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@danbone10

3 жыл бұрын

Plumbrook nasa Sandusky Ohio

@jonathanperry8331

3 жыл бұрын

You have to see turner and hooch. Great movie! One of the classics. It's one of Tom Hanks first movies. About a police officer adopting a rather rambunctious junkyard dog it's more intense than it sounds

@danielthomas9086

3 жыл бұрын

Would you do a video on the Mason-Dixon line? Was an amazing feat for the time, maybe on this channel or side projects. Keep up the good work!

@LanMandragon1720

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Simon your country is like that....Like father like son am I right?😂😂😂🤣🤣

@mikericholson8627

3 жыл бұрын

💯🍼😄@@danielthomas9086 43y454d4🤵💈🚉🚅💉⛏️🎂🤣🙂🙂💊😙😙🧐😋😊💊

These dudes were made of steel. Their tour of the US wasn't a vacation, more comparable to Astronauts than surveyors.

@redram5150

3 жыл бұрын

And don’t forget that their journey was upriver... that means against the current.

@ossiencadwallourien-modred447

3 жыл бұрын

Little brothers couldn't do anything without someone holding their hands the entire way... more like children with cardboard boxes pretending to be astronauts and marveling at the supermarket

@Hollylivengood

3 жыл бұрын

Not even. They went nowhere without the guidance of Sacoguia, while she was pregnant giving birth and finally while raising her child. Now she was made of solid steel.

@michaelhowell2326

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hollylivengood holy shit, is it impossible to give someone credit without talking about how women and POCs did a better job? Just bc she was there doesn't take away from how amazing their feat was. Its ok to give credit where credit is due.

@Juliankb39

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelhowell2326 nope, their inferiority complex induced temper tantrums will never stop.

Don't worry I'm from Idaho and we prefer people not knowing where we are

@TheQuarterrat

3 жыл бұрын

When he said that I thought "I couldn't find any English Counties on a map, so fair enough."

@nazukeoya

3 жыл бұрын

I think it worked.

@terryarmbruster7986

3 жыл бұрын

Idaho? What's that? 🤔

@Odin029

3 жыл бұрын

I have a friend... from Alabama who once drove to Wyoming and Idaho just to have a look around.

@herrunsinn774

3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry... there's not much danger of that happening.

I live 15 minutes from the only marker that the expedition left. A carving in a small butte off the Yellowstone river that reads W Clark July 25 1806.

@schannoman

3 жыл бұрын

Ahoy fellow Billings-ite

@DIGITAL7Media

3 жыл бұрын

Well........Dont just say that....go visit it and tell us all about it you selfish bastard. ; )

@paddycakee5708

3 жыл бұрын

@@DIGITAL7Media that's the funny thing. I have many times it kinda dominates the history books.

@LanMandragon1720

3 жыл бұрын

I live about 30 mjns from where they started.

“Undaunted Courage” is a great book about the expedition and it was hard to put down until I finished it Talk about rugged individualism!

@andrewrehnert4997

3 жыл бұрын

These men also dealt with hordes of mosquitoes, grizzly bears were common in the continent as well as wolves. They hunted every day and the Indian men who were with them ate 12 lbs of meat daily. On one such trip for deer a grizzly bear charged after the men and chased Lewis into a river where he lost his gun. He was so upset over this that he took off with another hunting party just to kill that bear. A charging grizzly bear has got to be one of the most horrific experiences........there were no snowflakes amongst this group

@FatManWalking18

3 жыл бұрын

read "out west" by dayton duncan. it's a more lighthearted take on the undaunted courage story.

@Frizzle8484

3 жыл бұрын

Glad someone mentioned this, I've listened to it on tape countless times on my way to canoe trips on the Missouri river and could never get enough of the story!

@rosmundsen

3 жыл бұрын

I most strongly recommend this book.

@johnclaybaugh9536

3 жыл бұрын

I loved Undaunted Courage. The Lewis and Clark Expedition has always fascinated me.

I’ll admit, you had me scared. You talked conflict, and I thought Raid Shadow Legends finally paid you enough to become a sponsor for you.

