While most Americans born in the USA up through 1990(prior to our most recent immigration surge) have some recollection of the Lewis & Clark Expedtion across what is now our western states, most of us are unaware or at the very least very vague about the numerous surveys and journals kept of of the fauna, flora and Native Americans of the southwest, Rockies, Northwest and California that were kept by numerous soldiers, frontiersmen, and trappers traversing the region post 1806, just as the Lewis & Clark "crew" were returning from their odyssey ......For your independent study of this subject over the course of the New Year ahead, I have posted two excellent links to get you pointed in the right direction,,,,,,,,,,,,,First hand journals always shed a new light on the great "storehouse of life" that existed across our great Country prior to European colonization, providing a potential blueprint for rewilding efforts that many of us would like to see implemented over the decades ahead

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Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America
After Lewis & Clark

FRONTIER LEGENDS; TRAPPERS,
 TRADERS,
FRONTIERSMEN

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