... and other things from reading Jefferson's many books and from Jefferson himself. At the time, only Jefferson and Lewis lived in the White House so things were pretty quiet most of the time. The quiet ended, though, in the summer of 1802. Alexander Mackensie had explored Western Canada and had reached the Pacific just north of Vancouver. He wrote a book based on his exploration urging Britain to ... found guilty. Punishment for what he had done could have been as severe as being killed, but he instead had to "run the Gantlet- four times, and he lost his place in the permanent party. At t...

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... meet again. Clark is a rifleman for "Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne."" (pg30) Both Lewis and Clark were able to see a little action against the federated Indian's but that was all of the action they were able participate in. After the confrontation with the Indians the war was over for Lewis and Clark. They spent a week waiting for a boat to pick them up and take them home. When ... the boat finally arrived the crew was drunk and four days later they still hadn't sobered up. They were tired of waiting and ready to go home so the two bought horses and set out on their own. They were able to trav...

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... and are connected by causeways. Some believe that there were dense zigzagging weirs between the causeways to catch fish. Many have heard about how poor the soils of the amazon are, all its nutrients are swept away with the rain, leaving soil that's pretty much useless. Two thousand years ago the Native Americans knew this as well, but they found a way to create fertile soil that ... animals by hunting. When the Native Americans began dying of diseases brought by the Europeans, the population of animals previously hunted by the Native Americans more than sextupled. Europeans were not ope...

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