The Lewis and Clark Expedition: How the USA Discovered Its Eventual Western Borders
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You have to see turner and hooch. Great movie! One of the classics. It's one of Tom Hanks first movies. About a police officer adopting a rather rambunctious junkyard dog it's more intense than it sounds
Would you do a video on the Mason-Dixon line? Was an amazing feat for the time, maybe on this channel or side projects. Keep up the good work!
Yes Simon your country is like that....Like father like son am I right?😂😂😂🤣🤣
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These dudes were made of steel. Their tour of the US wasn't a vacation, more comparable to Astronauts than surveyors.
And don’t forget that their journey was upriver... that means against the current.
Little brothers couldn't do anything without someone holding their hands the entire way... more like children with cardboard boxes pretending to be astronauts and marveling at the supermarket
Not even. They went nowhere without the guidance of Sacoguia, while she was pregnant giving birth and finally while raising her child. Now she was made of solid steel.
@@Hollylivengood holy shit, is it impossible to give someone credit without talking about how women and POCs did a better job? Just bc she was there doesn't take away from how amazing their feat was. Its ok to give credit where credit is due.
@@michaelhowell2326 nope, their inferiority complex induced temper tantrums will never stop.
I live 15 minutes from the only marker that the expedition left. A carving in a small butte off the Yellowstone river that reads W Clark July 25 1806.
Ahoy fellow Billings-ite
Well........Dont just say that....go visit it and tell us all about it you selfish bastard. ; )
@@DIGITAL7Media that's the funny thing. I have many times it kinda dominates the history books.
I live about 30 mjns from where they started.
“Undaunted Courage” is a great book about the expedition and it was hard to put down until I finished it
Talk about rugged individualism!
These men also dealt with hordes of mosquitoes, grizzly bears were common in the continent as well as wolves.
They hunted every day and the Indian men who were with them ate 12 lbs of meat daily. On one such trip for deer a grizzly bear charged after the men and chased Lewis into a river where he lost his gun. He was so upset over this that he took off with another hunting party just to kill that bear. A charging grizzly bear has got to be one of the most horrific experiences........there were no snowflakes amongst this group
read "out west" by dayton duncan. it's a more lighthearted take on the undaunted courage story.
Glad someone mentioned this, I've listened to it on tape countless times on my way to canoe trips on the Missouri river and could never get enough of the story!
I most strongly recommend this book.
I loved Undaunted Courage. The Lewis and Clark Expedition has always fascinated me.
Don't worry I'm from Idaho and we prefer people not knowing where we are
When he said that I thought "I couldn't find any English Counties on a map, so fair enough."
I think it worked.
Idaho? What's that? 🤔
I have a friend... from Alabama who once drove to Wyoming and Idaho just to have a look around.
Don't worry... there's not much danger of that happening.
3:20 - Chapter 1 - Background
4:25 - Chapter 2 - The purpose
6:15 - Chapter 3 - Lewis & clark
7:15 - Chapter 4 - Preparations
10:05 - Chapter 5 - The expeditions begins
11:55 - Chapter 6 - Winter at fort mandan
13:45 - Chapter 7 - Onward
15:30 - Chapter 8 - Winter at fort clatsop
16:05 - Chapter 9 - The return
17:15 - Chapter 10 - After the expedition
@@deadzio so?
I’ll admit, you had me scared. You talked conflict, and I thought Raid Shadow Legends finally paid you enough to become a sponsor for you.
Its pretty much as bad as Raid Shadow Legends.... there again so is CrossOut and Simon quite happily gets sponsored by that.
I don't think he realises that the devs literally gave him £1000s worth of stuff on his account that most players will never see
without spending that much money or literally 1000s of hours of gameplay (per item).
When we moved from Maryland to Washington State in February it gave me a real sense of how beautiful things are with all our modern tech. It was probably amazing and terrifying to be on horse and carriage back when the frontier was so unknown. We did in 4 days what took them years. Mad respect for anyone back then for setting off into the unknown.
Yes Simon..we all watched "Almost Heroes" dont forget to mention them and their efforts...
NOW GET IN THE BOAT!!!!!!
Chris Farley as Hunt Bartholomew
@@Manuel-gu9ls i love chris farley...such a great comedic genius...so simple and yet so funny...
