[analphilosopher] Keith Burgess-Jackson: Two Hundred Years Ago

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Posted by Keith Burgess-Jackson:
Two Hundred Years Ago
http://www.analphilosopher.com/posts/1152031021.shtml


   The Corps of Discovery has divided. Meriwether Lewis and about a third
   of the party are ascending (on horseback) the Big Blackfoot River.
   William Clark and the other two-third of the party are ascending (also
   on horseback) the Bitterroot River. It will be more than a month
   before the parties reunite. Historians have questioned the wisdom of
   dividing the party, since it made each part more vulnerable. That
   things worked out doesn't make it a wise decision. Clark halted his
   party for a "sumptuous" lunch to celebrate the Fourth of July. Lewis
   didn't mention the holiday. It's been 230 years since the Declaration
   of Independence was signed. It had been only 30 when Clark wrote about
   the event in his journal. [1]Here are the entries for this day.

References

   1. http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/examples/servlet/transform/tamino/Library/lewisandclarkjournals?&_xmlsrc=http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/lewisandclark/files/xml/1806-07-04.xml&_xslsrc=http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/lewisandclark/LCstyles.xsl