Craig Fehrman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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And I don't mean as like one of the people pitching the show, I mean as one of the sharks.
Because he was a brilliant trader.
Because we mentioned all those ships coming in, they wanted otter skins.
But Koboe also had, he was right on the mouth of the Columbia River.
So he also had all these native people to the east who would have, you know, starchy grains or different vegetables to
So he would buy whale meat from one person, sell the whale meat to somebody else, make a little more money, buy some opado from them, sell it to somebody else, get some otter skins.
And he was always kind of facilitating all these trades, which meant he was very powerful, but he was also very knowledgeable.
And so when you think about his point of view, it helps you reframe so many episodes too.
Like one of the most famous examples from Lewis and Clark is when they vote, right?
Like they're on the Pacific coast and they're going to have this vote
about, well, where are we going to put our winter quarters?
And they famously let York vote in this, which is amazing.
People say they let Sacagawea vote, but that's not quite true.
What happened is Sacagawea spoke up.
Because if you look at Clark's journals, you can see that he didn't leave a space for Sacagawea, and then she just blurted out, here's what I think we should do.
So he had to kind of add her at the bottom, which is a cool detail.
That's right.
And there have been lots of votes previous to this, and they did not let him have a say.
But by the time they got out there, he had done so much work dealing with rapids, hunting, helping build forts, that they were like, we're going to give you a say as well.
Or did they put him on payroll?
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