Which of the following statements from the selection best supports the idea that David Thompson's work made Lewis and Clark look like tourists"?
A By 1812, David Thompson had traveled 80,00 miles across Canada by canoe, horseback, dogsled.
8,000 miles on their journeys)
and foot. (By comparison, Lewis and Clark traveled
B It seems strange that a man who did such astounding and important work should be almost
celebrate his own accomplishments.
entirely forgotten, but Thompson was never one to
C This journey opened up a whole new world to the young David Thompson. Traveling by river, exploring new places, meeting other peoples-this kind of life became Thompson's passion.
D Over the next 14 years, David Thompson was stationed mainly at Rocky Mountain House, a Northwest Company trading post in what is now Alberta. He explored the present-day Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.