Ep. 346: Sex and Suicide on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
The MeatEater Podcast
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Jefferson, He'd Been Playing This for 20 Years.
Thomas jefferson and George clark were sent by Louisiana to investigate a new territory the united states had just acquired. Jefferson was thinking about doing an expedition across american west, but his friend John Ledyard suggested he do it himself. The story is that he was going to cross the baring sea, land in alaska, and then work his way backwarde master and unighte a sail rightt. At that time, a catherine refused to give him sion to see zar or tzarina - instead of a tzar have the empress, a cast hero.
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