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When the tornado roared across southern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwestern Indiana for many hours during the afternoon on March 18th in 1925, there was now way that people along the tornado path would know it was occurring before they could see it. This was because there was no radar systems then and the National Weather Service was not able to let people know that a tornado was going to occur or that there was a tornado already occurring since they did not know much about tornadoes. So, the only way a person then was able to know that a tornado was occurring and it was going to hit them was when they were able to see it close to where they were and realize that it was a tornado. ...
Merchants and armies followed the same routes into Mexico's far northern territory in the late 1840s - west over the Santa Fe Trail and south down the Chihuahua Trail. The lands traversed were harsh, and the journey was made through unfriendly areas. Among the many travelers who endured the dangers and discomforts on the trail was George Rutledge Gibson, whose eyewitness account is the most complete record of a soldier's observations on a land considered strange and alien. Gibson came to New Mexico as a second lieutenant with Col. Stephen Kearny's expeditionary force in the summer of 1846. The next spring he served as assistant quartermaster and commissary with Col. Alexander Doniphan's marc...