From then on, any Lewis and Clark site had to be seriously out of the way from me to not attempt a visit. I picked up his book, `Out West', a chronicle of his attempt to retrace some of the Lewis and Clark Trail (in a VW bus) at a yard sale and acquired the bug. Actually, I have Dayton Duncan to blame for my infection. More than a few people now living would be tempted to sell their souls for the chance to jump back to 1804 and push off up the Missouri River with the Corps. The journey of the Corps of Discovery, as the expedition was entitled, occupies the emotional center of the history of the West in the same way that the Civil War occupies the specific history of the South. If you doubt me, watch writer/commenter Dayton Duncan fight back tears as he recounts Meriwether Lewis' heartbreaking demise in Ken Burns' PBS special on Lewis and Clark. In fact, it's still there although it doesn't itch quite as much as it once did. If you have a love of history and the wilderness, and adhere to a certain code, the Lewis and Clark saga can get way under your skin.
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I got it as a free loan from my local library, maybe you can too!! Plus, one of the narrators is my old college friend Daniel von Bargen. The city of St Louis built a high arch in commemoration of the journey, and it is called "The Jefferson Expansion Memorial." I saw the DVD, and it is a really fine one. Everyone should see it, for the historical significance of the journey. When you fly west over the USA during a clear day, and can see the wide expanse of mountains, you can begin to understand what an ordeal it was for them to cross over to what we now call the Columbia River. Lewis and Clark, and the men that went with them, were true explorers. Put your political leanings aside, this film does not judge whether the USA, Spain, and France *should* have been able to grab and trade the native lands occupied for centuries by various Native American tribes. Ken Burns' film is a landmark study of the 1804 through 1806 Lewis and Clark expedition, starting in St Louis, and returning there two years later, having found a route to the Pacific Ocean.
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