wabigoon;
Good evening my friend, I hope the weather you're all getting is better than the blast we're about to receive here and that you and yours are well.
On one trip down through the country they travelled through I picked up a copy of their journals edited by Bernard DeVoto and have read it a couple times.
It was a really hard existence so thanks kindly but no, especially not at my current age I wouldn't prefer to have been in on it.
If you or our fellow campfire members like that sort of reading, here's a bit of a list.
This fellow, Alexander Ross worked for the Pacific Fur Company and helped establish the fort at what would become Astoria near where Lewis and Clark wintered.
https://www.amazon.ca/Adventures-Se...swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=This chap, John Palliser was a Irish nobleman who led an expedition less than 60 years after Lewis and Clark went below the medicine line to find the Pacific. Nobody other than the Natives knew much about the area as far as soil types, precipitation, temperature, etc. It was Palliser who laid the groundwork that enabled western expansion of farming in Canada.
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/palliser-expedition/author/spry-irene-m/Lastly, Charles Wilson was one of the Royal Engineers tasked with actually determining where the medicine line was, at least here in BC from the coast to the foothills of the Rockies.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52652258-mapping-the-frontierAll of the books I've mentioned go into how "interesting" the conditions were out west here back then.
Anyways wabigoon, there's a reading list for the year!
All the best to you all in 2022.
Dwayne
