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To: Bernard Marx

I assume you heard the replica of Ft. Clatsop burned down this last year.


177 posted on 01/12/2006 6:45:03 PM PST by WHATNEXT? (That's PRESIDENT BUSH (not Mr.)!!)
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To: WHATNEXT?

Yes, but it can be replaced. It was a replica anyhow and I seem to recall reading the rebuild would give archaeologists a chance to look for more artifacts and straighten out some of the errors that were made originally. All I can think of when I hear about the place is the really miserable winter the group spent there: so wet all the time their leather clothes actually rotted off their bodies. The diet was awful: boiled elk and wappato root. To this day I can't understand why Jefferson didn't send a ship to meet them with fresh supplies.


185 posted on 01/12/2006 8:42:15 PM PST by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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