Posted on 04/15/2012 7:48:33 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Bump for Monday.
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for later
Coulter was one of the hunters on the Lewis and Clark trip. Two weeks from St. Louis on the return he left the expedition and joined with two Frenchmen on a fur trapping venture the eventually led to his famous “Coulter’s Run”.
Great post! Thanks!
The Birth of Lesbians...
“The Women were pleased, and said all the Men were fools that drank fire water . . . the Women in general kept themselves sober, and when the men were about to drink hid all the Arms, and Knives and left them nothing but their teeth and fists to fight with.”
Not to mention Jedidiah Smith...
Who knew Janet Napolitano was a Blackfoot?
“Who knew Janet Napolitano was a Blackfoot?”
LOL!
“His accomplishments are mind blowing for the time.”
80,000 miles in the field is good for today, particularly for land travel.
Another person that is not often mentioned in helping people get to Oregon is Marie Dorion, a native American who was married to a Frend man Not nearly as famous as Sacajawea. But she did similar things.
Looks like you drained that bottle ;)
Great post, amazing story! Thanks for posting.
Other than horses, guns, alcohol and disease, there apparently isn't anything else to note about the Europeans.
YOu really should go to bed and sleep it off
Alas the author takes the PC modern approach which will get less traction here than the conservative approach to this story. Rather than tell us that David Thompson was a late 20th or early 21st Century leftist before his time and probably had a COEXIST bumper sticker on his horse or something, the author might have drawn the comparison that Lewis and Clark were government funded and Thompson appears to have at least initially come over via the private sector and maybe struck out as an entrepreneur.
My conjecture could be why Lewis and Clark became more famous. They had a government and politicians hyping them. Alternatively perhaps if there were more global warming faster, Canada would have 10 times the population of the US rather than the other way around and Thompson would be famous. Or maybe Thompson justly is not famous due to his emotional attachment to the native peoples compared to Lewis and Clark’s more scientific approach. That could justifiably cause people to pay more attention to Lewis and Clark and less attention to that guy with the COEXIST bumper sticker on his horse.
Really fun reading. He writes very intelligently and clearly. Makes you feel like you are right there with him. Thank you!
Quite a story about a tamed polar bear on page 14 and 15. Amazing!
Book marked, thank you.
I love this sort of story.
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