Randall Williams

And everyone is just observing and writing about the sites they see, counting things, right? Like really putting a record down that now you can look at the West and part of what's so inviting about it is there's something there to read about. And it's really hard to get.

When looking at people coming into Kentucky, again, for instance, coming into Kentucky, it's like there's hints of things where you gather it must have been really different, but there's no just vivid pictures of what they're seeing. Did people also learn to read and write? How do you explain that?

When looking at people coming into Kentucky, again, for instance, coming into Kentucky, it's like there's hints of things where you gather it must have been really different, but there's no just vivid pictures of what they're seeing. Did people also learn to read and write? How do you explain that?

When looking at people coming into Kentucky, again, for instance, coming into Kentucky, it's like there's hints of things where you gather it must have been really different, but there's no just vivid pictures of what they're seeing. Did people also learn to read and write? How do you explain that?

Like it was enough of a thing that there was value in faking one.

Like it was enough of a thing that there was value in faking one.

Like it was enough of a thing that there was value in faking one.

But man, it's off your subject matter, but can you just imagine that if a century prior to Lewis and Clark— You'd have taken people with that mandate and that skill set, and you'd have said, I want you to cross over the range divide. I want you to descend the Ohio, descend the Mississippi, come back Overland.

But man, it's off your subject matter, but can you just imagine that if a century prior to Lewis and Clark— You'd have taken people with that mandate and that skill set, and you'd have said, I want you to cross over the range divide. I want you to descend the Ohio, descend the Mississippi, come back Overland.

But man, it's off your subject matter, but can you just imagine that if a century prior to Lewis and Clark— You'd have taken people with that mandate and that skill set, and you'd have said, I want you to cross over the range divide. I want you to descend the Ohio, descend the Mississippi, come back Overland.

On the Nash's trace or whatever. Yeah. And like, do your thing. Like write, write down about all the stuff.

On the Nash's trace or whatever. Yeah. And like, do your thing. Like write, write down about all the stuff.

On the Nash's trace or whatever. Yeah. And like, do your thing. Like write, write down about all the stuff.

Write down about all of it. Yeah. You have to, I mean, in that era, you really have to sort through what material there is to get glimpses. Of the natural world. And obviously there's a literature from the earlier colonial period of, you know, English gentlemen going up to Savannah. Yeah, but a lot of it's indecipherable, though. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't read... The William Bartram kind of stuff.

Write down about all of it. Yeah. You have to, I mean, in that era, you really have to sort through what material there is to get glimpses. Of the natural world. And obviously there's a literature from the earlier colonial period of, you know, English gentlemen going up to Savannah. Yeah, but a lot of it's indecipherable, though. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't read... The William Bartram kind of stuff.

Write down about all of it. Yeah. You have to, I mean, in that era, you really have to sort through what material there is to get glimpses. Of the natural world. And obviously there's a literature from the earlier colonial period of, you know, English gentlemen going up to Savannah. Yeah, but a lot of it's indecipherable, though. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't read... The William Bartram kind of stuff.

It reads as very sort of, I don't know, pre-modern. Not in the technical sense, but pre-modern. I mean, it's very antiquarian.

It reads as very sort of, I don't know, pre-modern. Not in the technical sense, but pre-modern. I mean, it's very antiquarian.

It reads as very sort of, I don't know, pre-modern. Not in the technical sense, but pre-modern. I mean, it's very antiquarian.

Yeah, you read... That's true. You read, like, the account of Cabeza de Vaca. It feels like it's like an extended acid trip, you know, like you're kind of like, what? Really? There's no way. I mean, that's kind of like it doesn't paint a vivid picture. And I think that's something you're right. Like something happened linguistically.