Posted on 07/04/2019 3:02:51 PM PDT by fugazi
Ilove tha. I’ve made it my computer wallpaper for today.
They didn’t have accurate information about how far the distance between the “Great Divide” was and the coast, it’s a lot farther than they thought. Initially they thought it was just a couple days portage. They practically starved in the mountains of Montana and Idaho. A lot of the game animals are actually plains animals, or at least migrated to lower elevations back then.
Jefferson had provided them a draft payable by the Treasury, to be used when they got to the coast, if they happened to run into a ship they could catch a ride back to the states. They just missed one or two sailing ships by maybe by a month.
Yup! In 2003 I read their entire series of diaries at one time. Then in 2004-2005 I read their diary entries on the day it happened 200 years later.
“Journals”.
Yup! “Journals”. Whatever they’re called I read them twice from start to finish. I recommend to fellow Freepers to do the same.
Freeman, both.
Freemasons.
Absolutely, I was just rereading it. What an amazing saga.
Great reading and you gotta love Clark’s spelling... I don’t know that he spells the same word the same way twice. I may be able to spell, but I probably don’t have 1 percent of their wilderness skills.
I can’t spell worth a XXXX. Lewis and Clark selected men that had an expertise in wilderness skills. This diversity made the unit successful.
“They dismissed the tails at their peril.”
I thought bear tails didn’t exist? :)
Hey, we saved your English asses twice last century, so there!...............
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