Craig Fehrman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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There was something personal to this relationship.
And so on the way back, Lewis is like, I'm going to do a side mission.
I'm going to disobey the president because if I can find that this river goes far enough north, then the Louisiana Purchase is actually going to be hundreds of thousands of miles bigger.
And so he goes up there trying to get that reading.
The clouds don't cooperate, so he can't get the reading.
Then he runs into the Blackfoot people and has this huge blowup that impacts relations between the Blackfoot and the Americans for decades to come, which that's how history works, right?
Like you think you're going to do something, and then something else happens.
Sometimes it's amazing.
Sometimes it's a battle where a person dies.
Right.
Exactly.
So I like in my book,
you've got, you know, Jefferson is like the Churchill, right?
Like that's the national motivation if we're going to do the World War II analogy.
But my book is almost all at the platoon level.
Like what I always tell people is I tried as a writer to put you in the canoe, but I think it's really important to put you in different canoes because like even Lewis and Clark, best friends, both grew up in the same state, both in the army, they had really different views about some issues.
And so I felt like my job was to really show what each person saw.
So the book
If anybody's read Game of Thrones, you know how like the chapters rotate in points of view.
Like one chapter, you're going to get a king's point of view.
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