Said he mistook him for an elk. That’s pan-racist isnt it???
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Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"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."
Highly recommend Benard Devoto’s edition "The Journals of Lewis & Clark"
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
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
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Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"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."
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
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.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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.
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Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"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."
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.
Originally Posted by 16penny
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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.
And I believe they enjoyed the experience.
Originally Posted by kaywoodie
Highly recommend Benard Devoto’s edition "The Journals of Lewis & Clark"
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.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)