1805 - 2005

[corkyking]

the river was one continued sene of rappids and cascades which I readily perceived could not be encountered with our canoes, and the Clifts still retained their perpendicular structure and were from 150 to 200 feet high; in short the river appears here to have woarn a channel in the process of time through a solid rock. on my return I found the party at camp; they had butchered the buffaloe and brought in some more meat as I had directed. Goodrich had caught half a douzen very fine trout [ The cutthroat trout, Salmo clarkii after William Clark, a species new to science. Cutright (LCPN), 157–58; Lee et al., 105, 114. The fish used for comparison is the brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis] and a number of both species of the white fish. these trout [NB: caught in the falls] are from sixteen to twenty three inches in length, precisely resemble our mountain or speckled trout in form and the position of their fins, but the specks on these are of a deep black instead of the red or goald colour of those common to the U.' States. these are furnished long sharp teeth on the pallet and tongue and have generally a small dash of red on each side behind the front ventral fins; the flesh is of a pale yellowish red, or when in good order, of arose red.—

Lewis and Clark Journals - Thursday June 13th 1805.

I am going to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of one of the great adventures of all history by sharing some of their great stories with my friends and neighbors.

[love2fish]

It is amazing how much things have changed in only 200 years. We owe a lot to those guys... [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

love2fish

[bucketmouth]

After reading "Undaunted Courage" by Steven Ambrose I felt a closer connection to the Lewis & Clark Expidition. I too intend to celebrate the 200 year anniversary and teach a little about these exporers to the kids.

Last year went and saw the Lewis & Clark film presented by OMSI at the IMAX theatre. Great representation of the trek!

Both A&E and The History channel have had 1 hour segments on the expidition. I'm sure there will be more interest both with the people and with the media as the anniversary approaches.

[bassfishingnw]

Is "Undaunted Courage" by Steven Ambrose a good book to read? I remember seeing him on the PBS's "CORP of Discovery" and he was full of information. I have never read any of his stuff and was thinking of looking at the book store today for it.

I will be trying to let my 7 year old daughter a little history of these encredible people!

Thanks for the excerpt!

Jason :smile:

[Siwash]

I did a bike tour a few years back in northern ID and western MT, where we covered a bunch of the old L&C Trail over Lolo Pass and such (my bro and I brought our pack rods along; got some nice inland strain cutts--a first for me--and even a 3-4lb chinook jack on the Lochsa, some ~600 miles from the salt!). It's still an absolutely amazing trip, even by road today. Boggles the mind to imagine doing it in their day.

[Firedog]

Baassfishn, "Undaunted Courage" is an excellent book, the picture he paints of the country and what Lewis and Clark had to deal with is incredible. I would Highly recomend it. I really like Ambrose's writting, I am reading "Custer and Crazy horse" at the moment. You can also get the journals of Lewis and Clark.

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[Rubber Robin]

Yes!!!!
Read "Undaunted Courage" by Mr. Ambrose.

Talk about a fantastic adventure described in detail! Anybody that likes the outdoors will enjoy this read.

[boomer]

The best book I've read about the corps of discovery was 'Only one man died' by Eldon Chiounard. It focused on the medical aspects of the trip but dealt with the overall expedition as well. It showed how primative pre-civil war medicine was. The book revealed some new things I never knew about.

[bassfishingnw]

Thanks all!!

I often wonder humbly if I could've endured half of what those men endured. Sure would've been a memorable experience!!

Heading to the book store today at lunch :smile:

[corkyking]

I'm not as tough as those who've gone before me and I never was.

Just look at one of those huge wooden train trestles left over from the old logging days and realize that they were built by hand or the 15 to 20 mile long ditches, all dug by hand, to bring water to the monitors in the gold fields. Realize that those things were being built by our great grandfathers just 45-50 years after Lewis and Clark made their voyage of discovery.


Lewis and Clark Journals

[Pilar]

'Undaunted Courage', Steven Ambrose.

Killer book. Heavy too, it will take you a while to read it. The irony of what these guys did is amazing. They paddled and dragged boats 1500 miles upstream and wintered. Crossed the Rockies at one of the worst places imaginable and then wintered at Ft. Clatsop. So 18 months to get to the Oregon coast and they get there in November just in time for the 4 month downpour. They leave in early spring, never seeing this beautiful country in the summer.

Read the book you won't regret it. The 'Corps of Discovery' had true grit and they were working for Thomas Jefferson, one of the truly great men in American history.

[bucketmouth]

Bassfishingnw, You asked if it was a good book to read. Personally I could'nt put it down. The girl I was with at the time however, never finished reading it. I guess it depends on your interest and ones perspective about the corps of discovery to begin with.

I'm glad you're going to get the book. I think you will be glad you did.

[wetaline]

Because i have a nice commute to Hillsboro everyday - i decided to subscribe to Audible.com ... which is audible books, you can either download for MP3 or burn to Disk ... or order disks if your not savy to that technology. The most rescent book i ordered was "undaunted courage"... i'm only on chapter 5 but i'm already hooked and am already taking a greater appreciation for the development of this country. PS its 22 hours long