Without naming the city you are from, what is it famous for?
"Bathtub racing capital city of the world" and a chocolate delicacy popular throughout Canada.
--Michael D. Clarke
The point from which the Lewis & Clark expedition embarked.
shareWow, I should remember this...St.Louis?
I'm going to be ashamed if I forgot, I read a book about this some years ago!
You are correct, sir.
I'm going through Bruce Catton's two volume history of Grant's command during the Civil war - its interesting how much was going on in Missouri, Kentucky & Tennessee - run out of, initially, the St. Louis office, intitially by Gen. Halleck, Grant's superior & early foe - Grant's in-laws lived just south of the city.
St. Louis, these days, is a 2d-rate city, but it has a great history.
Sacajawea's son went to my HS, the oldest west of the Mississippi.
I need to reread that Lewis and Clark stuff again, it's been years. That was a tough scouting party but they'd likely gotten lost or killed without teenaged Sacajawea!
It could be a really good epic historical movie, they fought some indians over horses, had to hand build forts in the forest for winter survival, braved rapids in rickety boats and had to flee a gigantic bear when the thing rampaged on them.
Pretty EPIC stuff!
That gang makes us all look like wimps.
You are so right. The Pacific Indians kept them alive on salmon (which the boys didn't much care for). Lewis wrote his account, def. worth reading - he & Clark were both quite extraordinary fellows - I think one man died of fever, and that was the extent of the casualties for the whole momentous, epic, titanic voyage of discovery. They laid the whip down early, got the men headed straight, the boils turned into calluses, they chose their party well. I think one man had been seditious, was denied the expedition medal upon completion.
It shewed also that, however warlike the various nations might have been, they were tolerant enough to let a gaggle of white men travel relatively (though not completely, of course) unmolested across half the continent. I'm sure they were as fascinated by such a sight as any of us would be such a comparable sight, in our own existences.