@StevenLockey

3 жыл бұрын

Its pretty much as bad as Raid Shadow Legends.... there again so is CrossOut and Simon quite happily gets sponsored by that. I don't think he realises that the devs literally gave him £1000s worth of stuff on his account that most players will never see without spending that much money or literally 1000s of hours of gameplay (per item).

Mapping their route - It is relatively easy to determine how far North and South they traveled by sighting Polaris. But they didn't know how far East and West they traveled until two years after the trip was over. That was determined by astronomers reviewing detailed sightings taken of Jupiter's 4 moons with their telescope. They also did medical examinations of the Indian tribes to try to determine what diseases they had before encountering Europeans. It was an amazing scientific journey with numerous discoveries.

@TrapperAaron

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta disagree a bit they had a very good idea of how far west and east they had traveled. They used the method of dead reckoning. If u know ur average speed and time traveled u can very accurately determine distance.

3:20 - Chapter 1 - Background 4:25 - Chapter 2 - The purpose 6:15 - Chapter 3 - Lewis & clark 7:15 - Chapter 4 - Preparations 10:05 - Chapter 5 - The expeditions begins 11:55 - Chapter 6 - Winter at fort mandan 13:45 - Chapter 7 - Onward 15:30 - Chapter 8 - Winter at fort clatsop 16:05 - Chapter 9 - The return 17:15 - Chapter 10 - After the expedition

@Kaedehara_Kazuzu

Жыл бұрын

@@deadzio so?

i live 10 miles from where lewis and clark camped when they first saw the pacific ocean. the expedition is celebrated here in WA

@bubbaholen5087

3 жыл бұрын

And in Oregon my dude.... in the amusement park in Portland. there was a super old Lewis and Clark ride that showed kids what they did. It was really old so it got shit down... but I have very vivid memories of it

@fishnet420

3 жыл бұрын

West coast is the best coast

@jonathanperry8331

3 жыл бұрын

I wish you could post pictures in the comments on youtube I would like to see what that looks like

@Bigbadredg14nt

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanperry8331 due to some pretty impressive logging, most of what they would have saw is all dunes now, and thanks to an off shore jetty system there is more wetland than beach, up where i am anyway.

@jaymevosburgh3660

3 жыл бұрын

I do love living here

When we moved from Maryland to Washington State in February it gave me a real sense of how beautiful things are with all our modern tech. It was probably amazing and terrifying to be on horse and carriage back when the frontier was so unknown. We did in 4 days what took them years. Mad respect for anyone back then for setting off into the unknown.

I"m from St. Louis, lived there 30 years, often visited St. Charles as well. There are a lot of monuments and trail markers that show you where they traveled, it's amazing to stand at the same place they did so many years before and imagine what it was like seeing the great Mississippi and Missouri river confluence. It's beautiful if you've never been, you should go. It's an underappreciated landmark. A little way up the Missouri river you will find Hanibal, MO, the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain. A lot of history in that area.

The saddest part I ever learned was that after one of them died, the dog died of a broken heart. It sat on the grave of its owner and basiclly starved and dehydrated itself to death intentionally............we don't deserve dogs😢❤

@brett4264

3 жыл бұрын

A prayer I say: "Lord, help me become the man my dog thinks I am."

@AeneasGemini

3 жыл бұрын

Considering the amount of people who mistreat dogs, I'd say they don't deserve us either (in a different way though)

@melindoranightsilver9298

3 жыл бұрын

😭 Poor dog

@blueberrypirate3601

3 жыл бұрын

Howard Carter's Red Setter howled in despair of hearing of his master's death and died of grief. That was in London. He died in Egypt.

Now that you have discovered where Idaho is on the map, you might be interested to know that the original capital of the state was Lewiston which is just across the river from a town in Washington state called Clarkston. Any guesses where the names of these cities came from? :)

@chiefslinginbeef3641

3 жыл бұрын

Nah...I don't read history I'm a socialist.

