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NOVEMBER 2017 VOL 43 NO 4 LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION The 1812 Issue: • Jay Buckley on Clark's Impossible Task • William Foley on the New Madrid Earthquakes • Interview with Elliott West—Part Two In this Issue: Message from the President ....................................................3 Lewis and Clark Roundup .......................................................6 Clark’s Impossible Task: The Sentimental Imperialist and the War of 1812 .............................................................8 By Jay Buckley Clark and Teton Sioux by James Ayers, p. 8 Turbulence and Terror: The New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812 ....................................................23 By William Foley Earthquakes by William Foley, p. 23 The WPO Interview: Dr. Elliott West, Part 2 ...............26 Dr. Elliott West, p. 26 Letters .................................................................................32 Future Issues: WPO intends to publish themed Review: issues on the forts of the Lewis and Clark Trail; filmic treatments of Lewis & Clark, including Havens, Scenes of Visionary Enchantment ................................33 documentaries; the fate of other explorers; Sacagawea; the Nine Young Men from Kentucky. If you are interested in contributing on these subjects, please let editor Clay Jenkinson know. Covers - Front: Painting of William Clark by John Wesley Jarvis (ca. 1810). Courtesy Missouri Historical Society. Back: Painting of Andrew Jackson returning to Tennessee after the Battle of New Orleans by Michael Haynes. We Proceeded On welcomes submissions of articles, proposals, inquiries, and letters. Writer’s guidelines are available by request and can be found on our website, lewisandclark.org. Submissions should be sent to Clay S. Jenkinson, 1324 Golden Eagle Lane, Bismarck, North Dakota 58503, or by email to [email protected]. 701-202-6751 The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 3434, Great Falls, MT 59403 406-454-1234 / 1-888-701-3434 November 2017 Membership Information Fax: 406-727-3158 Volume 43, Number 4 Membership in the Lewis and Clark Trail www.lewisandclark.org We Proceeded On is the official publication Heritage Foundation, Inc. is open to the public. 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Assistant Washington, DC Lincoln, NE Shelly Kath, Library Technician James Holmberg Philippa Newfield Lora Helman, Accountant Louisville, KY San Francisco, CA Alice Kestler, Archives Technician Erin Stypulkoski, Ad Sales Manager The views and opinions expressed in articles and features published in We Proceeded On BACK ISSUES (1974–current) are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Lewis All back issues of our quarterly historical and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, its officers and board, or staff. journal are available. Some of the older We Proceeded On is published four times a issues are copier reproductions. Orders for year in February, May, August, and November a collection of all back issues receive a 30 by Washington State University Press in Pullman, Washington, for the Lewis and percent discount. Order your missing issues Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, P.O. Box to complete your set. Call 1-888-701-3434, 3434, Great Falls, Montana 59403. Current issue: November 2017, volume 43, No. 4, mail your request to P.O. Box 3434, ISSN 02275-6706 Great Falls, MT 59403, or order at [email protected]. Incorporated in 1969 under Missouri General Not-For-Profit $10 originals or cds Corporation act. IRS Exemption Certificate No. 501(c)3, $4 shipping & handling Identification No. 510187715. 2 We Proceeded On E Volume 43, Number 4 A Message from the President where he was an adjunct assistant pro- ers could use in developing interdisci- fessor of history, director of the Insti- plinary learning activities for their own tute for Local and Oral History, and classrooms. special assistant to the vice chancellor The program included field trips for academic affairs, Kramer realized to the Filson Historical Society, Falls about ten years ago that, if the teach- of the Ohio State Park, and Locust ers and school children of southern Grove, the last home of George Rog- Indiana’s Falls of the Ohio region and ers Clark. There were lectures by Phillip Gordon and President Philippa Newfield Louisville, Kentucky, were to know IUS faculty members and community the role their area played in the saga of experts on geography, geology, flora It will be the teachers and their stu- Lewis and Clark, then he had to make and fauna, medicine, and surveying. dents who will carry the story of Lewis it happen by designing course work The program also attracted visiting and Clark forward and ensure the pres- and curricula for them. Lewis and Clark scholars Jay Buckley, ervation of their trail. The fate of our With the pedagogical support of Dr. Gary Moulton, Dark Rain Thom, and collective memory of one of the most Claudia Crump, professor emeritus of Lorna Hainesworth. In its entirety, the consequential events in American his- elementary education and co-founder program was well received by partici- tory and its contemporary evidence of the Center for Cultural Resources pants and instructors alike. upon our landscape is in their hands. (on whose board Kramer served), the In keeping with this realization, the institutional support of the deans of Student Field Investigation National Park Service (NPS) included the Schools of Education and Social Program Sciences, and financial assistance from education as part of its mission from On the student side of the equa- the Indiana Lewis and Clark Expedi- the outset. The National Park Cen- tion, Jay Russell of the Lewis and tion Commission, Kramer organized tennial Act of 2016 codified the edu- Clark Foundation in Great Falls, MT, the IUS Lewis and Clark Summer cational aspect of the NPS’s existing developed a science-based Field Inves- Institute. The institute was conducted mission into the US Code of Federal tigation program geared to seventh in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012. Regulations. graders, entitled “Trail Stewardship: Students Explore in the Footsteps of IUS Lewis and Clark Summer Teacher Training Lewis and Clark.” Jay’s idea was to Institute Fortunately, there have been for- get the students out on the Lewis and ward-thinking educators, in keeping Although the curriculum addressed Clark National Historic Trail to per- with the NPS’s emphasis on education, the entire expedition, it focused on form measurements and make obser- who have recognized the need for an topics related to the Falls of the Ohio vations about the state of the trail and organized approach to training teach- region, including slavery on the fron- the health of the waters of the Mis- ers about the Lewis and Clark Expe- tier, the significance of the Clark fam- souri River. In so doing, the students dition. They have organized programs ily, and the recruitment, organization, acquired an appreciation of scientific for elementary and high school teach- and training of the initial members methodology, learned more of the ers and developed curricula for imple- of the Corps of Discovery in Clarks- Lewis and Clark story, and actively mentation in their classrooms.
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