He just couldn’t quit eating those eggs! 😂
@@facina3390 (cracking the egg) all is needed is a shell
@@facina3390 that scene and the one where he tries to read is my top funniest of all time.
I"m from St. Louis, lived there 30 years, often visited St. Charles as well. There are a lot of monuments and trail markers that show you where they traveled, it's amazing to stand at the same place they did so many years before and imagine what it was like seeing the great Mississippi and Missouri river confluence. It's beautiful if you've never been, you should go. It's an underappreciated landmark. A little way up the Missouri river you will find Hanibal, MO, the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain. A lot of history in that area.
Mapping their route - It is relatively easy to determine how far North and South they traveled by sighting Polaris. But they didn't know how far East and West they traveled until two years after the trip was over. That was determined by astronomers reviewing detailed sightings taken of Jupiter's 4 moons with their telescope. They also did medical examinations of the Indian tribes to try to determine what diseases they had before encountering Europeans. It was an amazing scientific journey with numerous discoveries.
Gotta disagree a bit they had a very good idea of how far west and east they had traveled. They used the method of dead reckoning. If u know ur average speed and time traveled u can very accurately determine distance.
i live 10 miles from where lewis and clark camped when they first saw the pacific ocean. the expedition is celebrated here in WA
And in Oregon my dude.... in the amusement park in Portland. there was a super old Lewis and Clark ride that showed kids what they did. It was really old so it got shit down... but I have very vivid memories of it
West coast is the best coast
I wish you could post pictures in the comments on youtube I would like to see what that looks like
@@jonathanperry8331 due to some pretty impressive logging, most of what they would have saw is all dunes now, and thanks to an off shore jetty system there is more wetland than beach, up where i am anyway.
I do love living here
The Lois & Clark TV series was a play on Lewis & Clark.
One of the most amazing feats was their mapping along the way where they would estimate the distance of a landmark ahead of them. When all was said and done, their estimate was off by about 4 miles of the 4000 or so miles.
I’ve ridden (on my motorcycle) Hiway 12 over the Lolo Pass from Montana to Lewiston, Idaho and it is truly one of the most beautiful roads anywhere.
That's truly a motorcycle road. Hugs the river the whole time
It was gorgeous in the snow yesterday. In a pickup truck. With a heater. :)
I rode the Lolo Trail (Lolo Motorway) which is the dirt trail L&C traveled. Was a blast until we were turned back short of Pierce by a forest fire.
They say it “sho-sho-nee.” 90% of the Native Americans did unfortunately perish but mostly by disease.
Grew up near Moscow, Idaho, so quite familiar with Highway 12 over Lolo. I did a coast-to-coast MC trip solo, in the fall of '91. Thought I could count on ideal weather the entire way and was a little shocked, reading the Lewis & Clark info sign at the Continental Divide... The sign told the story of L & C nearly getting snowbound on their return journey up on the pass. Traveling in the same time of year as I was. It doesn't snow in September, does it???
Might suggest then the Westward Expansion Memorial - The Saint Louis Arch, as another Mega Project.
As someone who lives near where sergeant floyd was buried it’s always interesting to hear other people learning about the expedition.
I've always been amazed at how they travel for 2 1/2 years through uncharted territory and only had one fatality. The town of Sargent Bluff and Floyd county, both in Iowa, are named after him.
If you like history, you should take time to read about Toussaint Charbonneau, and the many porters and guides, and their wives, who went along with Lewis and Clark. They had already made the trip often, it just happened that Lewis and Clark were mapping it, but these guys had been over it many times, they were the insignificant people who did the work, you know? I think Charbonneau was violent and had other bad traits, but he had some amazing ones also, and it's a good read. Of course, anything about Sacogawia I'll always follow.
US history seems to forget that the french/metis coureur de bois that guided that expedition had been there before. Alex Mackenzie had crossed the continent and explored the high arctic 12 years before their over burdened expedition.
@@stevenmooney2197 Thank you. My point exactly.
03:06 William Clark's most famous quote: "Why does that S.O.B. Lewis always get to go first?"