@deadpanda8917

2 жыл бұрын

I have my suspicions

@deadpanda8917

2 жыл бұрын

I bet it was something to do with my cheating ex wife getting tag teamed by Lewis and Clark from accounting at the firm she's secretarying at

@joshuabyram7485

2 жыл бұрын

There’s also a lewistown in Montana

@stuarthastie6374

Жыл бұрын

@@joshuabyram7485 did they lke carve theeir names on trees?

The Lois & Clark TV series was a play on Lewis & Clark. One of the most amazing feats was their mapping along the way where they would estimate the distance of a landmark ahead of them. When all was said and done, their estimate was off by about 4 miles of the 4000 or so miles.

Yes Simon..we all watched "Almost Heroes" dont forget to mention them and their efforts...

@Manuel-gu9ls

3 жыл бұрын

NOW GET IN THE BOAT!!!!!! Chris Farley as Hunt Bartholomew

@NoYouAreNotDreaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@Manuel-gu9ls i love chris farley...such a great comedic genius...so simple and yet so funny...

@facina3390

3 жыл бұрын

He just couldn’t quit eating those eggs! 😂

@Manuel-gu9ls

3 жыл бұрын

@@facina3390 (cracking the egg) all is needed is a shell

@NoYouAreNotDreaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@facina3390 that scene and the one where he tries to read is my top funniest of all time.

Might suggest then the Westward Expansion Memorial - The Saint Louis Arch, as another Mega Project.

As someone who lives near where sergeant floyd was buried it’s always interesting to hear other people learning about the expedition.

I've always been amazed at how they travel for 2 1/2 years through uncharted territory and only had one fatality. The town of Sargent Bluff and Floyd county, both in Iowa, are named after him.

@Hollylivengood

3 жыл бұрын

If you like history, you should take time to read about Toussaint Charbonneau, and the many porters and guides, and their wives, who went along with Lewis and Clark. They had already made the trip often, it just happened that Lewis and Clark were mapping it, but these guys had been over it many times, they were the insignificant people who did the work, you know? I think Charbonneau was violent and had other bad traits, but he had some amazing ones also, and it's a good read. Of course, anything about Sacogawia I'll always follow.

@stevenmooney2197

3 жыл бұрын

US history seems to forget that the french/metis coureur de bois that guided that expedition had been there before. Alex Mackenzie had crossed the continent and explored the high arctic 12 years before their over burdened expedition.

@Hollylivengood

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenmooney2197 Thank you. My point exactly.

I’ve ridden (on my motorcycle) Hiway 12 over the Lolo Pass from Montana to Lewiston, Idaho and it is truly one of the most beautiful roads anywhere.

@Deacetis1991

3 жыл бұрын

That's truly a motorcycle road. Hugs the river the whole time

@moonlightalkemist

3 жыл бұрын

It was gorgeous in the snow yesterday. In a pickup truck. With a heater. :)

@XLAdvRider

3 жыл бұрын

I rode the Lolo Trail (Lolo Motorway) which is the dirt trail L&C traveled. Was a blast until we were turned back short of Pierce by a forest fire.

@XLAdvRider

3 жыл бұрын

They say it “sho-sho-nee.” 90% of the Native Americans did unfortunately perish but mostly by disease.

@jeffreyhill8040

3 жыл бұрын

Grew up near Moscow, Idaho, so quite familiar with Highway 12 over Lolo. I did a coast-to-coast MC trip solo, in the fall of '91. Thought I could count on ideal weather the entire way and was a little shocked, reading the Lewis & Clark info sign at the Continental Divide... The sign told the story of L & C nearly getting snowbound on their return journey up on the pass. Traveling in the same time of year as I was. It doesn't snow in September, does it???

If it makes you feel better, I live 5 minutes from where Lewis and Clark started their expedition and I didn't even know too much about it other than the brief overview in school textbooks.

@chiefslinginbeef3641

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from far far from there and learned the whole trip. Maybe it's because I'm from the rural south that enjoy real history lessons. As opposed to you're evil for being born here.

03:06 William Clark's most famous quote: "Why does that S.O.B. Lewis always get to go first?" 😅 😂 🤣

@billolsen4360

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that quote is cast in bronze at Lewis & Clark College in Portland

They carried some pretty amazing gear as well, including a .46 caliber Girardoni air rifle that could fire 30 rounds before recharging and could bring down a buffalo.

