Steven Rinella
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Well, this is a story that is kind of impressive.
Don't get me wrong.
He runs into a lot of trouble the further west he gets, especially in Ohio.
But there's a story, again,
can't really fact check these, right?
We're talking about stories that kind of get passed down.
This is not a written down.
That's one thing that's difficult about Chapman.
Think about other stories from the time, right?
We're talking about like early 1800s.
Lewis and Clark kept journals, right?
There's many people from that time in history that write, and they write so, so much.
So we have so much to draw from.
Chapman could read, and Chapman could talk.
He was a proselytizer.
He could really preach.
There's all this documentation of people being interviewed after his passing, talking about what a great preacher and speaker he was.
But he did not write anything down.
He did not write anything down.
So we have no letters.