Ep. 346: Sex and Suicide on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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York, He Wavered, or Did You Wave It?
There was a belief among some of these different tribes that certain medicine, certain spiritual powers could be transferred from one person to the next. York was unique in that sense, right? O, it was. I mean, even te the members, other members of the expedition, because they were white. Yo, that was something that was part of this mistake. It sounds pretty risky. But it was. A very accepted situation where when lewis and clark met with the the titaan lacoda, they were offered women. And soa, there's nothing in the journalst that indicate at any time that lewis or clark engaged in thes, thes kind of
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