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By Peter Stark
Lib book
And now the world of John Jacob Astor. I first delved into this world in Fur Fortune and Empire bu Dolin. I love this time period in American History. It was a time when fortunes were created from the exploitation of the environment. It still goes on today. We drain the planet fof the betterment of the few. Although Astor is credited with the whole enterprise he is actually just the man who funded it. Those who really created it all remain unsung. Hopefully in this book we will get some of their story as well.
108 Much like Sacagewea, the overland group had a squaw with them that went be the name Marie Dorion. And the author muses about those two meeting each other and what would have been said. Interesting.
110 one thing everyone agreed on, avoid the Blackfeet. It appears they had it our for white men since Lewis and Clark had killed one of tbeir own.
125 In the wekk of June 12, 1811 both parties met in the Arikara villages gathering supplies for the trek up the Missouri. Sacagewea was with her husband Toussant Charbonneau in the Manuel Lisa party. While in Hunt's oveland party was Marie Dorion with two small children and now pregnant.
Check that date. A war was about to break out.
132 the naming of the grand Tetons. A frenchman called them the great tits. And the name stuck.
146 Several canoes were lost on the run down the Mad river some of them laden with goods. In 1938 one of them was found with goods still intact. Awesome!
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