Via a google alert which notifies me about new Cruzatte web postings, I learned that Disposessed: Uncovering the Metís has a page dedicated to the Metís members of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. The bibliography at the site links to a fascinating and disturbing letter from Thomas Jefferson to Francis Gray in which Jefferson [...]
Today marks the 201st anniversary of Pierre Cruzatte’s accident, the incident for which — fortunately for me, unfortunately for him — people best remember Monsieur Cruzatte. I had hoped to finish this blog’s statement of purpose by today. But, in the best tradition of Meriwether Lewis’s post-expedition editing travails, I haven’t even started.
The 201st anniversary of the Buttshot Bicentennial — the anniversary of Pierre Cruzatte accidentally shooting Captain Lewis in the butt — arrives on August 11. To celebrate, I’m preparing (well, to be honest, I’m thinking about preparing) a blog entry describing my purpose here. That purpose is intimately connected with Cruzatte and his endeavors.
In mulling [...]
