Alexander von Humboldt

His journey continued until he reached a point in Kansas near Fort Leavenworth, and here he made a camp and proceeded to build a new home.

Little Billy was then a boy, living the life and learning the lessons of the plains, while Humboldt was wondering what secrets were hidden in the center of the continent, and the geographical societies of the world were speculating upon the mysteries that lay far beyond the banks of the Father of Waters.

At that time this region was as little known and as dark a continent as Africa before the courage of Stanley laid bare its conformation and geography.

The Indians had not then been confined to reservations, but were fiercely resisting the encroachments of the white man upon their territory.

and called it New Fort Kearney; one at Laramie, on the Platte River, fifty miles north of Laramie City, now a station situated on the Union Pacific Railroad; and one at old Fort Hall, a Hudson Bay trading post near the present site of Pocatello.

This was called the military route, and was the road traveled by most of the emigrants to California in eighteen forty-nine.

Passing by Soda Springs and south of Snake River to the headwaters of the Humboldt or St. Mary's River through Nevada, it passed through the South Pass and struck Bear River, now in Idaho and Utah.

The emigration of eighteen fifty diverged southward from Laramie and passed Green River at its junction with Ham's Fork, through Echo Canyon and Salt Lake Valley westwardly via Reese River, striking the Humboldt lower down and crossing the Sierra Nevada at the Truckee Pass and by Donner Lake.

... was invented by white people, by a, a German anthropologist or historian.

Humboldt?

Humboldt, yeah.

Yeah.

So, you know, the word Aztec is, you know, they never called themselves Aztecs.

He told them, 'You are no longer called Azteca.

Now you are Mexica.' There, he put feathers in their ears.

In this way, the Mexica took their name." So we know that the word Azteca is a traditional word, so hopefully we could debunk and eliminate that erroneous urban legend that the [laughs] that Aztec is a fake term invented by Humboldt.