Attitude Mirror

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

Ever wonder how early traders communicated with different groups that don’t share a similar language? This “Languages of the Fur Trade ” article from the National Park Service site has some details, albeit specific to Bent’s Fort which was an “adobe trading post on the Santa Fe Trail, where traders, trappers, travelers, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes came together in peaceful terms for trade”. Traders, who spent years along side tribes they traded with, picked up some of the language and could become translators. However, there were a lot of different tribes which led to the use of hand signs. “The use of signs was widespread and a combination of only 75 or 100 signs could allow a person to carry on a lengthy conversation.”

About the author

Earl Nightingale V (March 12, 1921 – March 25, 1989) was an American radio speaker and author, dealing mostly with the subjects of human character development, motivation, and meaningful existence. He was the voice during the early 1950s of Sky King, the hero of a radio adventure series, and was a WGN radio program host from 1950 to 1956. Nightingale was the author of The Strangest Secret, which economist Terry Savage has termed “…one of the great motivational books of all time.” During his lifetime, Nightingale wrote and recorded more than 7,000 radio programs, 250 audio programs as well as television programs and videos.