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You want to learn more about the original Geo-cachers? Lewis and Clark is a story that you have to know. These guys went where no American had gone before, navigating and making maps along the way. Years later it would be shown that of all the miles logged, their map was off by only 40 miles. They traveled 4,000 miles, so 1 out of every 100 miles ain't bad when you consider that they used primarily dead reckoning. I would highly recommed this book to anyone who wants to see what America started as and to hear a story told by the travelers themselves, all 40 or so of them. This is my favorite book, I am sure many of you have already read"Undaunted Courage", but if you haven't please pick it up, you will thank me for it!

 

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Well we could keep going back and back. This is interesting because it is taken from the Lewis and Clark journals. I remember in high school, learning very little about them, and I always thought it was just the 2 of them.

 

It's a great read and a real page turner!

 

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You want to learn more about the original Geo-cachers? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684811073/qid=1017844116/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_3_2/103-9656693-8950237 is a story that you have to know. These guys went where no American had gone before, navigating and making maps along the way. Years later it would be shown that of all the miles logged, their map was off by only 40 miles. They traveled 4,000 miles, so 1 out of every 100 miles ain't bad when you consider that they used primarily dead reckoning. I would highly recommed this book to anyone who wants to see what America started as and to hear a story told by the travelers themselves, all 40 or so of them. This is my favorite book, I am sure many of you have already readhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684811073/qid=1017844116/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_3_2/103-9656693-8950237, but if you haven't please pick it up, you will thank me for it!

 

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I love the Alexander Thom books on the Clark family. "Sea to Shining Sea", "the Long Knives", and a new one about the L&C expedition from the view of an Indian that made the trip with them, but I can't remember the name! icon_rolleyes.gif

 

All of Thom's books are great in my opinion!

 

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Originally posted by The KGB:

You want to learn more about the original Geo-cachers? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684811073/qid=1017844116/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_3_2/103-9656693-8950237 is a story that you have to know. These guys went where no American had gone before, navigating and making maps along the way. Years later it would be shown that of all the miles logged, their map was off by only 40 miles. They traveled 4,000 miles, so 1 out of every 100 miles ain't bad when you consider that they used primarily dead reckoning. I would highly recommed this book to anyone who wants to see what America started as and to hear a story told by the travelers themselves, all 40 or so of them. This is my favorite book, I am sure many of you have already readhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684811073/qid=1017844116/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_3_2/103-9656693-8950237, but if you haven't please pick it up, you will thank me for it!

 

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I love the Alexander Thom books on the Clark family. "Sea to Shining Sea", "the Long Knives", and a new one about the L&C expedition from the view of an Indian that made the trip with them, but I can't remember the name! icon_rolleyes.gif

 

All of Thom's books are great in my opinion!

 

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I'm currently reading the original Lewis and Clark journals. Its not simple reading since they couldn't spell worth a darn and had little clues about what they were seeing. Sometimes you have to put it down for a week or two and read a novel just to recover. But its truly just facinating stuff. Especially how some of the rivers got named. Rivers and streams are my thing.

 

I am amazed about how much game they harvested daily and had to cache away at times. I just got to the point where they crossed the continental divide...and didn't even know it!

 

"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day...

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Haven't read the book, but last summer when I was travelling across the nothern US, I spent a lot of time following their trail (not on purpose just happened to be going that way) and visited a lot of the historic sites, markers, etc and even a couple of their winter settlements. Very cool stuff, did get to read some of their journal at one out in Oregon.

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Smooch,

 

Those journals... aren't they several volumes in total? I remember reading somewhere that they were recently published.

 

And from what I remember one of them could spell better than the other. Also, much of that is due to the different way people talked and wrote at that time.

 

I'm partially interested in reading more about their journey... but the massive amount of information available is daunting.

 

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Smooch,

 

Those journals... aren't they several volumes in total? I remember reading somewhere that they were recently published.

 

And from what I remember one of them could spell better than the other. Also, much of that is due to the different way people talked and wrote at that time.

 

I'm partially interested in reading more about their journey... but the massive amount of information available is daunting.

 

Jamie


 

It is an extensive book with small print. I'm reading it between other books. In the beginning of the book is a rather long explanation about the original journals and this reprinted version. To me, this is the only Lewis and Clark book anyone needs. What I like about them is the lack of interpretation of the journals by some author. In this version, the interpretation is left up to the reader.

 

I'm at work so I don't have the reference. I'll try and remember to e-mail it to you.

 

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Ken or Kevin Burns (I forget which--anyhow, the guy who made "The Civil War" PBS series) also made a series on the Lewis and Clark expedition, for those who would like to see the movie before you read the books. 15T

 

http://www.1800goguard.com

 

I would love to see this. I've seen Ken Burns's documentaries on the "Civil War" and "Baseball". Best documentaries I've ever seen! Then again, they are two of my favorite subjects! I'll be looking for this documentary.

 

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What about Hank's From the Earth to the Moon? One of my favorite subjects and a very well done documentary, I thought... in the sense that it was presented as a recreation of the events.

 

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It was very good - I bought the DVD set. But it's not a documentary. Check out For All Mankind or Mission To MIR.

 

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A couple of years ago, I and a few friends cycled the Katy Trail, a 200+ mile trail through Missouri. Much of the trail is along the Missouri River, following the trail originally blazed by Lewis & Clark. Along the way we came across one of the storehouses used by pioneers for stashing supplies. It was built into a cliff overhang. I took the photo below as a couple of my buddies checked out the interior.

 

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Regarding the documentary...

 

You can purchase it from Barnes & Noble for as little as $23.74.

http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?ean=794054349924

 

You can also check out the 1,000 page website that PBS did for the documentary. It includes searchable journals, timelines, etc. I'm going to have to study this a little more...

 

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark

 

Great Stuff! Thanks

 

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The video, Journey on the Corps of Discovery" is very well done. Someone else mentioned the amount of food they had to harvest daioly, I think they each consumed 9 ppounds of meat a day. Imagine that 40 people eating that much food, because they were burning so many calories. The food was so plentiful (for a large part of the trip until winter) I think he said at one point that the buffalo must have numbered 10,000 there were more than the eye could see, and deer were absolutely everywhere, it was their Garden of Eden...

 

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