@stuarthastie6374

Жыл бұрын

With ome shot or 30? (%

Great Job Everyone! I'm American. Came from that middle bit in the US. Knew about the Lewis and Clark thing, probably studied it in grade school, but every Exhibition of this Expedition would prompt me to nod off. I love ephemera! Transatlantic cable! Nicola Tesla! Japanese Balloon bombs! Lewis and Clark....zzzzz. But thank you finally for putting some blood in the story. Well done! One tiny note: Shoshone: sho-sho-knee

Megaproject: Simon Whistler learns where all 50 states are on a map.

I think the Internet deserves as Megaproject video. How it started and progressed over the years to how it is now maybe?

@michaelgallagher3640

3 жыл бұрын

@@multirob137 recently finished watching the whole internet, exhausting. Simon is only thing worth watching.

Well done! I learned more from this video than I did in my history classes in school. What I learned basically was, Lewis and Clark went West and saw the Pacific Ocean. As for Sacajawea, all I learned about her was that she was their guide.

I live in Lewis and Clark County, drink beer from Lewis and Clark Brewery, had bison jerky with lunch, fish at the Gates of the Mountains, and live in sight of the Sleeping Giant, I love it here!

The Trail of Tears would be a good one to do here or on geographics.

@Hollylivengood

3 жыл бұрын

Good one. Say, I didn't know that not every Cherokee and Creek had to leave, they had to give up their land rights. But so much of their identity ws attached to serving their land - they believed, not that people could own land but that the land owned the people and we are obliged to serve our little spot of land - they were told they would be moved to another piece of land where they could continue on. But some stayed. I had met some here where I live who are third generation teachers, because Cherokees valued education more than the whites did at the time, they often were the only educated people in the town, and were given land to stay on so they would stay. I've met one at least, and his extended family , who have a reunion every year to celebrate keeping their little family plot all these years because of their skills. All of them are math geeks. It would be great to see a piece on some of the native efforts like that.

@hobinrood710

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. This channel is perfect for it. Simon doesn't care about politics he's gonna tell the truth, regardless of how you feel.

@kathyhenderson46

3 жыл бұрын

it would be better suited to Megaprojects as it lasted many years, setting precedent for the raping, murdering and pillaging of the lands and the culture and the native peoples

To use your favorite word Simon, Lewis ‘allegedly’ committed suicide. There’s a story there. Long story short, many people think he was murdered.

@fredlougee2807

3 жыл бұрын

"Many" people also think the Earth is flat. Doesn't make it so.

@redram5150

3 жыл бұрын

@@fredlougee2807except the shape of the earth is a matter of objective proof. Meriwether Lewis died under disputed circumstances in a very isolated part of the country long before forensics existed, let alone modern forensic technology we take for granted.

@IrishMike22

3 жыл бұрын

@@fredlougee2807 I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything but the details and circumstances surrounding his death are intriguing. Don't be afraid of a little knowledge or embarassed someone is smarter than you, educate yourself on the topic or ignore commenting out of ignorance--but in any case stop being a dick.

@billolsen4360

3 жыл бұрын

But Clark was Superman's adopted maternal grandfather.

@UnknownEntryRetype

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a job for The Casual Criminalist!

I've always been a history nut and I was telling my girlfriend about this expedition when we took our first trip "Out West" last summer. As we stood looking at Mt. Rushmore, I said "Imagine what Lewis and Clark must have thought when they saw this." Her: "*long pause.....Huh?" Me: "Yeah, when they got home they went to ole Tom Jefferson and said, "Mr. President, you won't believe it, but there's a mountain out there with your face carved into it....along with George Washington....and two weird looking guys that we've never seen before...Its a helluva thing, sir!" This is how history nerds amuse themselves.

The longest bridge in the world would be a good mega project. It connects New Orleans to the North shore, the lake Pontchartrain Causeway.

8:05 Hahaha! “Warmly welcomed” is the definition of “putting it lightly.” That dude was banging like a screen door in a hurricane. I’m surprised he had the endurance to keep up with the group. Lucky bastard.

