NEWSLETTER OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION MARCH 2019 1 “Return to St. Louis” for the LCTHF’s 51st Annual Meeting from September 21 to 25, 2019. As we NEWSLETTER OF THE LEWIS & CLARK TRAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION look back on the 50 years since our foundation’s incorporation in Missouri on February 11, 1969, we will honor the activities and individuals who have shaped the LCTHF 51st Annual Meeting to LCTHF. To accomplish this, we would like to hear your be in St Louis, MO, September thoughts and your stories. What do you consider the most 21 to 25, 2019 significant events and activities during the organization’s fifty-year history? When did you first attend an annual meeting? What Lewis and Clark activity had the most profound impact on you? Karen Goering, Missouri Historical st Society; Robert Moore Jr, NPS Gateway Please email or send your thoughts to LCTHF’s 51 Annual Meeting; c/o Karen Goering; Missouri Arch National Park; and Mike Venso, St Historical Society; PO Box 775460; St Louis, MO 63177, or email [email protected] Louis County Parks, are planning the meeting hosted by the Missouri History In commemorating the 50th anniversary of the LCTHF, we will examine how the telling of the Lewis Museum. There will be tours to the new and Clark story has changed over time, examine current scholarship within the field, participate in Gateway Arch National Park Museum, Missouri Historical Society Library and panels about what it means to be “Keepers of the Story and Stewards of the Trail,” and hear from Research Center, Bellefontaine and Moulton Lecturer John Logan Allen. There are also unique activities in store: learn about Calvary Cemeteries, St. Charles, Camp background research for the Gateway Arch’s new exhibits from the curator and historian; have a River Dubois, and Cahokia, IL. The behind-the-scenes experience with Lewis and Clark artifacts at Ride Your Bike To Our 51st meeting hotel is the Drury Inn and the Missouri Historical Society; revisit “Lewis and Clark through Suites in Forest Park at 2111 Sulphur Annual Meeting! Join Larry Ave, St Louis, MO. Rates for two queens, Indian Eyes” with tribal scholars; take a chartered cruise to the Epstein and his bicycling $139/night; suite, $169/night including confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and pass buddies on a ride on Missouri’s breakfast, evening food and beverage through the massive Mississippi lock system to understand the Katy Trail State Park from service, WiFi, and parking. Submitted by changes to the river system since the time of Lewis and Clark. September 16 to 20, 2019, just Karen Goering before the LCTHF's 51th Annual The early-bird registration for LCTHF members of $375, valid Meeting in St. Louis. We will ride until July 31, 2019, includes four lunches, two banquets, daily from Clinton, MO, to historic St transportation, evening activities, and field trips. Online Charles on the route of the registration is available at www.lewisandclark.org. Book your Missouri-Kansas-Texas RR along the Missouri River, which conference hotel rooms now at Drury Inn & Suites Forest Park follows the Corps of Discovery (2 Queen Beds $139 or Suites $169) by calling 800-325-0720 route across Missouri. We will (group code 2312997) or visiting stay in local B&Bs and have https://www.druryhotels.com/bookandstay/newreservation/? vehicle support. Please go groupno=2312997. Conference rates include daily hot to https://bikekatytrail.com for breakfast, evening receptions, WiFi, and free parking. Please go more information or email Larry to the following video from Explore St Louis to whet your at [email protected] or appetite: https://explorestlouis.com/adayinstlouis/ 406-949-2277. 2 THE ORDERLY REPORT March 2019 Inside This Issue: The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation extends best wishes to Bob Clark on his Bob Clark Retires 2 retirement as Editor-in-Chief of Washington Remembering Donal Wilkinson 3 State University (WSU) Press. Bob also served as editor of We Proceeded On. Both editor and historian, Bob Summer Events 3 brought his own sense of style and fairness to We Proceeded Scottsdale Regional Meeting 4 On while shepherding the journal through the publication process at WSU Press. Serving as an editor is no easy task: th A 50 Birthday Present 4 although some authors wrote with flair and polish from years New L & C Exhibit in Yankton 5 of experience as historians, naturalists, authors, and editors, others were new to the LCTHF's high standards and the ORC Adopts-a-Bison 5 concepts of journal quotes, footnotes, and references. Each Barney Lambert’s Journey 6 article deemed “worthy of consideration” then required Moulton’s Necklace 7 White Cliffs Canoe Trip 2019 7 Charlottesville in 2020 8 Board of Directors