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Think you would have like being on it?
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Back when men were men and women were glad of it.
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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Always been a dream of mine. They had a vision. Get the eff away from the east coast! HAHA!
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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
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We’re you part of it, Wabi?
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werent they almost starving at one point during the journey?
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You should follow the trail. I've done parts of it and it is interesting to see how the circumnavigated parts of the country. It is certainly a bit out of context given our modern road system.
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Sergeant Floyd would probably opt out of it.
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werent they almost starving at one point during the journey? They ate approx. 400 dogs while on the trip. But they didn’t eat Seaman.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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I read Undaunted Courage and couldn't put it down. The expedition is an unbelievable story.
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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 Dwayne, I've read on Palliser's Triangle.
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Highly recommend Benard Devoto’s edition "The Journals of Lewis & Clark"
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Bob, you have all the correct clothing for the journey.
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Think you would have like being on it?
Weren't they racists?
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They brought some cool guns along with them, to include very powerful air rifles.
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I would not have like to been on it, unless I had some of the conveniences of today. That’s an awful long camping trip. Guess I’m getting soft, as 10 days in a tent in Ak with rain every day, was all I could endure.
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