You have heard of Lewis and Clark Expedition. This is a follow on piece on William Clark's later map shenanigans. American ‘hero’ plotted massive land grab and | EurekAlert! I'm unsure how to think about it, and seek other views. On one hand we may be inclined to forgive peoples' actions that seem wrong to us now, but were well within their own zeitgeist. On the other hand, this guy has statuary, right? The (earlier) expedition itself was quite a thing, retold in fascinating detail, but this is different.
sorry bud. if true, it's a good overview of post lewis and clark history. when we were at one of the smithsonians, there was a display that wasn't so kindly to jefferson either. they implied that the whole thing was just a strategy to relieve the native americans of their land. a lot of blood was shed, but i'm no expert.
Westward Ho seems inevitable in retrospect. But perhaps it could have been accomplished more gracefully? Outward Ho may never actually be graceful. I get that. But possibly we are burdened to consider all of history, not just the heroic parts.
it's a bloody subject, not for the faint hearted. maybe more reparations? i also read that jfk made a promise to native americans that he did not keep.
Lewis died sooner after the big trip. Shot himself twice. Maybe. The Death of Meriwether Lewis: Suicide or Murder? - Criminal Element
i never really considered that other countries were interested. i wonder what that would have looked like, had they succeeded
Spain and England both were interested. But had very long supply chains, Atlantic hurricanes, and shipworms if they economized on copper plating. == For oldest cipher I go with Spartans' scytale. Earlier Egyptian hieroglyphs seem to mostly have been dirty jokes. Too bad we can't stay on topic.'Twould be worse with @bisco and me in the same room.
"......Lewis was found at daylight with a gunshot to the chest and one to the head, and, apparently, several knife wounds. He died shortly thereafter." Yeeeah. Right. Had to be suicide. Just like Epstein. Given the frequency and dosage of mercury as a "curative" as documented in Ambrose's account of the trip, it's not surprising that Lewis was............mad as a hatter. Murder is a not to be ruled out either as Meriwether would probably have had some 'dissatisfied client/backers' as a result of his "business dealings." Tony Hayes is a little "off" in his article in dealing with the firearms used in this incident...starting with..."For anyone familiar with firearms..." The pistols used were (allegedly) a set of two horse pistols picked up by Lewis in 1803 from the Schuylkill Arsenal in PA almost certainly a "brace" of Model 1799 single-shot flintlocks (flinch-locks) Only a fool carried ONE pistol because hang-fires, misfires, and low order discharges were the order of the day. Hence the practice of carrying a BRACE of pistols...something that firearms inertia carried into the late 1800s when six-shooters were sometimes worn in pairs - albeit more often in MOVIES than in real life. There's an old joke in American hand-gunning that 115+115=230...which means that you usually need TWO 115-grain 9mm bullets to do the job of ONE 230-grain .45 round. Bullets....like mercury, you see were dolled out by the "grain" NOT Gram since Persian traders weren't on the metric system EITHER. That old joke is a little funny but it displays an Alec Baldwin level of firearms knowledge, and anyone who talks about "knock-down" power of this pistol round versus that one should generally be ignored. After all.....it doesn't knock the shooter down...
