internet search feature--FactHound--which leads to
this website. A credit and url are also in the
book.
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Devil's
Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story
, Tom Rea, University of Oklahoma Press,
2006.
The history of the Sweetwater River valley in
central Wyoming--a remote place including Devil's
Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a
stretch of the Oregon Trail.
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 And
the Eldorado National Forest Interpretive
Association's new guide, Hiking
in the Greater Carson Pass Region, contains
a map and hiking directions to Frémont's
Long
Camp, the historic site first discovered
and presented on this website.
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