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Name The "No Name" Contest!
- Thread starter JK Knives
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Congratulations snippy. Thanks Mr. K for the great contest. This was alot of fun.
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Way to go Snippy! Happy for you. Congrats!
Thanks to you, John, as well. This was a good time.
And thank you to everyone for being welcoming to me. Can't wait to get my first JK - a Camp and Trail HD.
Thanks to you, John, as well. This was a good time.
And thank you to everyone for being welcoming to me. Can't wait to get my first JK - a Camp and Trail HD.
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Wow - I really wanted to win, but thought it was a long shot!
This is an honor, truly. And I have learned a lot about JK handmade knives along the way. And the people. I'm so happy to be joining you all!
Eric
(Going to have trouble getting to sleep tonight!)
This is an honor, truly. And I have learned a lot about JK handmade knives along the way. And the people. I'm so happy to be joining you all!
Eric
(Going to have trouble getting to sleep tonight!)
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That was fun! Congrats Snippy!!
JK Knives
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I also wanted to mention that there was another name Connie and I both picked. We did not feel it was right for this model, but it will be used on another "old timey style" model.
The Sauk Trail from B JACKSON. Brad will receive a $25 credit towards a furure knife purchase.
Sauk Trail began as a Native American trail running through Illinois, Indiana and Michigan in the United States. From west to east, the trail ran from Rock Island on the Mississippi River to the Illinois River near modern Peru then along the north bank of that river to Joliet, and on to Valparaiso, Indiana. Then it ran northeasterly to La Porte and into southern Michigan running through Niles, Three Rivers, Ypsilanti, and ending at the Detroit River near Detroit. The trail followed a winding path around natural topography including following the ridges of dune and moraines that mark the earlier glacial period Lake Michigan shorelines. European settlers improved the trail into a wagon road and later into modern highways, although these often have been straightened and rerouted.
There is a suggestion that sections of the trail followed the southern boundary between the dense forest and the mixed grassland regions. The presence of a mastodon trail along the same path indicates that the Native Americans may have been using a long established game trail. Henry Schoolcraft, at present-day Michigan City, Indiana in 1820, describes the trail, as a "plain horse path, which is considerably traveled by traders, hunters, and others..." and said that a stranger could not follow it without the services of a guide because of the numerous side trails. The Sauk Trail intersected many important trails and early roads including the trails to Vincennes, to Green Bay, to Fort Wayne and to Little Traverse Bay.
Early European settlers used the trail including perhaps René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in 1678 to reach Fort Miami, an early fur trade post. Later traders and their Indian suppliers would continue to use the trail. The French and later British militaries used the trail during the time when they occupied Fort St. Joseph. In 1781, the Spanish also used the trail when they raided Fort St. Joseph during the American Revolutionary War.
To better supply the isolated Fort Dearborn in Chicago, the American Congress passed an act to construct a road from Chicago to Detroit. The surveying for this Chicago Road began in 1825 but financial shortfalls led to a decision to mostly follow the path of the Sauk Trail which military couriers were already using. By 1835, daily stagecoach departures run by the Western Stage Company traveled all the way from Chicago to Detroit on a multi-day trip whose travel time was dependent on how bad the road was at the particular season. The Chicago Road was described as "a huge serpent, lazily pursuing its onward course, utterly unconcerned as to its destination."
Sections of the trail still exist in some form; for example, the winding road still called Sauk Trail which runs from Frankfort, Illinois to Dyer, Indiana. Johnson-Sauk Trail State Recreation Area in western Illinois sits on another section of the trail. When the Lincoln Highway, the first national transcontinental highway was built, its route through western Indiana followed the roads built over the Sauk Trail.
Although called the Sauk Trail after the Sauk tribe, other local tribes (such as the Fox, Ho-Chunk (Winnebago), Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Kaskaskia, and Peoria) were known to use it and the trail probably predates Sac presence in the area.
