Craig Fehrman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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He was a,
He was kind of a little rascally, but once he kind of got himself worked out, he was one of their most important soldiers.
And there's this – this is one of the new things I found about him.
One of the times he shows up in the book is when they're in St.
Louis.
Shout out to my St.
Louis people who love Lewis and Clark's relationship to St.
Louis.
But when they have their first winter quarters there, it's a boot camp basically because they have half regular soldiers, people like John Ordway.
And then they have half people who are just civilians from Kentucky who are really good shots or really good hunters or things like that.
And so they got to make these two groups cohere, but they've also got to teach the non-soldiers how to be soldiers.
And so Coulter is kind of one of the troublemakers in this period.
And at one point, Lewis and Clark head to St.
Louis to like have a nice dinner and do diplomatic stuff.
And Ordway, they leave Ordway in charge and the men rebel.
And like Coulter is like,
We don't know exactly what happened, but the most likely thing is that Ordway was like, it's your turn to stand guard.
Something like that.
Like some kind of like, go do your soldier task.
And so Coulter and Shields and a couple other people from Kentucky were like, we're going to kill you.
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