@stuarthastie6374

Жыл бұрын

He was heap big chief to the ladies. They wanted his babies. Check out the nistory of the BGrifuna.

I had to smile the photo you have at 12 minute mark, when mentioning the Rocky Mountains, is of Moraine Lake in Alberta, Canada not along the path of the expedition.

Hey Canada! Help a fellow canadian broaden the worlds knowledge of Canada and it's people! The Rideau Canal and river system for mega/side projects and Francis Pegahmagabow for biographics! Peggy is the most skilled sniper of the Great War!

@terryarmbruster7986

3 жыл бұрын

I'm Canadian. He's done the sniper elsewhere and Rideau Canal isn't a megaproject lol or a side one. It's not that big. Only goes from Ottawa to Kingston. Isn't very wide either.

@bradymerritt7241

3 жыл бұрын

@@terryarmbruster7986 The Welland Canal would be better

@redram5150

3 жыл бұрын

Stay over at The History Guy where you belong

@Inazarab

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not Canadian but I'd be interested in that.

@TheWanderer691

3 жыл бұрын

How about the Saint Lawrance Seaway in general. That was a huge project

I'm from St. Charles, Missouri, where the corps started their journey. My dad and I used to be in a reinactment group that had a full sized keel boat and cannon for the reinactments. The cannon was stored in our garage 😂

@TinyScorpion44

3 жыл бұрын

Bet your neighbors didn't give you much trouble 😅

Clark was a master of the dead reckoning method for determining location. They were only off by 40 miles over an 8000 mile journey. In the early 1800. Most people can't even get to a Costco without a voice activated GPS nowadays.

@nathanj3114

3 жыл бұрын

That's because there minds are not in there cars when there driving.

@jamesclendon4811

3 жыл бұрын

@@nathanj3114 Quite a trick--Getting "their" and "they're" wrong three times in one sentence.

I recall a story I heard about a member of the expedition getting drunk and lost in the night. When he finally made his way back to camp he went on about this "nonsense" he found while intoxicated. How the ground bubbled, water shot into the sky and the smell of sulfer. He was dismissed as having a black out dream. It was later discovered to be part of Yellowstone. Not sure if it's true or not but it's a great little story.

@feline256

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised lol. Some of the wildlife seemed pretty crazy to east-coasters too. Like prairie dogs, wtf?

The story of the expeditions first negotiations with the Shoshone involved the coincidence of one of the Shoshone present actually being Sacagawea's brother Cameahwait who she had not seen since being kidnapped by Hidatsas (where her French husband met her). This made the necessary acquisition of horses much easier.

15:49 "Cold and damp" - Welcome to the Pacific Northwest temperate rain forest. Lewis and Clark complained about the weather a lot in their journals, IIRC.

For those whom had seen me commenting here a lot, yes I had not been successful. But I'll add another mega project suggestion to the list Benban Solar Park, Aswan High Dam, Bar Lev Line and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

AWESOME! I drove from Lewiston, Idaho to Missoula, Montana on US Highway 12 at the same time this video was uploaded! Even stopped at the Idaho- Montana Lewis and Clark Historical rest area. In a blizzard. That stretch is gorgeous! Of course, I am biased as I grew up on the Lewis and Clark Trail in the Clearwater River Valley.

You do an amazing job with presenting this videos, keep up the amazing great work!

Fun side fact: modern archeologists are able to pinpoint individual campsites used by the expedition! Due to their diets not containing much fiber, they were outfitted with "thunderclappers;" a stool softening pill that contained a huge amount of mercury. There was so much mercury being consumed and passed that their nightly latrine sites are easily detectable today.

I think you should make a video about the Suez canal to go with the current events.

@djagnew420

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/iniMk9Kyj9fIiag.html hes done one already

@coreyelder-edwards2335

3 жыл бұрын

Nah he needs to wait till they get the ship out of the canal then do a sideprojects video on the massive effort it’s going to take them lol

@zyadyassr

3 жыл бұрын

@@coreyelder-edwards2335 The ship is already out and being checked at the great bitter lake but i agree with you

@dalemartin8475

3 жыл бұрын

It is on business blaze his other channel

@djagnew420

3 жыл бұрын

@@dalemartin8475 its on geographics not business blaze

Maybe the silk road for a megaproject?

