Undaunted Courage, By Stephen E, Ambrose.
This is about the Lewis and Clark, hike, trip, adventure, and exploring or expedition.
I learn that the President Jefferson, had plan the trip out completely.
Lewis was the President's person secretary for some time and the President had been training Lewis for this trip, as He lived in the President home for over a year.
Lewis, also was sent off for 6 months to learn from experts in the fields of plant and animals, so as to be able to write down the description correctly.
Also, another expert in star observation, to learn to use a sexton as there was no know maps of the country that they would be crossing, this information would be helpful in drawing up the new maps.
As for the trip is self:
Jefferson was looking for a short cut to the Pacific ocean by a water way, it did not happen.
They would kill 10 elk, deer or buffalo a day for food.
They ate mostly meat, and at one point, they would consume 9 pounds of meat per man a day.
There favorite meat was dog meat, if the Indian's would sell it to them.
The bear was the hardest animal to kill.
One bear that they did kill, four men with 6 guns, four of the men shot four shots at the bear, 3 shot damage the bears lungs and chest, the forth shot hit the shoulder, the bear started chasing them, the next to guns shot and broke the bears shoulder this time, the bear still was coming after them two men went up a tree and the other two jump into the river, the bear jumped into the river to get the men.
A man in a boat shot one more shot into the bears head, and killed it.
When the bear was pulled out of the water, the bear had 8 holes in it, before its was killed.
Sacagawea, the only women in the group was along to help talk to the Shoshone Indians, so that there could get horses. She did have a baby on the trip, at age 16.
She was the youngest person in the group, until the baby was born.
She had become the property of her husband, because she had be won in a card game and make to be his wife, this was before the trip.
So to translate from Indian to English.
So heres how it worked.
Shoshone would talk to Sacagawea, and than,
Sacagawea, would talk to here husband in French,
Than He would talk to a French men,
And the French men would turn it into English,
So Lewis could understand what was said.
I could go on and on about thing like this, but will not.
This is like reading someones journal, so it was a bit slow at times, will a lot of the times.
2 comments:
9 pounds of meat a day??? Wow. Z and I read a book by Ambrose for one of our International Politics classes at BYU...I can't remember the name of it, but it was very interesting and he explained things in a nice and forth-coming way. Though, it did move a bit slowly at times, too! I can't imagine setting off on a journey like Lewis and Clark's, what an adventure!
If I have to read history I like Steven Ambrose usually. He can be a little slow but has a good way of describing and putting together the past. I love that story about Lewis and Clark and the Bear, I read it somewhere else before... always makes me think of how huge that bear must have been. Back then they weren't over hunted so I'm sure they were a lot bigger, but it took 8 large caliber muskett balls to finally take it down. Huge monster. The book Fiona and I read was good too, on U.S. History called Rise to Globalism.
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