The Sauk Trail from B JACKSON. Brad will receive a $25 credit towards a furure knife purchase.
Sauk Trail began as a Native American trail running through Illinois, Indiana and Michigan in the United States. From west to east, the trail ran from Rock Island on the Mississippi River to the Illinois River near modern Peru then along the north bank of that river to Joliet, and on to Valparaiso, Indiana. Then it ran northeasterly to La Porte and into southern Michigan running through Niles, Three Rivers, Ypsilanti, and ending at the Detroit River near Detroit. The trail followed a winding path around natural topography including following the ridges of dune and moraines that mark the earlier glacial period Lake Michigan shorelines. European settlers improved the trail into a wagon road and later into modern highways, although these often have been straightened and rerouted.
There is a suggestion that sections of the trail followed the southern boundary between the dense forest and the mixed grassland regions. The presence of a mastodon trail along the same path indicates that the Native Americans may have been using a long established game trail. Henry Schoolcraft, at present-day Michigan City, Indiana in 1820, describes the trail, as a "plain horse path, which is considerably traveled by traders, hunters, and others..." and said that a stranger could not follow it without the services of a guide because of the numerous side trails. The Sauk Trail intersected many important trails and early roads including the trails to Vincennes, to Green Bay, to Fort Wayne and to Little Traverse Bay.
Early European settlers used the trail including perhaps René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in 1678 to reach Fort Miami, an early fur trade post. Later traders and their Indian suppliers would continue to use the trail. The French and later British militaries used the trail during the time when they occupied Fort St. Joseph. In 1781, the Spanish also used the trail when they raided Fort St. Joseph during the American Revolutionary War.
To better supply the isolated Fort Dearborn in Chicago, the American Congress passed an act to construct a road from Chicago to Detroit. The surveying for this Chicago Road began in 1825 but financial shortfalls led to a decision to mostly follow the path of the Sauk Trail which military couriers were already using. By 1835, daily stagecoach departures run by the Western Stage Company traveled all the way from Chicago to Detroit on a multi-day trip whose travel time was dependent on how bad the road was at the particular season. The Chicago Road was described as "a huge serpent, lazily pursuing its onward course, utterly unconcerned as to its destination."
Sections of the trail still exist in some form; for example, the winding road still called Sauk Trail which runs from Frankfort, Illinois to Dyer, Indiana. Johnson-Sauk Trail State Recreation Area in western Illinois sits on another section of the trail. When the Lincoln Highway, the first national transcontinental highway was built, its route through western Indiana followed the roads built over the Sauk Trail.
Although called the Sauk Trail after the Sauk tribe, other local tribes (such as the Fox, Ho-Chunk (Winnebago), Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Kaskaskia, and Peoria) were known to use it and the trail probably predates Sac presence in the area.
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Congrats to Snippy and to his ROGUE. I liked that name also.
Thanks John for the credit, my brain is already spinning out of control deciding how to use it!
I drove that twisty stretch of The Sauk Trail nearly every day for 7 years, to and from work.
There is a historical marker near Western Ave. that tells some of the tale
The other well used trail that I come into contact with often is the Vincennes Trail, runs from Chicago to Vincennes Indiana. But thats another story
Thanks John for the credit, my brain is already spinning out of control deciding how to use it!
I drove that twisty stretch of The Sauk Trail nearly every day for 7 years, to and from work.
There is a historical marker near Western Ave. that tells some of the tale
The other well used trail that I come into contact with often is the Vincennes Trail, runs from Chicago to Vincennes Indiana. But thats another story
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My favorite trail is the I&M Canal Trail. Connie and I have walked quite a bit of it, and come across some interesting things. Stone walls, shelters, two lock keeper`s homes, the old grainery, the mule barn from the days the canal was being used.
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Yeah, I guess that means Red in French, but here it means one willing to go against the grain or out on ones own fearlessly. Or something like that.
Cheers,
Eric
(edit: Red in French is Rouge!)
lol
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