@scotthampton3846

3 жыл бұрын

That would be awesome

@danielevans5286

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t really a ‘project’ as such, it was a series of passageways used by traders

@Hexolotl00

3 жыл бұрын

I'd like this.

@danielevans5286

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hexolotl00 It’d be more of a geographics video

I really hope you made this video so you can plug it in the upcoming one about the Gateway Arch and National Park in downtown St Louis. It’s literally the tallest monument in the United States made in honor of this very event! Please cover this topic, I’m sure you’ll be interested. :)

90% of the American Indian population was wiped out from Smallpox in the 1500s. What remained were mainly smaller nomadic tribes, but the city-states that traded with the Aztecs were gone. By the time the U.S. came to be, the vast American Indian population had essentially been gone for centuries.

I’m sure Montanans prefer most people not knowing where it is. It keeps the riff-raff out.

@Eli-pf5og

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a fact!

@Deacetis1991

3 жыл бұрын

Too late, MT has been found.

The crew that survived this journey incredible!

Now you know where Idaho is!.. and even better, where Napoleon Dynamite was filmed. Gosh! Fun fact - The University of Idaho (in Moscow, ID, of all places) has been a pioneer of collegiate distant learning. Back in the day, they recorded courses and shipped VHS tapes to the students every week (with a slight processing delay time).

Very well said, and True from your closing statements

In 2005 my sisters volunteered to help with 'Lewis & Clark days' 200th anniversary at Pompeii's Pillar National Monument; which has the only known hard evidence of the expedition, with Clark carving his name into the pillar. The great-great-great (maybe more) grandson of Clark was in attendance and they got his autograph!

Amazing video we went out to Oregon last month and saw the fort out there it was really cool u could still see the stream where they would get there water and where they would dock there canoes. It was awsome

If your ever in Montana visit the Lewis and Clark caverns. Incredible cave, beautifully lit. One of the coolest places I've visited. Hidden gem forsure.

Once again, outstanding!

"Lewis & Clark, two names that sound odd w/o the other, like Lois & Clark..." 🤣 Simon, you crack me up...

I live across the street from Clark's plantation, Locust Grove, in Louisville. Love this story.

I'm sure Simon were in charge back then all the encounters would be perfectly peaceful. It's so easy to sit on the comfy soap box in the future and judge the past.

Every video is amazing

Another interesting point of historical trivia concerning the expedition that I'd hoped to hear more about; the rifles used! I've heard that they used a type of air rifle that had unexpected benefits, they were much quieter than the typical firearms of the time. Consequently while traveling through certain areas along their trip, they'd avoided the attention of some of the more war like tribes.

I bought and read Stephen Ambrose's book (same guy wrote Band of Brothers) "Undaunted Courage" twenty years ago. I've been hoping that you'd cover this for ages. Admittedly I expected it to land on GeoGraphics. It's a fantastic story and worth reading.

What the hell? No Mention of Seaman!!? The most amazing dog ever!?

I live in Lewiston, Idaho. On the other side of the Snake River is Clarkston, Washington. Named after this expedition. Have statues and historical markers all over the area.

The saddest part of this story was the Mandan. They were immediate and constant allies of the US. The Mandan village had a population of 15,000. It was one of the largest cities in North America at the time. The Lakota had recently invaded from Minnesota and had driven out the Cheyenne and were putting pressure on the Mandan, and all were under the thumb of the Blackfeet, so all but the Lakota and the Blackfeet welcomed the alliance with the strong new nation. When smallpox hit the Mandan it all but destroyed them. They couldn't flee their city because they were at war with the Lakota and Hidatsa. When their plague had ended, there were just a few and they were taken in by the Hidatsa. My third grade teacher, Sister Mary Alice's grandmother was one of the last full blooded Mandan Indians. Oh, the stories I heard from my favorite teacher ever.