Lou Ritten, President Jim Sayce, Vice President Yvonne Kean, Treasurer Jane Knox, Secretary Philippa Newfield, Immediate Past President Bud Clark Chuck Crase LCTHF members Steve Lee, Laurie Brown, John Fisher, Darrell Russell, and Lee EbelinG Charles Clizer present Bob Clark with a Spanish mill dollar beaded Lucy Ednie necklace made by John Fisher in appreciation for his service as WPO editor Karen GoerinG at Bob’s retirement party on January 15, 2019, in Pullman, WA. MarGaret Gorski editing and illustrations. Once published, some articles met Barbara Kubik with acclaim and praise. Others did not, and Bob accepted the Mike Loesch praise and the criticism with equal aplomb. Thank you Bob . Jerry Wilson for your work on behalf of the LCTHF, for your guidance to a new group of scholars, historians, and story tellers, for allowing the Editorial Advisory Board to work closely with you, and for smoothing the transition to our new editor Clay Jenkinson. Submitted by Barb Kubik The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation mourns the loss of former Board members Darold Jackson and The new Lewis and Clark exhibit at the Mark Nelezen. Our thoughts and prayers go out to their Dakota Territorial Museum in Yankton, SD (see page 5). families. May their memories be for a blessing for us all. NEWSLETTER OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION MARCH 2019 3 A Special Remembrance. The LCTHF lost a good friend with the passing of Donal Wilkinson, 54, on December 4, 2018, at his home on the Rose Creek Nature Preserve in Pullman, WA. Donal showed up at our Hog Heaven Muzzleloaders group (Eastern WA and Northern ID) about eight years ago and immediately became an active member bringing Boy Scout groups to our rendezvous events. A few years ago his scouts appeared in Dr. David Peck's Donal Wilkinson aboard the Portland Spirit near the Astoria-Megler video production of "Or Perish in the Bridge at the LCTHF’s 50th Annual Meeting. Photo by John Montague Attempt.” Donal quickly became interested in my medical presentations and I saw in him a replacement for me in the fourth grade Rendezvous for Lewiston schools. He also became a favorite of the Benton City Schools Environmental Week at Camp Wooten along the Tucannon River where he taught Fur-Trade era skills to middle school students. Last fall Donal attended the Fur Trade Symposium in Bismarck, ND, and helped me display and discuss over 100 medicines, many of which he had worked with me to bottle and label. I had health issues and was unable to attend the LCTHF's 50th Annual Meeting. In my stead, Donal presented my illustrated talk on the "Medals and Money of the Lewis and Clark Era" and by all reports did an outstanding job. He was looking forward to contributing short "Kids Korner" articles to WPO when unknown events caused him to take his own life. He gave so much of himself to so many others. Here in Hog Heaven Country we are all devastated by the loss. Submitted by John Fisher Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Activities are scheduled this summer to commemorate events that enabled the captains to work together on their mission of discovery. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in Harpers Ferry, WV, will celebrate its 75th anniversary on June 28 to 30, 2019. This anniversary is of importance to the Eastern Legacy part of the expedition as Lewis obtained many items from the Harpers Ferry Arsenal and Armory. The Harpers Ferry Park Association has scheduled many events including musical performances, living history presentations, and special guided hikes. Be sure to spend time at the Meriwether Lewis Museum and the Meriwether Lewis at Harpers Ferry Trail. The commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Fallen Timbers will take place from August 16 to 20, 2019, in the Toledo/Maumee, Ohio, area. Recall that William Clark was very Wooden railroad trestle at Harpers much involved in actions leading up to the battle and the battle Ferry National Historical Park itself. Submitted by Jerry Wilson 4 THE ORDERLY REPORT March 2019 Regional Meeting scheduled in the Lewis and Clark and other western art, Phoenix, AZ, area on April 6, 7, 8, starting on the afternoon of Saturday April 6, and proceeding on past the evening meal. The 2019. Please join us for the LCTHF Board meeting headquarters hotel is the Drury Inn meeting on April 6 in Scottsdale. We will also and Suites Phoenix Chandler Fashion Center be touring western and Indian art museums, in Chandler, AZ (480-899-8100; LCTHF historic monuments, and Gila Bend and the discount is available until March 14, 2019). Painted Rock Petroglyph Site, where LCTHF members helped to place an informational For more information email Lou Ritten at panel dedicated to Jean Baptiste [email protected] or call 708-354-7778.