Post by RobbK1 on Mar 4, 2018 3:53:47 GMT
But on the map they show Duckburg forming the southern half of The San Joaquin Valley (Bakersfield to Fresno), and including the foothills and peaks of the western side of The Sierra Nevada Mountains, and California's coast from Santa Barbara toBig Sur. While Mouseville takes up the western half of Florida's peninsula, a lot closer to hickey Pensacola, rather than the much further south Tampa-St. Petersburg Metropolitan Area.
I would place Duckburg near Eureka, and Mouseville near The Mississippi River (eastern) boundary between Calisota and Minnesota (not too far from Duluth). I have no USA (as we know it) in my Duck/Mouse Universe, an ALTERNATE Universe, with a different Planet Earth, and a different development path and history.
Barks may have chosen "Calisota" as the state's name, because he wanted to combine the name of 2 existing states, and needed to beastly identifiable, but, also, the ending needed to sound logically like a suffix, or an ending that sounded like a Native American name (a heritage which he used many times in his stories, (often without leaving Calisota).