😅 😂 🤣
Yes, that quote is cast in bronze at Lewis & Clark College in Portland
If it makes you feel better, I live 5 minutes from where Lewis and Clark started their expedition and I didn't even know too much about it other than the brief overview in school textbooks.
I'm from far far from there and learned the whole trip. Maybe it's because I'm from the rural south that enjoy real history lessons. As opposed to you're evil for being born here.
Now that you have discovered where Idaho is on the map, you might be interested to know that the original capital of the state was Lewiston which is just across the river from a town in Washington state called Clarkston. Any guesses where the names of these cities came from? :)
Nah...I don't read history I'm a socialist.
I have my suspicions
I bet it was something to do with my cheating ex wife getting tag teamed by Lewis and Clark from accounting at the firm she's secretarying at
There’s also a lewistown in Montana
@@joshuabyram7485 did they lke carve theeir names on trees?
The saddest part I ever learned was that after one of them died, the dog died of a broken heart. It sat on the grave of its owner and basiclly starved and dehydrated itself to death intentionally............we don't deserve dogs😢❤
A prayer I say: "Lord, help me become the man my dog thinks I am."
Considering the amount of people who mistreat dogs, I'd say they don't deserve us either (in a different way though)
😭 Poor dog
Howard Carter's Red Setter howled in despair of hearing of his master's death and died of grief. That was in London. He died in Egypt.
They carried some pretty amazing gear as well, including a .46 caliber Girardoni air rifle that could fire 30 rounds before recharging and could bring down a buffalo.
With ome shot or 30? (%
Saying 95% of the possible population of 20 million Native Americans died after Europeans arrived in the Americas is a very misleading thing to say in this video. First, that 20 million number is a very high estimate of the population of Native Americans. The ranges of the population on Native Americans in both North and South America range from 2-7 million in most estimates with some estimates going up as high as 18 million but those being based off less genuine statistical information. The second major issue is that population is the population of both North and South America combined. The territory that made up the US and later Canada was by far the least populated land Native Americans lived in (because it was cold). Of the total population of Native Americans from North and South America less then 5% of their total population lived North of Mexico. And then for the important bit, the deaths of the Native Americans. Almost all Native Americans were not killed directly by Europeans or later Americans. The over whelming majority of them died from diseases brought to the Americas that the Natives had no immunity for. The same thing could have happened in the opposite direction if Native Americans had fought off diseases that people from the Old World had never encountered before. But because the Old World was much more populated and people lived much closer together it led to the people of the Old World encountering much more diseases then Native Americans did. And then of the remaining small population of Native Americans living in the US after we have made clear the population of the Natives in the US was already small and the majority overwhelmingly died of diseases we come to what happened to the rest off them. Of those remaining they either continued to live in the US, were moved to another location within the US or were killed in a small war/raid fight. Because when you actually go back and look at the fights between the US government and civilians against Native Americans you will find that those conflicts can hardly be called wars in most cases. In most cases the conflict involves a raid by the Native Americans on some US settlement and then a counter attack by the people who were attacked. In fact, if you look at the conflicts between Native Americans and the US government and civilians you will find that almost every single conflict begins with the Natives resorting to violence first. So I always find it annoying when people think the Native Americans were treated any different then people around the world were. The Natives already had slavery and war before Europeans arrived and were much more prone to violence then the Europeans who were arriving in the Americas in almost every tribes case. The wars between the Native Americans taking territory from each other and making the loser their slaves as well as torturing the losers of the war are very horrific when talked about in detail. Many of the Native American tribes resorted to this level of warfare, slave taking and torturing against the Europeans who arrived in the Americas as well but they soon found out they were not of equal strength when it came to warfare. Thus losing the lands they had taken from each other for hundreds of years already.
Shhh you are upsetting the left's/marxists/sjw's narrative to hate America and racism towards caucasians and Christians.
Great Job Everyone! I'm American. Came from that middle bit in the US. Knew about the Lewis and Clark thing, probably studied it in grade school, but every Exhibition of this Expedition would prompt me to nod off. I love ephemera! Transatlantic cable! Nicola Tesla! Japanese Balloon bombs! Lewis and Clark....zzzzz.
But thank you finally for putting some blood in the story. Well done! One tiny note: Shoshone: sho-sho-knee
To use your favorite word Simon, Lewis ‘allegedly’ committed suicide. There’s a story there. Long story short, many people think he was murdered.
