epic battle. so this great voyage of the lewis and clark expedition will be quite significant and important. a few years ago the atlantic monthly did a survey of the top 100 most influential figures in american history. and lewis and clark make the list at 70. and what i find interesting is they re the only names on the entire list where they re listed together. so it s almost like they re inseparable. and the smithsonian did one just five years ago on the hundred most significant americans, and meriwether lewis and william clark were hooked together. and sacagawea who accompanied the expedition also made it. so this young teenage shoshone woman was considered one of the most 100 most significant americans. there is an impression across the united states that lewis and clark expedition was significant and that the people that went along are important for our country s history. today we re going to discuss the expedition and three main facets. we re going to look at it as the
this class was taught online due to the coronavirus pandemic, and brigham young university provided the video. so today we re going to be looking at the lewis and clark expedition and discussing some of the ramifications of this most important expedition. some people have classified the lewis and clark expedition and compared it to the odyssey of the greek tragedies, just like the civil war is sometimes seen as america s iliad of that great epic battle. so this great voyage of the lewis and clark expedition will be quite significant and important. a few years ago the atlantic monthly did a survey of the top 100 most influential figures in american history. and lewis and clark make the list at 70. and what i find interesting is they re the only names on the entire list where they re listed together. so it s almost like they re inseparable. and the smithsonian did one just five years ago on the hundred most significant americans, and meriwether lewis and william clark were ho
as america s iliad of that great epic battle. so this great voyage of the lewis and clark expedition will be quite significant and important. a few years ago the atlantic monthly did a survey of the top 100 most influential figures in american history. and lewis and clark make the list at 70. and what i find interesting is they re the only names on the entire list where they re listed together. so it s almost like they re inseparable. and the smithsonian did one just five years ago on the hundred most significant americans, and merriweather lewis and clark were hooked together. and sacagawea who accompanied the expedition also made it. so this young teenage shishone woman was considered one of the most 100 most significant americans. there is an impression across the united states that lewis and clark expedition was significant and that the people that went along are important for our country s history. today we re going to discuss the expedition and three main facets. we re
would have marched out of columbus wearing before they changed into regular confederate uniforms. it s also worth noting that before the war officially began fort sumter in april 16 1861, the columbus guards were invited to be the bodyguard of jefferson davis when he was inaugurated as the confederacy s first and only president. marched to montgomery, alabama, wearing these red jackets, where they were photographed and talked about in many newspapers across the south. portiontanding in the of the legacy gallery the details columbus s long history. columbus was founded as a city in 1828 and its first mill was founded the same year. the object we are looking at currently is a terry towel loom that was used at the mill here in columbus. this loom would have been used throughout the 1980 s and still has fabric on it. you can see the various stages just from the basic cloth all the way to the finished terry towel product. in addition to mass production, the mill had a company sto
explorer. have for as long as people lived here, pike s peak has been a marketing tool, and we have used it to help identify this location. pikes peak protrudes out onto the eastern plains. as wethe first 14-er, call it, the first 14,000-foot mountain when you are coming west across the plains towards denver, and that is a beacon, in many ways, for people traveling towards the mountains. i remember many times, growing up in the midwest, coming to colorado and know when you re almost there when you start to the distance.k in you can see it a hundred or more and it seems here, to pull you in as you re coming west. now, we are at crystal reservoir on the pike s peak highway. we are about 9500 feet in and perhaps one of the best views in the world. in 1770 nine, when thomas jefferson and others were declaring independence on the east coast, this area was , and inby the spanish 1770 nine, spanish colonial forces came within a few miles of where we are now, exploring the region and