Fun fact: the Expedition took very little gunpowder with them...they used it as a trade-good rather than to load their rifles. They used a recent innovation, air-rifles, to hunt and impress local warriors. A fully charged rifle could fire 6 shots in rapid succession at full power, about another dozen or so at lesser force. Detachable air-storage cylinders doubled as the rifles' shoulder-stock. It took about 20 minutes of hard work to pump up a cylinder...you kept charged spares handy. I built-in magazine/loader held 15-20 lead balls, depending on caliber. No smoke, fairly quiet, and capable of firing three lethal shots in five seconds, they were 'magic guns' to people accustomed to the smoke and thunder of muskets. They were made by Girardoni.

Current reading The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard DeVito. Thank you for adding so much to my reading adventure!

Lewis and Clark had their first big meeting with Plains indian tribes at a place in Nebraska called "Council Bluff". Both recognized the military value of the location. Later, it was the site of Fort Atkinson. The last military outpost the US built to fight the British.

Good video 👍

Part of the "like before you watch" gang

don't feel bad, many Americans would have a hard time finding Idaho, sadly

@GatorScientist

3 жыл бұрын

If you have ever been to Idaho you would realize there is not that much to find 😉

The movie Almost Heros is actually the real story of the first explorers to reach the Pacific Ocean. Elegantly portrayed by Chris Farley and Chandler Bing . Now you know, and knowings half the battle.

@chiefslinginbeef3641

3 жыл бұрын

Rainbow

@BS-ne5cr

3 жыл бұрын

GI Joe!

Cool video. Been in Oregon my whole life, right off the Old Barlow road. The original Oregon trail. Would have been pretty amazing to have seen it in those days.

The stories of Sacagawea & York are adventures, too.

Correction: The lofty ideals of "Every man is created equal" was in the Declaration of Independence and not the U.S. Constitution. The Declaration of Independence was a statement of the principles behind breaking away from England, principles we couldn't abide by immediately due to some of the colonies wanting to keep slavery. The U.S. Constitution, by contrast, is a legal document that didn't immediately enshrine into law the principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence. It took over 100 years to sync the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution with each other.

Great video! I would like to suggest to make a video about the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

Mega Project idea: The "Mining and Chemical Combine" in Zheleznogorsk, Russia. A Plutonium production plant. The entire facility was built 200 meters into the mountain, and contains 3 Nuclear Reactors (Basically the same design as РБМК, like in Chernobyl),1 АД and 2 АДЭ (АДЭ-2 provided power and heating to the workers city, Zheleznogorsk). The facility has its own railway and electric locomotive. Now the Plutonium production is stopped (since 95'), and the reactors were shut down. Now they produce MOX fuel for fast liquid metal Reactors (for now, БН-800).

At first I was angered by Simon's lack of knowledge of US geography, especially from doing so many of these "educational" shows, but then I realized that while I know England isn't just beautiful metropolitan London and the gorgeous Sherwood Forrest/One Hundred Acre Wood countryside, I can't tell you where Manchester, Brighton, Liverpool or Stratford (well, maybe Stratford-it's near Avon) is on a map. Touche.

@jaketheauroran

2 жыл бұрын

I can tell you aren't a teacher, since you'd implode when you realize half of high school graduates in the US couldn't point to Idaho on the map. In Florida, when I tell people I'm from Iowa, I've had people remember it as Ohio, the potato state.

In St Louis, under the Arch, is a museum where a large portion is dedicated to Lewis and Clark.

@JazzfulJaney

3 жыл бұрын

there's also the Lewis and Clark Boathouse Museum in historic St Charles but tbh that's probably more for schoolchildren (or if you happen to like replica boats I guess)

This would make an extraordinary film

The purchase was not "to the border of Canada". It was north to the headwaters of the Missouri (Mississippi?) River. That actually runs far into the interior of modern day Canada. Negotiations led to the modern border.

Thank you

You should check out William's older, but lesser known brother, George Rogers Clark. He was mainly the reason the original Northwest Territory was established. Therefore, opening the way for western expansion and the possibility of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Read numerous books on this, enjoyed them all.Durham lad.

