Talk:Stephen Harriman Long

Expedition change
Some one changed the end of this sentence "They missed it, ran into hostile Indians and had to eventually eat their own horses to survive before they finally met the other part of the expedition at Belle Point in Oklahoma" to "Fort Smith in Arkansas". Anybody know which is right or have a reference? --Jolomo 20:53, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 09:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Improved - remove stub status??
I've made several improvements to the article, step-by-step, over the last few days. Long's an interesting figure, he must have been quite a "mover and shaker" in his time. The article was crying out for some pix (none), so I've added two. I created the "representation" of his full portrait, as I found no decent full colour version (a few colour close-ups are floating around on the web, but cropped so tightly that they make him seem thin and spindly - better the full portrait, as intended by the artist, so that's what I've recreated based on a poor but whole B&W version found). The article needs a map of Long's exploration routes, to help it further. It also needs cleaning up a little more (it has stuff about inventions/patents, but no source refs - any railway fan care to investigate?), but at least it's no longer a "stub". Hopefully someone else in charge of "stub rating" will reclassify the article accordingly (I'm not sure how best to do that, so I'll leave that for others). Pete Hobbs (talk) 02:57, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Structural Engineer
His role as pioneering structural engineer (bridge construction) is missing. See Kurrer History of the theory of structures 2008 or F. E. Griggs, A. J. DeLuzio: Stephen H. Long and Squire Whipple: the first american structural engineers, Journal of Structural Engineering, Band 121, 1995, S. 1352-1361--Claude J (talk) 08:28, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree. His role as an early civil engineer on the B&O railroad is passed over.I would propose to revamp the article to discuss his career as a civil engineer,add his patents and published works as other engineering biographies do, see G W Whistler, Henry Campbell two contemporaries... Cheers .. Risk Engineer (talk) 22:13, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Places Named after Long
Since Long explored, many places were named after Long, such as Long's Peak in Colorado, as well as Longmont. I think info like this should be included in Steven H. Long's article. Here's a source: http://longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/museum/collections/longmont-history-timeline — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.166.4.242 (talk) 21:10, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

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