admin | March 25, 2010
If not for Benjamin Rush, there might not be a Travelers’ Rest State Park out by Lolo. Rush was one of our nation’s founding fathers, he signed the Declaration of Independence, and in 1812 he famously soothed the bruised feelings between former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams and got them talking — or at [...]
admin | March 20, 2010
In the post below, I noted that Gary Moulton is working on a narrative of the day-by-day travels of Lewis and Clark. At a conference called “Science & Humanities: Inseparable by Nature” last Sunday in Great Falls, he talked about another research project concerning Sacajawea. How many times, he asked an audience that was clearly [...]
admin | March 18, 2010
Good news out of Great Falls last weekend for Lewis and Clarkies. Gary Moulton is back in the game. He’s best known for editing 13 volumes worth of the L&C journals back in the 1980s, and Moulton lent an authoritative voice throughout the Bicentennial a few years ago. Retired from the University of Nebraska, he [...]
admin | November 19, 2009
Thought I’d trot this one out again. We ran it in the paper in the lead-up to the 2001 “Brawl of the Wild.” Not everyone in Montana gives a damn about the Grizzly-Bobcat football game. But folks from all walks of life do, and don’t our peculiar walks define us? I’ve long thought the home [...]
admin | October 7, 2009
Meriwether Lewis, by his hand or someone else’s, died 200 years ago next Sunday. The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, based in Great Falls, was in Tennessee today to memorialize the event. Here’s the AP account: HOHENWALD, Tenn. — Two hundred years after he died mysteriously, explorer Meriwether Lewis was honored Wednesday as a [...]
admin | August 11, 2009
If you’re reading this, you probably know about the mystery that still surrounds Meriwether Lewis’ death on Oct. 11, 1809. Now Lewis and Clark writer/researcher Kira Gale of Omaha reports on her website: “Almost 200 collateral descendants of Meriwether Lewis have signed a petition asking for exhumation to determine the cause of his death–whether it [...]
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