"Many" people also think the Earth is flat. Doesn't make it so.
@@fredlougee2807except the shape of the earth is a matter of objective proof. Meriwether Lewis died under disputed circumstances in a very isolated part of the country long before forensics existed, let alone modern forensic technology we take for granted.
@@fredlougee2807 I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything but the details and circumstances surrounding his death are intriguing. Don't be afraid of a little knowledge or embarassed someone is smarter than you, educate yourself on the topic or ignore commenting out of ignorance--but in any case stop being a dick.
But Clark was Superman's adopted maternal grandfather.
Sounds like a job for The Casual Criminalist!
Well done! I learned more from this video than I did in my history classes in school. What I learned basically was, Lewis and Clark went West and saw the Pacific Ocean. As for Sacajawea, all I learned about her was that she was their guide.
90% of the American Indian population was wiped out from Smallpox in the 1500s. What remained were mainly smaller nomadic tribes, but the city-states that traded with the Aztecs were gone. By the time the U.S. came to be, the vast American Indian population had essentially been gone for centuries.
I think the Internet deserves as Megaproject video. How it started and progressed over the years to how it is now maybe?
@@multirob137 recently finished watching the whole internet, exhausting. Simon is only thing worth watching.
Megaproject: Simon Whistler learns where all 50 states are on a map.
The US was fighting internally over slavery before we even gained our independence from England. Slavery was abolished in every Northern US state 3 years before England.
Because our country was founded as to not have a powerful centralized government, it was never supposed to be possible for the federal government to tell a state what to do.
The Republican party was formed after the existing political parties started to split over the subject of slavery, Democrats were pro-slavery, Republicans were the anti-slavery party, so much so, that when Abraham Lincoln was elected president states in the South immediately started seceding from the Union.
We literally went to war, and killed each other over slavery, and yet people still talk shit, even though slavery was common practice all the way back to ancient Greece.
Our northern states had it figured out years before England.
Look up Thomas Jefferson's deleted passage of the Declaration of Independence to see we were fighting about slavery before we even gained our independence.
You bring up a VERY good point. Some people today want to act like the US was an evil racist empire that kept slaves just because we thought it was fun. There's a book called "Founding America," full of the Founders original documents, essays, etc. Americans were arguing to end slavery as far back as 1720, but english trade companies and laws made it impossible for them to turn away new shipments of slaves. And most states governors, still very English at the time, had no interest in abolishing it.
So by 1776, the english had made the US *so dependent* on slavery that we couldnt get rid of it without slitting our own throats and certainly couldnt get rid of it going into a revolution, so the South pressured Jefferson to remove the clause condemning the King for slavery. Then there was a little thing called the War of 1812. Wars are expensive, and a reminder that England was still an existential threat meant that the fledgling US was *really* unwilling to risk upending half the countrys economy by trying something new. The fear was if they abolished slavery, and the souths economy took a few years to figure itself out, what if england invaded again during that period of weakness? The US would be screwed.
Basically, England laid the seeds of the American Civil War way back in the 17th century, and then waged a war against us at the only point in our history where we possibly could have *peacefully* abolished it.
Thanks England.
@@bobw1678 very well put.
I'm just sick and tired of people who refuse to educate themselves about history, talking about history.
Of course a lot of this is not the individuals fault, public education is a great disservice to the truth.
The legality of slavery in England itself was questioned by Sir John Holt (Lord Chief Justice of England) in 1706 and finally declared illegal in England and Wales in the case of Somersett vs Stuart in 1772. The case of Joseph Knight in 1778 did the same for Scotland. The problem was this had no legal weight in the various British colonies. It took decades of increasing public pressure and lots of yelling and screaming in Parliament to make it illegal in the Empire followed by a century of trying to eradicate it. With what result? Today there are 40 million people who are enslaved in one form or another in spite of efforts by governments and NGOs to eliminate it.Try as we might to end it it keeps happening.
I had to smile the photo you have at 12 minute mark, when mentioning the Rocky Mountains, is of Moraine Lake in Alberta, Canada not along the path of the expedition.
