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Comparing The Legendary Journeys Of John Colter And Tom Murphy

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I will be comparing two legendary explorers, John Colter and Tom Murphy. The main difference is probably the time difference that they explored. John Colter started his most famous journey, the Lewis and Clark journey, was over 180 years before Tom Murphy 's famous journey. But they are similar because they are both very famous and looked up to by explorers. To start, John Colter is almost 160 years older than Tom Murphy. They both had multiple famous journeys (Colter 's biggest being the Lewis and Clark, Murphy 's was being in Yellowstone 's harsh conditions in the winter). People say that Colter is better because he didn’t have the things that Murphy had. Colter only lived to the age of 39 and Murphy died at the age of 83. So Murphy

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