Today really was a driving day, with off and on rain. We went from Decatur/Forsyth, IL to Cleveland/Shaker Heights, OH.
Sunday, June 20, 2021
Happy Father's Day! A day spent with Brynne and her menagerie: Gus (dog) and Randy (cat), Boris and Roger (cockatiels).
Monday, June 21, 2021
Happy 91st birthday to Yuriko T, whom we were able to visit on her birthday, near Buffalo, NY.
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| Tamiko, Mom ("What's a selfie?"), and Kent |
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
The last leg towards home. Stopped at the Cornell Botanic Gardens in Ithaca, NY (reciprocity with Tyler Arboretum, but there is no admission at Cornell!).
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| Gravel path in the "natural area" of the Mundy Wildflower Garden |
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| Anemone virginiana/Tall Thimbleweed |
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| Stylophorum diphllum/Celandine Wood Poppy |
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| Celandine Wood Poppy seeds |
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| Rubus odoratus/Flowering Raspberry (KSS) |
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| Diervilla lonicera/Bush Honeysuckle (KSS) |
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| Fall Creek that winds through the Cornell University campus empties into Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes |
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| Penstemon digitalis/Foxglove Beardtongue (KSS) |
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| Erigeron sp/Fleabane |
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| Ligustrum sinense/Chinese Privet (is an invasive in the southern United States) |
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| Blephilia ciliata/Downy Wood-mint (KSS) |
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| Rosa virginiana/Virginia Rose (KSS) |
The main Lewis & Clark Trail trip is done, but we still have to follow some of the specimens that were sent to Monticello, home of President Thomas Jefferson! Our meandering route took us over 10,507 miles, from Media, PA back to Media, PA. William Clark estimated the expedition traveled 4,162 miles from the mouth of the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, thus it is likely they traveled over 8,000 miles from St Louis and back to St Louis.
What happened afterwards?
Meriwether Lewis was appointed governor of the Louisiana Territory. On a trip to Washington, DC in October 1809, he was found shot in the head and gut, and died of his injuries, at age 35. It is still unknown whether Lewis committed suicide or was murdered. Lewis never married and had no descendants.
William Clark was appointed as United States agent for Indian Affairs, and in 1813 as governor of the Missouri Territory. Clark was married twice and had eight children; the oldest son was named Meriwether Lewis Clark. William Clark died at age 68.
Sakagawea and Touissant Charbonneau returned to live with the Hidatsa Nation, and she had a baby girl about 1812. It was reported that Sakagawea died of putrid fever late in 1812. Charbonneau either died in an Indian attack in 1813, or lived to be 76. Either way, in 1813 his two children were signed over to William Clark as their guardian. Later there were reports of a woman who lived with the Comanches, and then returned to a Shoshone village with her sons Bazil and Baptiste before she died in 1884. This woman was said to have traveled with white men and possessed a Peace Medal.
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau lived with William Clark who sponsored his education. At age 18 he met Duke Friedrich Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg who was traveling through the United States. Jean Baptiste was invited to return to Germany with the duke, and lived there for six years. Upon his return to St Louis, Jean Baptiste took on various roles, as fur trapper, trader, guide, military scout, and gold miner. He was even appointed mayor of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in California in 1847, but resigned after a year because it was said due to his heritage, others thought him biased in relations with the indigenous people. Jean Baptiste died at age 61, after becoming ill on a stagecoach trip in Oregon.
York, the slave of William Clark, who during the expedition experienced freedoms and equalities he would have otherwise not known, returned as a slave to William Clark. Clark hired out York to Kentucky where York could be closer to is wife. Ten years after the expedition, Clark finally freed York, who went into business for himself. He died in 1832 of cholera.
Seaman, the Newfoundland dog belonging to Meriwether Lewis, by all accounts survived the expedition and returned to St Louis. After that there is no more mention of the dog.
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