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and the Buffalo sent you in there and it's really um soft and flexible when they take it out of buffo so they would just take it peel it off in strands and literally make sewing threads they could make um they use it in thicker quantities to lash tools together would they let it dry first or would they they pull it off as when it's still wet it still wet or you hopefully soak this and get it soft enough again to okay but we haven't tried that I've tried about everything else but I haven't tried that one yet so it was used for a variety wind was coming from West so they weren't able to use the sail too often but uh that would be another way to propel it now there's a rope up there in the front too they would use that rope to pull that would be the have to walk on the shore there wasn't much of a Shore there actually I left in the now the Missouri River was not very back then so they were able to do it most places like that but this boat was very very heavy and it was loaded with about 15 so imagine trying to pull something like that up they had about 20 22 guys out there and P on that Ro so to many people walk up the M what they were doing that's what they do they were walking up carrying their possessions behind on the boat pretty pretty tough guys back there like that it's just like what yeah canas is it's like this roof that's um it's thin and it looks kind of stringy almost it looks like a radish yeah it almost looks like a radish or some people call it know to yeah yeah that the same thing wild carrot is not the same as K but it looks yeah and so they would tradition of her upbringing within the N Pur tribe and some of her experiences growing up so please welcome Mary tble good afternoon sight with a sighting vein once you got that thing lined up exactly the way you want it to go and again you're going to have it up on the tripod or up on the shakeup staff and then you're going to sight through the siding vein and in the sighting veins there are holes and then there's slits below that so once you've got it kind of rough figured out with the holes then you slide your eye down and you line it up with the split and then you get that much better direction as you go along so this team had to move a lot slower yep L and Clark didn't measure their way all the way across the continent with this kind of accuracy and what what we like to say is that the the public land surveyors are following in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark as they've gone across the continent now we've got Lewis and or we've got the public land surveyors the general land office surveyors another name for the same thing kind of filling in the rest of the map L Clark just taken that one route across the continent where now we're going to say we want to measure out the rest of it and the reason for all of this is to fulfill what Thomas Jefferson had in mind and that is to get as he put it the yman farmer out on the left you have a rough idea how far off Clark were with their rough maps and then fin did miles miles the final map which um gets published in I believe it's 1814 with the the first set of journals um that yeah that map has been compared with a modern map so it comes out to be about 40 Mi off now you know part of that is the accuracy of the the width of the line I mean a line on a map of that scale you know could be you know 40 Mi wide all by itself so but they're incredibly accurate and it it really comes from two places one is um this is a replica of Captain Captain Clark's Compass the one he carried with him we we know it because it's one of the few pieces that actually survived the ls and Clark um Voyage as they came back to St Louis in 1806 all their equipment that they had left became Surplus government property it was auctioned off oh God but the compass Clark's Compass was his own personal Compass so he kept that compass and it's now the original was now expected to get back it's phenomenal isn't it in fact that one poster we have we have one at pompy's Pillar the uh the one at the top there oh yes and it shows a a photo of his uh where he his name nice that's where leis and three others come out over Lim High Pass they were an advanced part looking for the way across a disappointing day though row after row of mountains yeah yeah okay on the well that in this corner we get from the Mand Indians one of the 12 varieties that they perpetuate from the old store of genetic seed stocks and it's kind they Grind from formul so you can grind it back and forth just like that you got to work in the kitchen more here you I a Volcan CRA kind of a b fish it has to be we covered this didn't open quite a while you got one in the shirt origal tail this is a relatively large here check out the in the Joby this is about 300 lb jly bear this is over a th000 so quite a bit of difference does the weight correspond directly to like how tall they stand oh yeah how much mass they did like that what is it Boon and Crocket scale right do they measure the height of them set no it's this this print that's rting one does kind of the same things that I are you an archaeologist for the PM then h no story okay there is there are jobs for his history majors not very many I have a degree in history so yeah for 6 years I I was a teacher before that so I I used my degree obviously but you know this is him when he was one of that that party of of four men who first entered Idaho uh with me my blanket is kind of buried underneath my stuff over there he would have had a blanket along also but uh so it's was like just like a little mini Expedition they took off from the main group kind of thing yes yep set out on foot cuz the bullets were going so slow at that time so he was the guy who carried the provisions that me he was the cook and so he would have had a h sack you know he had 2 lbs of flour about the same of of meal I don't think he had necessarily any of this stuff but it's just kind of interesting I just wanted to have it on display anyway is it's like the hard yeah that time they were calling it biscuit but it's the same thing it's whole wheight flour butter and water mix it up roll it out and then bake it and that stuff will keep for a long long time it's about 14 months old that's a loaf of sugar