I live in Lewis and Clark County, drink beer from Lewis and Clark Brewery, had bison jerky with lunch, fish at the Gates of the Mountains, and live in sight of the Sleeping Giant, I love it here!
I've always been a history nut and I was telling my girlfriend about this expedition when we took our first trip "Out West" last summer. As we stood looking at Mt. Rushmore, I said "Imagine what Lewis and Clark must have thought when they saw this."
Her: "*long pause.....Huh?"
Me: "Yeah, when they got home they went to ole Tom Jefferson and said, "Mr. President, you won't believe it, but there's a mountain out there with your face carved into it....along with George Washington....and two weird looking guys that we've never seen before...Its a helluva thing, sir!"
This is how history nerds amuse themselves.
Hey Canada! Help a fellow canadian broaden the worlds knowledge of Canada and it's people! The Rideau Canal and river system for mega/side projects and Francis Pegahmagabow for biographics! Peggy is the most skilled sniper of the Great War!
I'm Canadian. He's done the sniper elsewhere and Rideau Canal isn't a megaproject lol or a side one. It's not that big. Only goes from Ottawa to Kingston. Isn't very wide either.
@@terryarmbruster7986 The Welland Canal would be better
Stay over at The History Guy where you belong
I'm not Canadian but I'd be interested in that.
How about the Saint Lawrance Seaway in general. That was a huge project
"Lewis & Clark, two names that sound odd w/o the other, like Lois & Clark..." 🤣 Simon, you crack me up...
Maybe the silk road for a megaproject?
That would be awesome
Wasn’t really a ‘project’ as such, it was a series of passageways used by traders
I'd like this.
@@Vypyr00 It’d be more of a geographics video
"Blanket Diplomacy with every tribe" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The longest bridge in the world would be a good mega project. It connects New Orleans to the North shore, the lake Pontchartrain Causeway.
8:05 Hahaha! “Warmly welcomed” is the definition of “putting it lightly.” That dude was banging like a screen door in a hurricane. I’m surprised he had the endurance to keep up with the group. Lucky bastard.
He was heap big chief to the ladies. They wanted his babies.
Check out the nistory of the BGrifuna.
The Trail of Tears would be a good one to do here or on geographics.
Good one. Say, I didn't know that not every Cherokee and Creek had to leave, they had to give up their land rights. But so much of their identity ws attached to serving their land - they believed, not that people could own land but that the land owned the people and we are obliged to serve our little spot of land - they were told they would be moved to another piece of land where they could continue on. But some stayed. I had met some here where I live who are third generation teachers, because Cherokees valued education more than the whites did at the time, they often were the only educated people in the town, and were given land to stay on so they would stay. I've met one at least, and his extended family , who have a reunion every year to celebrate keeping their little family plot all these years because of their skills. All of them are math geeks. It would be great to see a piece on some of the native efforts like that.
Yes. This channel is perfect for it. Simon doesn't care about politics he's gonna tell the truth, regardless of how you feel.
it would be better suited to Megaprojects as it lasted many years, setting precedent for the raping, murdering and pillaging of the lands and the culture and the native peoples
Clark was a master of the dead reckoning method for determining location. They were only off by 40 miles over an 8000 mile journey. In the early 1800.
Most people can't even get to a Costco without a voice activated GPS nowadays.
That's because there minds are not in there cars when there driving.
@@nathanj3114 Quite a trick--Getting "their" and "they're" wrong three times in one sentence.
I think you should make a video about the Suez canal to go with the current events.
ruclips.net/video/XDX1py_tbYE/видео.html hes done one already
Nah he needs to wait till they get the ship out of the canal then do a sideprojects video on the massive effort it’s going to take them lol
@@coreyelder-edwards2335 The ship is already out and being checked at the great bitter lake but i agree with you
It is on business blaze his other channel
@@dalemartin8475 its on geographics not business blaze
I recall a story I heard about a member of the expedition getting drunk and lost in the night. When he finally made his way back to camp he went on about this "nonsense" he found while intoxicated.
How the ground bubbled, water shot into the sky and the smell of sulfer. He was dismissed as having a black out dream. It was later discovered to be part of Yellowstone.
Not sure if it's true or not but it's a great little story.
