Being part of the Lewis and Clark expedition would have been epic too!
Nah, I am not that fond of dog meat, gonorrhea, or syphilis.
They ate a lot more than dogs. The game was extremely plentiful, but the winter overs were hard.
200 years ago people weren't stupid. They knew sticking your pecker in the wrong place was not good. So not everyone had VD because not everyone had low character.
Life was hard, no doubt about it. Here is a great story on how Lewis was shot in the arse by his hunting partner because, well spectacles were in short supply in the wilderness.
https://www.lewis-clark.org/article/3011Ya, life was more difficult. Life is more than avoiding risk. Any of us can die at any time for a whole host of modern reasons. Hell, degenerative diseases have sky rocketed in modern times. A whole host of aliments were much rarer then, like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
