Thank you, Sarah Kaplan! A very interesting and wonderfully well written story. To bad American Historian Stephen E. Ambrose isn't still with us. This would be a great subject matter for him to biographer on. Like he did in the book Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. I found it amazing how he took all those very tedious and boring Corps of Discovery journals.  Turning them into one of the best books, I had ever read. Such a fascinating time period in our American history. I truly hope some great author picks this one up.