Really enjoy your videos! Note graphics glitch @11:33

Love these videos> You should consider doing a video on the Goodyear Blimp Hanger, in Akron Ohio. The Goodyear Airdock is a construction and storage airship hangar in Akron, Ohio. At its completion in 1929, it was the largest building in the world without interior supports. I grew up in Akron, and it was always a fascinating sight to behold. Oh, and as a note, it is at least an urban legend around Akron that the Airdock is so big that it had it's own weather system inside - you could get a rain storm inside and clear skies outside. Not sure if that was actually true, but made for interesting stories. ;)

my wife and i drove the L&C trail summer of 1992. well worth the trip

Simon, Another (American) megaproject that's well worth your time is the Transcontinental Railroad. It's a remarkable story. The Transcontinental Railroad needed capital infusions that couldn't have been financed without the invention of the modern corporation and the modern banking system. It couldn't have happened without a large supply of experienced railroad construction engineers (thank you, American Civil War generals). On and on, everything that the Transcontinental Railroad needed in order to be built was the birth of 20th Century manufacturing, banking, and corporate structures. It's also two parallel stories: One, about the process that moved east to west, the other about the process that moved west to east.

My grandmother had traced our family roots back to England in 2006. Turns out we’re distant cousins of William clark by his brother, john clark. Its also how we found out we have some Native American dna in us too. Now we don’t claim to be natives by any means, but It’s kinda cool to see your heritage intertwined with your countries history.

Hey Simon, I'd love to see a video on Simon's Bucket List.

Lewis and Clark were beaten across North America by Scotsman Alexander MacKenzie. Leaving Montreal in 1778 looking for the Pacific he took a wrong turn and reached the Arctic at the mouth of the river bearing his name in 1789. Returning to UK to study navigation he returned to Montreal and left Fort Chipewyan in what is now northeaster Alberta in October 1792. He left for the Pacific reaching the west coast of what is now British Columbia at the mouth of the Bella Coola River in July 1793.

Great, thanks. The L&C journals are really worth reading. BTW, little correction: Blackfoot people, not pluralized into Blackfeet.

I actually live in a valley they passed through on their expedition which has a river named after Clark. I also went to a school and a set of caverns named after them. It really doesnt get more patriotic then that.

"Blanket Diplomacy with every tribe" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The expedition traveled the entire route giving everything they laid eyes on an English name and Latin taxonomy without ever once asking the native peoples they encountered if they had a name for whatever it was they found. It was later learned that, yes, the natives had already named everything from the highest peaks to the tiniest wildflowers, because that's what people do, they name everything in their environment. The group was also dumbfounded by the number of horses the Nez Perce nation had under their control. Great herds of them.

@feline256

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder how much knowledge of the practical uses of flora & fauna never ended up being recorded/translated...

@RK-cj4oc

2 жыл бұрын

Jup and they named it for the USA. Thank God. Alot better than having those Indian weird ass names be forced on the new true people of America from Europe.

There are many museums and parks along their route. Of particular note are the replicas of the long boats the men built. Incredible feats of engineering.

All we really got for the purchase was New Orleans and St. Loius. The rest was just lines on a map. This expedition was like exploring Mars today.

My great uncle Antoine Le Claire was actually an interpretor for William Clark and knew many of the indigenous tribes languages

Wow, that ending left plenty to be desired..... specifically because of how crazy the story gets surrounding the "suicide" you mentioned briefly.

@davidstockburger4089

3 жыл бұрын

It gets even crazier. He didn't just shoot himself, he sliced himself with a razor after shooting himself in the head and bled out.

@IrishMike22

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidstockburger4089 I've only heard the barely scratched surface as I understand it. The story needs the Simon treatment.

Don't feel bad, as an American this video is an education for me as well. There are a few things here that I didn't know.

My Mama told me, no matter what they tell you at school. It was American British people who invented the Alphabet and Government and even Democracy. A matter of fact. All the Educational Resources all comes from American British people. My Mama was born in Britain and she's really really smart, she can read the Alphabet.