Lewis and Clark | The Long Way Home | 3
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Captain Lewis and the Chinooks
Captain lewis came within a whisker of raising a chinook village after the theft of a robe and saddle from scagoea's french canadian husband, tusson charbana. With supplies running out and game scarce, they needed goods to trade for food. The corps had superior weapons, but they were vastly outnumbered. So they focused on trying to get past the chanook and back to the nez purse who had saved them when they emerged half starved from the mountains the year before. They encountered one of their old friends, chief tedwarsky,. He offered to lead the corps to the current location of chief twisted hair, who had been looking after the
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