How you can make a journey into the uncharted west and only lose 1 member of your expedition to illness before you even leave is beyond me but the Lewis and Clark expedition manged it.
by Salty_Strain3313
How you can make a journey into the uncharted west and only lose 1 member of your expedition to illness before you even leave is beyond me but the Lewis and Clark expedition manged it.
by Salty_Strain3313
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During the expedition Lewis and Clark encountered a Grizzly bear which took 10 musket balls to kill the bear which it died 20 minutes later. They later describe it as quite hard to kill
Remarkable voyage!
They only survived because of the generosity of a number of indigenous nations, such as the Chinook nation, which still doesn’t have federal recognition and was recently denied recognition by the Supreme Court. But hey we can name weapons of war after them.
I fucking love real epics. A journey into the unknown, miraculously surviving trials and odds, returning with the mission accomplished. AND ITS FUCKING HISTORY!!! RAAAAAAAAAH!
Making a lot of friends along the way I imagine was one way
Dogy 😀
They also got rid of some guy who was an asshole I think.
Jefferson also asked Lewis and Clark to keep an eye out for mammoths. He was an amateur palaeontologist who didn’t believe in extinction as a concept because God wouldn’t allow a species to totally die. I’m sure his follow-up question in the meme would be “Did you see any mammoths?!”
And only a decade after Alexander Mackenzie did it
It was all the mercury. Made them too crazy to kill. You can still locate their campsites by mercury content.
Sakakawea was the GOAT.