Craig Fehrman

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 883: A New History of Lewis and Clark · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

And so we've always had Lewis's journals.

And then there's been a letter of a guy named George Byrd Grinnell, who your listeners probably know because you all are so well-informed, where George Byrd Grinnell was like, I interviewed this guy who met Lewis and Clark.

But in that letter, George Byrd Grinnell was like, I might have more from my interview with this guy in my notebooks.

Let me check.

And he never checked.

But his notebooks are just sitting there at a library.

So I went to his notebooks.

Not only did I find the three pages of transcripts from the interview, Grinnell remembered wrong.

So Grinnell's version of this guy's interview in the letter is completely different than the actual interview.

So in my book, in the back, I just print the whole interview because that's a big document for historians.

But I also hope readers read it too, and they can kind of see, like, to get Wolfkaff's perspective versus Lewis's perspective.

And I print Lewis's journal entries too, so like side by side.

You have Lewis's journal entry.

You have Wolfkaff's interview.

You can see the two different accounts of this episode.

Did one – do they contradict on factual matters?

They do in some ways, but I really found while working on this book that it was rarely about opposition.

It was about conversation.

So like Wolf Calf says, we tried to steal the American horses.

But everybody else who's written about this said that the Blackfoot people tried to steal the American guns.

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