Craig Fehrman
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And that's one thing that's new in my book is I found all these small details where you can see Lewis and Clark are talking in political terms.
Like there's this idea of the right of soil, like native people.
What like do they who claims the land and who do we negotiate with to buy it?
And when Lewis deals with a grizzly bear, he says that the grizzly bear was, quote, tenacious of the right of soil, which a that's just a great joke.
Like Lewis is a funny guy.
But that's also like a term that could have been used in the White House.
So you can see that Lewis and Clark are always thinking about land, who owns it, where America is going to go next.
And this is this all started before the Louisiana Purchase.
The Louisiana Purchase was like a happy accident that supercharged it.
Well, first of all, the Louisiana purchase didn't cover the whole route.
So the Pacific Northwest, like, well, I mean the kind of the.
big chunk of it well but i mean they were really interested in the pacific northwest like out there you had like russian ships british ships spanish ships french ships american ships all circling on that coast so part of it was getting out there like different ships had gone there but having but going the route by land offered you a different claim all these empires had this there's this idea called the law of nations and so there are all these rules and sort of theoretical debates the native people were just like we don't really care about your theoretical debates there are more of us than there are of you in this time period yeah but
Jefferson was thinking about how do we like advance America's legal claims.
And so sending Lewis and Clark would help in the Pacific Northwest.
And they were already eyeing the Louisiana, the area that would become the Louisiana Purchase.
Like Jefferson's Secretary of Treasury, Gallatin, whose name we see all over the place here, Gallatin said in a, when they were planning out the expedition, he's like, the Missouri country is a particular interest to us because that's the first place Americans are going to go.
So there's no question that Gallatin, Jefferson, Lewis, Clark, they were thinking in these terms.
Huh.
They would have just like the Spanish were not intimidating.
So like British traders have been sneaking past them for decades.
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