Lewis and Clark bicentenial

[Liver eatin’ Johnson]

Anyone doing anything special for this momentous occasion? I see Swamp Rat is building a fine Lewis and Clark hunting rifle and producing an awesome website as well. I plan on savoring my two volume Heritage Press " Journals of the Expedition" by reading only a few pages every night. Then I'm going to revisit the Lewis and Clark interpretive center in Ilwaco WA. and Fort Clatsop among other areas of the Columbia River area. Who knows... maybe a new 1792 contract rifle too?

 

[Ohio Joe]

Our Fur Trade club as well as many other club's here in Nebraska are planning some events as I understand it, but what, I don't know for sure? I would expect that club's located along the route they took across the west will have some big doin's... I wonder if we will see a movement towards more Lewis & Clark period activities take off from this 200 year epic anniversary? I am also hoping that Hollywood will keep their fairytale history out of it in the form of a new movie...

 

[Doc Arroyo]

LEJ-

Here in California I didn't think that I would find a way to participate. As a amateur L&C historian, I have been slightly jealous of the folks that are on the trail, and have been able to properly, and at times improperly, celebrate the anniversaries!

Then the local IMAX movie house gave us a call. I was able to help a few of our interpreters (ca. 1846) to renovate their outfits to 1803. Then we set up "camp" in the lobby of the theater for the opening night of the IMAX Lewis and Clark film. When the opening showing of the film let out, we were right outside the door. And we got to give the folks a little additional history lesson! The got to see, feel and smell the brain tanned clothing, heft a flintlock musket or rifle, etc. It sure was a wonderful evening for us, and the movie wasn't to bad either!

I have been trying to decide on my next rifle build, and the 1792 still isn't out of the running.

By the way, revisit Clatsop on a rainy day. Friends visited in the summer tourist season. It was a completely different experience than when I saw it in the middle of a stormy week. It gave me a real feeling of the place.

 

[Gary]

I'm with Doc Arroyo on this one. Out here in CA Lewis & Clark just aren't as appreciated. About the closest thing we have to the period is Sutter's Fort in Sacramento.

BTW, I saw that IMAX film in San Diego a year or so ago. Thumbs up!

 

[T. A. Brown]

LEJ, :applause: I sure wish I could be with you, I live only about 38 some miles south of Salmon Id., just a few miles N. of Salmon is a part of the L&C trail and I want to go up to it with my wife and our 18' teepee and go back in on our horses, I have been trying to find out from all the people that the trail is on private land if we could do this! :curse: what a mess trying to get things done.
Have a good trip and think of all of us that wish we could be with you. :cry:
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keep ye powder dry and the wind at ye back
Tim/bear1st :thumbsup: