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Sent:
Sunday, April 24, 2011 8:00 AM
Subject:
Re: Holidays with the Corp of Discovery
Holidays
with the Corp of Discovery
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Easter
Checking
the different sources listed below, no
entries where made on this date, but we know
that they where with at Fort
Mandan waiting for the
ice to clear from the rivers.
Invoice
of articles from Fort Mandan to the
President:
- First
box, skins of the male and female
antelope, with their skeletons;.... horns
and ears of the black tail, or mule
deer;.... skeletons of small animals, or
burrowing wolf of the prairies, the skin
having been lost by accident.
- Second
box, four buffalo robes and an ear of
Mandan corn.
- Third
box, skins of male and female antelope,
with skeletons.
- Fourth
box, specimens of earths, salts and
minerals; specimens of plants;..... one
tin box containing insects.
In a
large trunk: one buffalo robe painted by a Mandan
man
representing
a battle which was fought eight years [ago],
by the Sioux and [Arikaras] against the
Mandans and [Hidatsas].
- One
cage, containing four living magpies.
- One
cage, containing a living burrowing
squirrel of the prairies.
- One
cage, containing one living hen of the
prairies.
One
large pair of elk’s horns, connected by the
frontal bone.
We know
that by the end of March the ice was no longer
a problem on the rivers and Lewis had sent a
small detachment back to St. Louis with the
big keelboat, loaded with materials for
Jefferson: maps, lengthy reports about
populations and customs of the Indian tribes
in the Louisiana
Territory and the prospects for trade,
and box after box of specimens they had
collected from the newest region of the now
growing U. States.
April ?.
At this moment, every individual of the party
are in good health and excellent sperits;
zealously attached to the enterprise, and
anxious to proceed; not a whisper of
discontent or murmur is to be heard among
them; but all in unison act with the most
perfect harmoney. With such men I have every
thing to hope, and but little to fear.
MERIWETHER
LEWIS
Once
again the Corps of Discovery headed west
...........
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From:
Paul Jacobson <pjacobson@bak.rr.com>
To:
Buck Conner < buckconner@yahoo.com>
Sent:
Sun, April 24, 2011 10:43:08 AM
Subject:
Re: Holidays with the Corp of Discovery
Buck,
your holiday notes are always a pleasure
to read – coffee or not.
For
years while I was teaching, I produced
what I called “Historical
Footnotes,” – a brief
description of some event that happened
each day. They were first published in the
school’s daily bulletin, and later when
the school read the bulletin via loud
speaker, they were emailed to those on
staff who wished them. They were also
emailed to sister campuses, and various
other individuals at schools, colleges or
whatever. For a while they were published
in a small local newspaper. Intended
originally for school use, there were at
least four items for any given date so
that a freshman starting in high school
could hear a different event each day for
their four-year high school career. For
your enjoyment I have copied an event for
this date below – it is not related to
the Easter Season, but rather to America
and especially Thomas
Jefferson.
Paul
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HISTORICAL
FOOTNOTE: April 24, 1800:
The Library of Congress is born as President
John Adams approves legislation
appropriating $5,000 to purchase "such
books as may be necessary for the use of
Congress." The first books, which were
ordered from London,
arrived in 1801 and were stored in the U.S.
Capitol, the library's first home. The first
library catalog, dated April 1802, listed
964 volumes and nine maps. When the British army
invaded the city of Washington and burned the
Capitol in 1814, the 3,000-volume Library of
Congress was lost in the flames. Former
president Thomas Jefferson responded to
this loss by selling his personal library, the
largest and finest in the country, to Congress
to "recommence" the library. In 1851,
a second major fire at the library destroyed
about two-thirds of its fifty-five thousand
volumes, including two-thirds of Thomas
Jefferson's library. Today, the collection,
housed in three enormous buildings in Washington,
contains more than seventeen million books, as
well as nearly ninety-five million maps,
manuscripts, photographs, films, audio and video
recordings, prints and drawings, and other
special collections. The main library building
itself is one of the most beautiful buildings in
Washington.
Added
Notation: Recently, a-here-to-fore
unrealized collection of 74 volumes of
Jefferson’s personal books were discovered at
Washington University. They had been originally
auctioned in 1829 to help pay off debts, and
were donated to the university in 1880. Since
that time, they sat unidentified until
researchers at Monticello,
Jefferson’s home, figured it out.
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I told you
folks this is some very interesting material
from a very knowledgeable member that the staff
really enjoyed, hope you have and will
encourage Paul to continue supplying "Smoke
Signals" with his “Historical
Footnotes”. |