I wouldn't be surprised lol. Some of the wildlife seemed pretty crazy to east-coasters too. Like prairie dogs, wtf?
I’m sure Montanans prefer most people not knowing where it is. It keeps the riff-raff out.
That’s a fact!
Too late, MT has been found.
15:49 "Cold and damp" - Welcome to the Pacific Northwest temperate rain forest. Lewis and Clark complained about the weather a lot in their journals, IIRC.
I've spent a lot of time in Wyoming and Montana. Saw Popmeys pillars on The Yellowstone, used to fish right near by and did a lot of turkey hunting on govt land nearby. Truly mind blowing they did what they did, when they did. True men.
I'm from St. Charles, Missouri, where the corps started their journey. My dad and I used to be in a reinactment group that had a full sized keel boat and cannon for the reinactments. The cannon was stored in our garage 😂
Bet your neighbors didn't give you much trouble 😅
For those whom had seen me commenting here a lot, yes I had not been successful. But I'll add another mega project suggestion to the list Benban Solar Park, Aswan High Dam, Bar Lev Line and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
The story of the expeditions first negotiations with the Shoshone involved the coincidence of one of the Shoshone present actually being Sacagawea's brother Cameahwait who she had not seen since being kidnapped by Hidatsas (where her French husband met her). This made the necessary acquisition of horses much easier.
The saddest part of this story was the Mandan. They were immediate and constant allies of the US. The Mandan village had a population of 15,000. It was one of the largest cities in North America at the time. The Lakota had recently invaded from Minnesota and had driven out the Cheyenne and were putting pressure on the Mandan, and all were under the thumb of the Blackfeet, so all but the Lakota and the Blackfeet welcomed the alliance with the strong new nation. When smallpox hit the Mandan it all but destroyed them. They couldn't flee their city because they were at war with the Lakota and Hidatsa. When their plague had ended, there were just a few and they were taken in by the Hidatsa. My third grade teacher, Sister Mary Alice's grandmother was one of the last full blooded Mandan Indians. Oh, the stories I heard from my favorite teacher ever.
Correction: The lofty ideals of "Every man is created equal" was in the Declaration of Independence and not the U.S. Constitution. The Declaration of Independence was a statement of the principles behind breaking away from England, principles we couldn't abide by immediately due to some of the colonies wanting to keep slavery. The U.S. Constitution, by contrast, is a legal document that didn't immediately enshrine into law the principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence. It took over 100 years to sync the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution with each other.
My Mama told me, no matter what they tell you at school. It was American British people who invented the Alphabet and Government and even Democracy. A matter of fact. All the Educational Resources all comes from American British people. My Mama was born in Britain and she's really really smart, she can read the Alphabet.
Now you know where Idaho is!.. and even better, where Napoleon Dynamite was filmed. Gosh!
Fun fact - The University of Idaho (in Moscow, ID, of all places) has been a pioneer of collegiate distant learning. Back in the day, they recorded courses and shipped VHS tapes to the students every week (with a slight processing delay time).
What the hell? No Mention of Seaman!!? The most amazing dog ever!?
I really hope you made this video so you can plug it in the upcoming one about the Gateway Arch and National Park in downtown St Louis. It’s literally the tallest monument in the United States made in honor of this very event! Please cover this topic, I’m sure you’ll be interested. :)
I live across the street from Clark's plantation, Locust Grove, in Louisville. Love this story.
Fun fact: the Expedition took very little gunpowder with them...they used it as a trade-good rather than to load their rifles.
They used a recent innovation, air-rifles, to hunt and impress local warriors.
A fully charged rifle could fire 6 shots in rapid succession at full power, about another dozen or so at lesser force.
Detachable air-storage cylinders doubled as the rifles' shoulder-stock.
It took about 20 minutes of hard work to pump up a cylinder...you kept charged spares handy.
I built-in magazine/loader held 15-20 lead balls, depending on caliber.
No smoke, fairly quiet, and capable of firing three lethal shots in five seconds, they were 'magic guns' to people accustomed to the smoke and thunder of muskets.
They were made by Girardoni.
I'm sure Simon were in charge back then all the encounters would be perfectly peaceful. It's so easy to sit on the comfy soap box in the future and judge the past.
don't feel bad, many Americans would have a hard time finding Idaho, sadly
If you have ever been to Idaho you would realize there is not that much to find 😉
Fun side fact: modern archeologists are able to pinpoint individual campsites used by the expedition! Due to their diets not containing much fiber, they were outfitted with "thunderclappers;" a stool softening pill that contained a huge amount of mercury. There was so much mercury being consumed and passed that their nightly latrine sites are easily detectable today.
Great video! I would like to suggest to make a video about the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
If your ever in Montana visit the Lewis and Clark caverns. Incredible cave, beautifully lit. One of the coolest places I've visited. Hidden gem forsure.
At first I was angered by Simon's lack of knowledge of US geography, especially from doing so many of these "educational" shows, but then I realized that while I know England isn't just beautiful metropolitan London and the gorgeous Sherwood Forrest/One Hundred Acre Wood countryside, I can't tell you where Manchester, Brighton, Liverpool or Stratford (well, maybe Stratford-it's near Avon) is on a map. Touche.
I can tell you aren't a teacher, since you'd implode when you realize half of high school graduates in the US couldn't point to Idaho on the map.
In Florida, when I tell people I'm from Iowa, I've had people remember it as Ohio, the potato state.
Part of the "like before you watch" gang
In 2005 my sisters volunteered to help with 'Lewis & Clark days' 200th anniversary at Pompeii's Pillar National Monument; which has the only known hard evidence of the expedition, with Clark carving his name into the pillar. The great-great-great (maybe more) grandson of Clark was in attendance and they got his autograph!
AWESOME! I drove from Lewiston, Idaho to Missoula, Montana on US Highway 12 at the same time this video was uploaded! Even stopped at the Idaho- Montana Lewis and Clark Historical rest area. In a blizzard. That stretch is gorgeous! Of course, I am biased as I grew up on the Lewis and Clark Trail in the Clearwater River Valley.
Lewis and Clark were beaten across North America by Scotsman Alexander MacKenzie. Leaving Montreal in 1778 looking for the Pacific he took a wrong turn and reached the Arctic at the mouth of the river bearing his name in 1789. Returning to UK to study navigation he returned to Montreal and left Fort Chipewyan in what is now northeaster Alberta in October 1792. He left for the Pacific reaching the west coast of what is now British Columbia at the mouth of the Bella Coola River in July 1793.
The crew that survived this journey incredible!
The stories of Sacagawea & York are adventures, too.
The movie Almost Heros is actually the real story of the first explorers to reach the Pacific Ocean. Elegantly portrayed by Chris Farley and Chandler Bing . Now you know, and knowings half the battle.
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In St Louis, under the Arch, is a museum where a large portion is dedicated to Lewis and Clark.
there's also the Lewis and Clark Boathouse Museum in historic St Charles but tbh that's probably more for schoolchildren (or if you happen to like replica boats I guess)
York was NEVER freed by Clark, though it was his request as his reward.
York was actually freed, but there's debate on what happened after the fact. Some historians like to claim York regretted being freed (which, we know they're white, lbh) and others say he was happy. Many claimed his death came of disease and other posit a long life, but no one knows for sure what all happened afterwards.
The expedition traveled the entire route giving everything they laid eyes on an English name and Latin taxonomy without ever once asking the native peoples they encountered if they had a name for whatever it was they found. It was later learned that, yes, the natives had already named everything from the highest peaks to the tiniest wildflowers, because that's what people do, they name everything in their environment.
The group was also dumbfounded by the number of horses the Nez Perce nation had under their control. Great herds of them.
I wonder how much knowledge of the practical uses of flora & fauna never ended up being recorded/translated...
Jup and they named it for the USA. Thank God. Alot better than having those Indian weird ass names be forced on the new true people of America from Europe.
The purchase was not "to the border of Canada". It was north to the headwaters of the Missouri (Mississippi?) River. That actually runs far into the interior of modern day Canada. Negotiations led to the modern border.
I live in Lewiston, Idaho. On the other side of the Snake River is Clarkston, Washington. Named after this expedition. Have statues and historical markers all over the area.
