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Discussion in 'Games & Riddles' started by Allison Schuck, Jul 26, 2015.

  1. Terence Eames

    Terence Eames Very Well-Known Member
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    Seems our Winter fort was a good idea, especially for Wea who gave birth to a healthy baby. The men seemed soothed by the birth which is a good omen. She is recovering well our Surgeon says.

    Captain Clark, fancy doing a bit of foraging and hunting? Or stay here to guard the Fort. A dozen armed men and Toussaint as guide and interpretor for the skirting party I reckon, and you or me? (Shirley, fancy playing Wea's husband, Tous?)
    A deer or two would be nice, and some edible roots and the like.
     
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    Tous: I scouted the area just south of here. The buffalo are plentiful there. We will need to kill at least two; one for fresh meat and one to make jerky for the winter. I suggest we head out early tomorrow morning. We will need to have time to dress the buffalo before dark.
    I will ask Wea what roots and herbs we might find.
     
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    Those wild giant hairy cows Tous!
    They look like demonic monsters.

    I hear some have giant horns too.
    The men should have loaded musket and likewise pistols, plus swords and daggers.
    and axes to make drag carriages for the bounty. Spades too with all other necessary supplies for this Winter venture. Good horses for all, skinners, butchers, soldiers and on,... are needed skills, plus two sacks of preserving salt. I've order Sgt Jones to make smoking fires to cure the jerky, lit upon success. Bode me or ye well.
    Four able looking citizen volunteers have also volunteered their skills and abilities, and supplies to this winter foraging mission. I'm happy to see how they fare. Well I pray. Our mandate is from our President Jeffetson himself. I have the papers in my inner breast pocket.
    Will you go Captain Clark or I ?
    Tous says his young wife knows better than he about edible roots and the like. She
    drew drawings of healthy roots with her husband Tous writing down her words in French. Such generosity of spirit! She even wants to come on the foraging mission, and many of the men have volunteered to care for her new born baby. Me or Ye?
    Happy to stretch my legs if ye dinny.
     
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    Unlikely as it may seem, part of our venture is to look for a North West passage, where many others have failed in the frigid northern ice fields.
    Perhaps a system of more great lakes and rivers with the consideration on Locks over channels through the Rockies. A worthy thought from our President Jefferson.
    That is an aspect of our mission.
    A land route seems more plausible to me and efficient, I deem so. Let that be our main focus, and surviving in good humour.
     
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    The Shoshone are a Native American tribe, who originated in the western Great Basin and spread north and east into present-day Idaho and Wyoming. By 1500, some Eastern Shoshone had crossed the Rocky Mountains into the Great Plains. By 1800 there was peace between the White American settlers and the Shoshone.
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    Wea's Shoshone home in Wyoming, 1800 from where the Lewis/Clarke expedition set out to seek the North West Passage and explore and map lands for the US Government.
     
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    It is important Captain Lewis that we prepare completely for our expedition as we will be traveling for months. Say we leave at sun up the day after tomorrow.

    Wea if you can think of any Indian items we may need pack those too please.
     
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    Agreed Captain Clark, let us leave, the Spring is upon us and we have ample food supplies with all the smoked and salted Buffalo Beef.
    • April 7: With the arrival of spring, the Corps resumes its journey. The keelboat is sent back down the Missouri with a crew of a dozen men and a shipment for President Jefferson. The "permanent party" travels west in the two pirogues and six dugout canoes.
     
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    On the second day, we spotted a flock of buzzards circling at a distance. That means something or someone has died or is about to die. Captain Clark sent Captain Lewis and myself (Sous) out to investigate. Soon we reached the area where the buzzards were cycling. There we found a young brave with a broken leg. I asked him how it got broken. Wea has taught me some of the native language. He said that his horse had been startled by a rattler and bolted; throwing him to the ground and breaking his leg. I made a splint for his leg while the others searched for his horse. He was grazing nearby. We made a travois and loaded him onto it. He showed us the way to his village. It turned out that he was the grandson of the chief. He invited us to stay with them for a few days. Shall we accept?
     
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    I suppose two extra days will make little difference. To refuse the Chief's invitation may seem disrespectful and we may need his tribe's help at a later date. That evening the two commanders, Wea and Sous were guests of Running Wolf the chief of the Cheyenne tribe of the central plains of Wyoming to a grand feast.. which the women had been preparing for hours before their arrival. There were large buffalo steaks which had been roasted over hot coals in the sandy earth, fish, corn and an assortment of berries..a Cheyenne delicacy, washed down with buffalo milk. The four were then entertained by a colorful and spirited tribal dance featuring both men and women. Soft buffalo rugs served as our sleeping mattress spread around the Chief's huge teepee.. Wea and her bub slept in the elite single women's teepee......
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    It is our mission's duty to gain knowledge of local tribes such as these Indians on our quest Clark. And to make peaceful terms with them.
    We need to find a safe way west as our President Jefferson has requested. Maybe later we may find a way north. The French explored most of the Great lakes and found nothing substantial. They are French though.
    The men need rest too but to keep good relations, we must keep in check their behaviour, they must be kept in check.
    I've ordered Sgt Jones to administer a mere 10 lashes to Pte Smith in Public for urinating in their public space as seen by all. The public whipping seems to have satisfied honour and respect with the Indians. Chief Running Wolf nodded his approval. I gave Smith 2 more lashes myself for scowling. I hope we have to have any more such lessons.

