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kaywoodie;
Good evening my cyber friend, I do hope you folks are warmer and getting less snow than we're about to partake of.

When I was doing up my 2022 reading list above, I thought that you'd either enjoy them or might have read them.

As mentioned I've got a copy of DeVoto's book and have read it a couple times.

It's interesting to me how quickly on their heels the Pacific Fur Company was out establishing posts.

Anyways sir, all the very best to you in 2022.

Dwayne

We can’t ask York. He dead

And , Cruzatte shot Lewis in the ass!

But they was both white.

Said he mistook him for an elk. That’s pan-racist isnt it???

Brave men indeed.

York was popular with the ladies.

In the area of Montana that I grew up, they would have dealt with rattle snakes and grizzly bears.

Very few men today could make that trip under the same conditions.

Thanks Dwayne! Got up to a pleasant 73F today. Was almost 80 yesterday and day before!

My fav is the Santa Fe trail reading! Also read a good diary by Lt. James W. Abert on his topographical expedition thru Raton Pass and down the southern Canadian river into the nations.

And the much earlier Freeman-Custis expedition.

Little known but exciting stuff.

Have a great weekend Dwayne. I’ll be off Saturday morning to the villa de Austin on the Brazos river (San Felipe) for an Eighth of January celebration. Big national holiday!!!

You take care!

Ton ami

Kaywoodie

I live a couple hundred yards from the Yellowstone River that Clark made his return trip to meet Lewis at the confluence of the Yellowstone and the Missouri rivers.
I would have loved to have been on that trip!

The Yellowstone probably still looks the same now as it did to Clark

Little known fact.


While it is true that the expedition suffered many westward challenges, the return trip back east was actually quite comfortable.

Clark was reported to be especially fond of Amtrak's sky car.

Having seen and ridden along the Upper Missouri from Great Falls Mt west in 2019, I am friggin amazed they poled a boat against that current, the labor required must have been astronomical.

yes. Through Idaho going west they found no game at all. They ate 1 horse.

They lived for more than 2 years on meat and water.

^^^This^^^

What a wet and miserable winter they spent in Oreegone. Can't even imagine.


Tough bastards, for sure.


The stories of the meat hunters were cool. Can you imagine bringing down elk with an air rifle?

I would have jumped at the chance as a young guy back in that time. One of the most uncomfortable aspects even over hunger and danger would have been the mosquitoes IMO. I read that at one point they were so thick that even the dog they brought with them howled in agony. I hate skeeters!

Many members were treated with mercury! Just like in the old song! Some camesites have been verified by locating mercury traces in the latrine areas.

David Thompson's journey, though much smaller, was a good one as well.

https://www.historylink.org/file/5097

https://www.sandpointonline.com/sandpointmag/sms09/david_thompson.html

The original PBS Lewis and Clark series was a staple at camp whenever the satellite porn would go down. This Fall, someone popped the VHS tape in and the VCR promptly ate it. It was the end of an era.

Thank you Thomas Jefferson

The hardships of the trip were much closer to the hardships of daily life in those days.

Bruce

Good point.

And I believe they enjoyed the experience.



I will have to keep an eye out for that one. I've got a U of Nebraska press, edited by Moulton that was a decent read.