[Philmont] Cameras and notepads. A differing opinion.

Roy is right about the abridged versions.

Also, go to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea

to read about Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman, who accompanied Lewis and
Clark and to see a picture of the U.S. coin issued in a recent year in
her honor.

Joe Jansen
JAJansenJr@gmail.com

On 10/19/07, Roy Fisher <rfisher003@satx.rr.com> wrote:
> With all due respect, that was their job/assignment. That way if they died
> or didn't make it back to Virginia, their journals would tell people what
> they saw, encountered, experienced, etc.
>
> The abridged versions are an excellent read; the full journals are very
> meticulous and full of scientific details that would bore most folks to
> death. Too bad they got misplaced along the way, by Lewis and/or Clark, and
> didn't get published until a number of years after the expedition. By then
> most of the details had been reported by other 'adventurers'.
>
> Happy Trail,
>
> Roy Fisher
>
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> Jansen
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> Subject: [Philmont] Cameras and notepads. A differing opinion.
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> On keeping a journal: Lewis and Clark are famous for their expedition
> but the journals they kept are lesser known.
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> It would be worth sharing their journals with Scouts about to head off
> to Philmont, to give them a tremendous example of a journal kept for
> President Thomas Jefferson.
>
> Their journals are probably in most major public libraries and also in
> bookstores such as Barnes & Nobles.
>
> Joe Jansen
> JAJansenJr@gmail.com
> Philmont 1965; 1978
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