Corps of Discovery Expedition, Narrated by Megan Kate Nelson
Megan Kate Nelson is an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She is best known as the author of The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier, a celebrated epic that relays a counter-history of the American West. Nelson follows the epic journey of Lewis and Clark, who mapped the American West and transformed the young nation's knowledge of its vast new territory.
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I would add the reason Napoleon decided to sell French holdings in North America to the new nation was because of the successful slave revolt in Haiti. America owes so much to the people of Haiti - yet this regime is taking away TPS.
I am reminded that many others in later years have recreated this epic trek by retracing Clark and Lewis' route ( including my family in a mid 1980s Saturn 😂). If this nation ever does return to some better state than it is right now, I may try it again to feel the immense losses for indigenous peoples as well as the immense gains. Here is to hoping we heal well and quickly.