Mega Project idea: The "Mining and Chemical Combine" in Zheleznogorsk, Russia. A Plutonium production plant. The entire facility was built 200 meters into the mountain, and contains 3 Nuclear Reactors (Basically the same design as РБМК, like in Chernobyl),1 АД and 2 АДЭ (АДЭ-2 provided power and heating to the workers city, Zheleznogorsk). The facility has its own railway and electric locomotive.
Now the Plutonium production is stopped (since 95'), and the reactors were shut down. Now they produce MOX fuel for fast liquid metal Reactors (for now, БН-800).
Doing this trip in a year. Spring of 2022.
My grandmother had traced our family roots back to England in 2006. Turns out we’re distant cousins of William clark by his brother, john clark. Its also how we found out we have some Native American dna in us too. Now we don’t claim to be natives by any means, but It’s kinda cool to see your heritage intertwined with your countries history.
Third generation Idahoan here, it's okay Simon. (A) this state acts like the Alabama of the North West, (B) most people in the US don't know where we are on a map, and most of those who do will say Ohio or Iowa first, and (C) I couldn't point of Prague on a map either 😂👌
This would make an extraordinary film
Simon,
Another (American) megaproject that's well worth your time is the Transcontinental Railroad.
It's a remarkable story. The Transcontinental Railroad needed capital infusions that couldn't have been financed without the invention of the modern corporation and the modern banking system. It couldn't have happened without a large supply of experienced railroad construction engineers (thank you, American Civil War generals). On and on, everything that the Transcontinental Railroad needed in order to be built was the birth of 20th Century manufacturing, banking, and corporate structures. It's also two parallel stories: One, about the process that moved east to west, the other about the process that moved west to east.
Very well said, and True from your closing statements
I bought and read Stephen Ambrose's book (same guy wrote Band of Brothers) "Undaunted Courage" twenty years ago. I've been hoping that you'd cover this for ages. Admittedly I expected it to land on GeoGraphics. It's a fantastic story and worth reading.
Great, thanks. The L&C journals are really worth reading. BTW, little correction: Blackfoot people, not pluralized into Blackfeet.
It is interesting to note that at Fort Clatsop, Lewis & Clark did not want to eat salmon, despite being in the richest salmon region of the world! Their frontier honed digestive system made eating salmon difficult. Apparently salmon gave them flatulence, so they traded for dog...
You should do a video on the 2021 Suez Canal obstruction
Once again, outstanding!
You do an amazing job with presenting this videos, keep up the amazing great work!
You did well with a topic you admit knowing next to nothing about. I would think that the Grand Canal of China, the karez water system of Turpan, Gobekli Tepe, and the Ness of Broadgar all qualify as Megaprojects of their time and place.
All we really got for the purchase was New Orleans and St. Loius. The rest was just lines on a map. This expedition was like exploring Mars today.
"They were just toally happy to be like 'we own that'...and I know as a British person, I know I can hardly talk: my country's history is also like this."
Most every country's history is like this. The strong conquer the weak. That's what the hundreds of Native American tribes did to each other before the Europeans arrived, too.
So might is right?
Amazing video we went out to Oregon last month and saw the fort out there it was really cool u could still see the stream where they would get there water and where they would dock there canoes. It was awsome
Lewis and Clark had their first big meeting with Plains indian tribes at a place in Nebraska called "Council Bluff". Both recognized the military value of the location. Later, it was the site of Fort Atkinson. The last military outpost the US built to fight the British.
There are many museums and parks along their route. Of particular note are the replicas of the long boats the men built. Incredible feats of engineering.
Simon gets a US History lesson. Huzzah!!
I live in Lewis and Clark county in the state of Montana. They're kind of a big deal around here. 😁
Wow, to be in Montana now that it's 107 degrees in Phoenix!
Read numerous books on this, enjoyed them all.Durham lad.
Another interesting point of historical trivia concerning the expedition that I'd hoped to hear more about; the rifles used! I've heard that they used a type of air rifle that had unexpected benefits, they were much quieter than the typical firearms of the time. Consequently while traveling through certain areas along their trip, they'd avoided the attention of some of the more war like tribes.
Don’t worry about not knowing where to find Idaho on a map, I have no idea where Hobbiton is in England, near Yorkshire I guess.... 😁
Current reading The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard DeVito. Thank you for adding so much to my reading adventure!