[muawiyah]

Are you telling me Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger didn’t actually exist?

[tantiboh]

~”Are you telling me Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger didn’t actually exist?”~

Of course not. But you said: “Bill Clinton’s forebears and mine were on those trails long before the Mormons.”

Smith and Bridger may have been there before the Mormons (the Ute Indians had been living there for many moons) but they certainly didn’t build “those trails” into the Basin.

I hope we’re not getting bogged into a semantical argument...