oh and what do you do you you shave it off you can shave it off or they have little you pinch some off like that yeah and it has a lot of molasses in it so it's really much better for you than just plain white sugar and that's how tea used to come that's black tea oh wow it's okay oh sure where do you get this now there's a company several companies online that sell reenactor supplies all stuff so then what you do is just cut off a piece too sure you can scrape some off or you can cut off a piece and it's it's proc it's chopped very finely so it's almost more of a powder than it is a leaf and at that time they were issuing a 69 caliber must that's the big one that's the big musket ball yes they all handmade so they could be interchangeable no these weren't these were made by by by Factory it's called the 1795 contract model it actually was just a copy of a musket that was made in France about 30 years that's what I mean cuz the French one could take like they could take all the they move the moving Parts on any rifle and change out with another one and like so they did that so like for the core so they all had you know rifle B they could just kind of how it yes and they did have one good gunsmith along them and he had to get Innova a few times to repair guns but he was able to and and so they carried a cartridge box rather than just you know a Powder Horn with with a separate pouch of of balls oh so they have like yeah and you know I don't know what these look like but a friend of mine made up some cartridges for me it's just each cartridge was paper and it had just enough powder to to Prim the pan to pour the rest down the barrel and then the ball went down the barrel um that was enough for one round okay so you have to get out your Powder Horn and dump it out you just the end of right right but but here's the quandry okay now I'm ready to reload but what do I do so this this gives me to a rule that the Army had at that time regulation if you wanted to be in the Army you had to have at least two teeth and they had to be opposite each other you see where I'm headed yeah and then you pour some on that and then you pour the dress down there right Tamp it in with the ram rod and then you're ready to to shoot around if you were if you were really good you should be able to get off four rounds a minute one every 15 seconds uh and they also had a bayonet though in case uh 15 seconds uh wasn't enough time that's the biggest chipmunk I've ever seen that's a big chipmunk you want lunch yeah they were having a hard time you got sear running now I did I proba I didn't I know I didn't hit you with anything they would send out Hunters along the shoreline and they could range out in front of the core as they were moving up shootting animals and hang them up and they would actually come along and together and they were only moving 5 to 6 M an hour I mean 5 to 6 miles a day and on the way back they couldn't do it because they were averaging up to 70 m a day on the way back they got into the current the way they so they couldn't put Hunters out cuz they run off and leaving down stream so to speak mhm so they actually had to stop three or 4 days at a time send Hunters out and bring in the food and and eat a couple of days jerk the meat and then they get back in the canoes and off up but they were they were not doing too well on the way back that's whenever Captain uh Lewis got shot is actually one of the hunting trips by the beach of those and we still use these today so they would have put their PL here wouldt soaked put it all in she pressed it together and kept it nice and tight until the plants dried out and when they dried out they had a perfect specimen of the plant that they looked at remember you kids Uncle Ryan got you one of those you have that little plant press with piece of wood terrible uh back side right there on the this is the back away from that's the back side because uh wood never I that backbody told anything my uncle always told yeah pretty old bottom around mixure of mercury you know the stuff in thermometers that goes up and down to tell you the temperature and jalop which is a plant root and it's held together with breadcrumbs as a binding agor and if you're given one of Dr Rush's pills you'd have to hurry to the bathroom because in less than 10 minutes you'd be cleared out to the extent that just liquid's coming out also to make you go to the bathroom they have salt peter and if they're out of salt peter they could give you gunpowder because salt Peter's one of the ingredients in gunpowder what is that what's that sponge thing well it's just a sponge for cleaning wounds now do you have sponges at home yeah Is this different yeah how's it different because it's all at holes has like holes what are the sponges like that you have at home they're like they're rough they have holes in them they like and they're Square you see what you have are artificial sponges that they make out of plastics this is a real sponge it used to live at the bottom of the sea little microbes and bacteria would swim by and get caught up in all the nooks and crannies and it would eat them this used to be a living animal this doesn't have any eyes you ever see an animal without eyes you have what um and I hauled this out and it was overcast and I said to the students what can I do with oh you make a fire I one of it's overcat it's it's easier to get a flashlamp oh oh good good good now from North Dakota you get to say Chic now this woman had a child and think things really didn't change a whole lot in child they put light cord on it yeah changed a lot in the grass there huh in the grass in the grass that's my coffee cup oh coffee my coffee funny looking coffee cup isn't it then I can put it on my belt here and I got my coffee cup handy when next time I want made out of a some kind of out of a buffalo horn buffalo horn this what is that blue what's that blue stuff what do you think that blue stuff is huh what do you think yeah if I took if I wanted to make a nice long straight Str line see I would take this string and I would lay it on there like that listen listen like that hang on the end of itang on right on the end of it hold it hang on hang on real tight hold down here hold it down there you see real tight my truck is is wet you see the line e