Speaking of Lewis & Clark, et al., here’s a bovine take on one of the ongoing expedition-related controversies (i.e. what’s Janey’s real name?): Sacowgewea. Moo.
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Love for NoDak
Sunday, January 27, 2008
During the Lewis & Clark bicentennial, I visited just about every state along the Lewis & Clark trail, and North Dakota was easily my favorite. The photo to the right shows my daughter with a friend on the banks of the Missouri River in Washburn, North Dakota.
The folks at National Geographic say that their article, [...]
Trembling or Trailblazing?
Friday, November 2, 2007
“Downtown statue draws protesters” — some folks don’t like the statue of Sacagawea in Charlottesville, Virginia (via my friend Kira Gale and her newsletter at Lewis and Clark Road Trips):
The protesters complained that the statue depicts explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark looking into the distance as their guide, Sacagawea, crouches in a subordinate position [...]
Cruzatte’s Favorites
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
In a previous post, I began to put together a list of the best music I found while researching Pierre Cruzatte and Lewis & Clark. Here’s most of the rest of that list, starting with what’s available through iTunes (because I just learned that you can publish iMixes, so I have to give it a [...]
A Brief Essay Concerning Meriwether Lewis’s Keister
Monday, October 15, 2007
Bottom words which start with “A”
(Like “aft”) seem rather sparse.
Yet sit your ass beside the Thames
By Jove, it’s now an arse.
The denouement of my Pierre Cruzatte program arrives when Cruzatte finally reenacts the accident in which he shoots Captain Lewis in the butt. I struggled for a long time to find the best word for [...]
We commenced watching, &c.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
I had intended to officially launch this blog yesterday, on the 201st anniversary of Captain William Clark’s “We commenced wrighting” journal entry. But, in the spirit of what’s a sort of procrastination diary, I didn’t make the deadline. I was too busy reading Household Gods, watching the end of “Journeyman,” and not writing my California [...]
Jefferson Does the Math
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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 [...]
Pomp in Ecuador
Sunday, September 2, 2007
I learned from Kira Gale of Lewis and Clark Road Trips that the people of Ecuador love the Sacagawea dollar, so much so that counterfeiters have gotten involved. For more, see this article which Gale links to in her newsletter.
I love the Sacagawea dollars too — the only US currency with the image of a [...]