Lewis and clark corps of discovery stop at fort massac

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Shove or toss sticks at the offender? Or did they simply lie there, wide awake and Ponder (as that other great American adventurer Huckleberry Finn would have) theДЄge-old conundrum, the 'curiosest thing in the world': why is the snorer, the personД¬losest to the sound, the only one left undisturbed by his snoring? Did they kick or Hills, and alarmed the wild beasts of the Plains? Did their non-snoring campmates

#Lewis and clark corps of discovery stop at fort massac series

Was it a series of erratically erupting snorts and rasps, perhaps even a grand anvilД¬horus of a dozen or more men that reverberated out of the tents, echoed over the That encouraged the others to sleep, like the croaking of frogs on a riverbank? Or After only one night of camping together, I said, we already knew who snoredДЄnd who didn't-and we would be pitching our tents accordingly for the remainderДid any members of the Lewis and Clark expedition snore? If so, which ones? Was it a gentle sawing sound The next morning I told Steve he could add another item of familiarity to his So crucial to the success of any expedition.Д®veryone around the campfire nodded in agreement, then headed for their sleepingД«ags. Single, organic unit-is the natural byproduct of the intimate bond of teamwork Knowledge about everyone else's personal habits and strengths-a simultaneousДЄcknowledgment of individuality within a group that itself has begun to act as a Other task they even knew who liked salt on his meat and who didn't. Other's footsteps they knew who was best at hunting, at starting a fire, or at any It's a point he had eloquently made three yearsД®arlier in the documentary film Ken Burns and I produced for public television: howДЄfter so many days together in their struggle to cross the continent, members of theД¬orps of Discovery eventually became so close to one another that they could hear aД¬ough in the night and know who it was they could recognize the sound of each That evening, after Steve and I took turns reading aloud from the journals, he spokeДЇor a few minutes about teamwork. Of Discovery, we were absolutely not going to run out of Some detail, we also had made sure of another important difference: unlike the Corps Having studied the history of the expedition in Unlike the Corps ofДiscovery, we felt no concerns about grizzly bears (they disappeared from the river aД¬entury ago), getting lost (we had precise maps and an experienced outfitter), orДЇinding horses when the canoe portion of our journey ended (a chartered bus was hired In and day out against the Missouri's relentless current. People our age), but nothing we did could be compared to dragging bulky dugouts day Paddled downstream to our camp (which was tiring enough for Men under the command of Lewis and Clark (along with one teenaged Indian woman and her infant son). On average our group's members were about thirty years older than the young Our geographical locationвЂ“most of the similarities between the two expeditionsД®nded. There were about thirty of us in the group, roughly the same numberДЄs in the original Corps of Discovery. The campfire and gazed at the silent cliffs reflected in the river, tinged pink by Nearly two centuries later we found the enchantment equally palpable as we sat around Seemed as if those seens of visionary inchantment would never have an end.' One of his most lyrical journal passages about the wondrous landscape he and his men Majestic White Cliffs of north-central Montana, close to the exact spot where, or 31

Pleasant day of paddling canoes on the Missouri River, we camped amid the eerie and Some of the most scenic stretches of the Lewis and Clark Trail. DAYTON DUNCAN Introduction to the Bison Books EditionДЄ few years ago I was helping my friend Stephen Ambrose lead a group of people along