    With the aid of Wea, I have been quite successful trading and bartering with Running Wolf and his people. They prize metal and love those mirrors you brought along. Good thinking. They also prized greatly some steel knives I traded with them.
    Tous helped with the barter but Wea was fantastic, especially for one so young, and with a babe on her back! I was more interested in their art, tools, weapons, cutural artifacts and so on. Wea wanted a big mixture of medicinal hetbs and at the like. I paid a twin shot pistol, powder and 50 lead balls for the medicines Wea wanted. I trust her, and Tous.

    And all the stories Wea and Tous translated for me. Running Wolf told of of huge Buffalo herds roaming the plains ahead. He has no knowledge of any great river headed north, only the Great Missouri we're on, and a southward fork off the Missouri called the Yellowstone river.
    We still have good food supplies but did aquire a dozen sacks of fresh root vegetables that Wea nodded approval to.
    And is it true Captain Clark, that like many of our kindly men, you have taken a fondness for Wea's baby boy Jean who you and now most of our men call "Pompy"? Toussaist seems not to mind.
     
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    Pulling in our boats for the night into a natural cove, some of us climbed a nearby hill and Clark set up his Theodolite, giving charge to some of his skilled men to assist him. The rest, under command of some Lieutenants and Sergeants made a secure Camp and the men were rewarded with hot beef stew and potatoes and 2 tots of rum each. They deserved it.
    Special arrangements were made for Tous, Wea and her baby boy Jean.

    Clark knew his astronomy well and had several accurate watches. I enjoyed watching his prowess until he cried "what is that ahead to our west? A large dark silhouette blocking out the stars.
    It looks like a giant N-S mountain range. Huge. From behind Toussaint said' that is the Rocky Divide separating the lands. A huge range of Rocky mountains.'

    Lewis said, "Then we must find a way through these Rockies with an eye on northbound rivers.
    Clark, could you sketch and map it. That is a vital record. It looks like many peaks are still snow capped as well which means more rivers I'd guess"
     
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    After they finished the notations and mapping, they returned to camp and bedded down for the night. They were wakened by loud cries. It was Clark's slave ,York, shouting, "One of the horses is gone!" Soon all the camp was astir. They spotted tracks leading away away from the camp. There were moccasin tracks leading up to the camp so they knew that an Indian had stolen the horse. Running Wolfe had told them about a renegade from his tribe who had been expelled for horse theft. He must have been following them, waiting for an opportunity to steal.
     
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    I Lewis took a dozen armed men and Toussaint as tracker.
    Toussaint really proved his worth leading us to the renegade Indian's hiding. He surrendered at once seeing our mounted force. Toussaint and 2 of my men bound him and another retrieved our stolen horse. Tous questioned him at length to find his character sour. We gave him a dozen lashes with a warning that this was a mild punishment, and if again he stole from us, I would double the punishment.
    In an act of Charity Toussaint applied a healing salve on his ripped back and I said a prayer for the redemption of his soul. Green Snake was his name. He even asked Toussaint if he could join us. I refused his request having a strong dislike of Thieves.
    We left him with 4 lbs of beef jerky, 3lbs of edible roots, 2 skins of water, a flint and an iron boiling pot. We let him keep his weapons. Christ sees all.
     
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    And so we continued. As we got farther up the mountainous area, the traveling became more difficult. At times, we had to dismount and lead the horses over rocky terrain. Finally, we reached a point that seemed to widen and was easier going. We approached a small valley that had plenty of game. But we seem to have lost Captain Clark. Where is he? Have the Indians captured him? Has he fallen into a crevice? Or is he making maps?
     
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    Captain Lewis has had me occupied but I am now back on deck. We were all rather exhausted after riding for six hours thru mountainous terrain. At least one of our horses had thrown a shoe.

    Yes the game was plentiful with everything from black bear, porcupine, cougar, bobcat, beaver, shrew, and pika to caribou. There was also a small herd of bullalo but there was an unwritten rule among the settlers and the native people that the buffalo was to be left for them as their major supply of meat. We certainly did not want any trouble with an unknown tribe caused by us pilfering their main food and clothing source.
     
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