Following Lewis and Clark Over the Mountains

[@jamesbarnett2483]

Excellent work! Thanks for doing this. Have you read the Ambrose book about this journey?

[@scenicroutestothepast]

I did - and I re-read it just before leaving on my trip, to help plan my route

[@bethwilliams4903]

Love this episode, quite unexpected! Not a toga in sight! Wonder how many people know anything about Clark’s older brother, George Rogers Clark, an old warhorse friend of Jefferson, virtually ruined by his contribution during the Revolution - his efforts to protect the western border from attacks by from the British (ie two prong assault the Continental armies could not afford) was done with literally a handful of men - Jefferson wanted George for this mission but he was physically a wreck from the War so little brother went in his place - your awesome photographic montage gives some idea why the older Clark would have been unable to survive this trip! Love this episode, bravo!!!

[@rickb3078]

Loved following the trail a decade ago. Thank you for the video!

[@joelsmith3473]

The art doesn't properly convey this, but Sacagawea was 16 at the start of the expedition. It's amazing to think of her so young on such a trek and that she gave birth to her first child mid-journey.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

They raped her continually as well. She was a slave and sex trafficking victim. By 16 she'd already been the victim of rape for several years by older white men.

[@marniusvanderlubbe]

thank you for making these videos this one was really good

[@paulkoza8652]

Nice photos and story Garrett. I like traveling the west when there are no tourists around. Early November is perfect to avoid most winter snows.

[@Blane2017]

Great video, Garrett. William Clark is my however-many-greats-uncle so the expedition has always fascinated me. Thanks for making this!

[@snotnosewilly99]

An unusual thing about the Lewis and Clark expedition.....they had Austrian air-rifles. The rifles used compressed air to force the bullets out of the barrel...similar to a BB-gun, but with much more force. The air-rifles had about 20 bullets in the magazine. But, they were not as powerful as the muzzle loading black powder rifles, which they also had. The Austrian army used them for a short time. There are videos on KZbin of people shooting these rifles. ( Forgotten Weapons)

[@JOtwell07]

This is a marvellous video of your and their journey. I like your other channels, but this one is my favorite.

[@BlueTorento]

Great stuff

[@Solfaur]

Beautiful scenery, I can only imagine how hard it must have been back then to do these explorations compared to nowadays.

[@glycerine199]

Very cool

[@davidhart8621]

Very fun video - I read Stephen Ambrose 's book, Undaunted Courage, a few years back, and your video is a great visual compliment to that. So thank you!

[@sicko_the_ew]

Beautiful and deadly (at least back then). The kind of lands where you just have to see what's over the next hill, I think. What a feat.

[@cerberus6654]

Bravo Dr. G! I liked the visuals you selected. It's kind of forgotten but Europeans found the First Nations people to be generally of magnificent physical proportions and so much taller. Maybe it was the result of the diseases the Europeans introduced and the concomitant famines but - especially in Central America - being shorter is associated with being indigenous. Yet up here in Canada I grew up with very tall First Nations people. Our Boy Scout group was 'teamed' with the Caugnawagha nation - cousins to the Mohawk - and they were big, beefy boys we went on joint summer camps with. Sweet-natured, polite but capable of the fiercest competiveness. I loved them. My best friend from years ago, a woman, is a Chippewa who is about six feet tall. And the famous Canadian First Nations playwright Tomson Highway must be about 6' 2'' or so. They were - and still are wuite often - tall, imposing. You should check out the sweeping Canadian movie 'Black Robe' - about the Jesuit mission in the 1600's to the Huron. There's a moment when they introduce a tiny, 'midget' shaman who steals the scene(s). A few years after the movie was released I was doing an audio casting in Toronto and in he walked - all three feet of him - in spectacular Harley Davidson leathers. He was - if I remember correctly - Cree and he told me that the film had been gruelling, for someone with so little body weight to run around in a loincloth in the autumn up the Saguenay River. We never carried out the same clearly defined expropriate and exterminate program as you Americans did and in fact, it was the 'Indians' under Tecumseh who saved our bacon when you attacked us in the War of 1812. Later, we treated them despicably but now, more and more, we are seeking a commonality. Our Governor General is Inuit and she has proposed a meeting with King Charles to renew the centuries-old treaties between the First Nations and the Crown - not with the Dominion of Canada - but with the Crown.

[@hamiljohn]

Amazing as always!

[@qboxer]

Great video and great footage

[@TheDuc069]

Wow thank you so very much, this was great!!! I hope you had some fun doing this in the snow, it made me think how hard it must have been for L&C. Thank you, I really enjoy all your channels.

[@kevinaguirre3300]

Great video, as per usual sir. I read Lewis' diary accounts of their journey. Fascinating stuff. I was especially impressed by his description of the new to them animals they saw along the way like the never-ending herds of antelope, etc. My favorite was his account of their grizzly bear encounters and how ferocious they were and seemingly immune to their weapons writing "we quickly learned to avoid them at all costs", or something to that effect. Haha

[@ryanasazaki1291]

Man, these vistas are quite a sight to behold. I found myself quite enjoying a quiet, peaceful scenic nature like this, away from modern civilizations. Only thing I wish is to have the sufficient survival skills to be able to live in the wilderness. It's amazing to see that some aspect of these views are still being preserved as they were to previous explorers, even with modern-day development.

[@markstott6689]

I own and have read three times, Undaunted Courage. It was good to see some of the landscape Lewis and Clark journeyed through on their epic mission. Being British, all I could do for the last twenty years is imagine what things looked like. Thanks for this video. 😊❤❤❤😊

[@c.vonsohn9566]

next project should be following Nero's legion along the Nile

[@Reelworthy]

It really astonishes me that the natives did not guide them over the pass to the snake river valley, where they would have enjoyed a free-pass around all of the difficult mountains, and arriving at the same location. The pass along the Snake River would make for easy travels across hundreds of miles-the entire southern portion of Idaho. In fact I wonder if they had found this route whether they would have declared it “The Northwest Passage,” as it was a relatively short portage between the place they entered the mountains and the Idaho-wide gentle valley that the Snake River flows through.

[@johnspizziri1919]

Not too bad- you tried to swallow a Buffalo in one gulp. Missed my place by 5 miles if you went back along the yellow stone.

[@jakew520]

Wasn't the first mapped route across NA by Mackenzie?

[@leewarry8641]

Snow on the road ? What road

[@MpowerdAPE]

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