How Far West Am I?: The Almanac as An Explorer's Yardstick

Authors

Arlen J. Large, The Wall Street Journal

Date of this Version

1993

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 13:2 (Spring 1993). Copyright © 1993 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

On 14 September 1494, three ships from Spain lay anchored at the southeastern tip of Hispaniola. Their admiral, Christopher Columbus, looked up at a full moon expecting something to happen, and it did.