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...Lewis and Clark's encounters with the 58 tribes along the trail has been defined by the white men's journals. The Mandan, who fed them, danced with them and offered them sexual favors over the bitterly cold winter of 1804-05, were described as good neighbors. The Lemhi Shoshone, Lewis wrote, were "not only cheerful but even gay, fond of gaudy dress...generous with the little they possess, extreemly honest..." He admired the Chinook for their canoes, "remarkably neat, light and well adapted for riding high waves" but disparaged their "well-known treachery...
When Lewis surmounted Lemhi Pass, 140 miles south of Missoula, on Aug. 12, he was flabbergasted by what was in front of him: "immence ranges of high mountains still to the West of us with their tops partially covered with snow." Nobody in what was then the U.S. knew the Rocky Mountains existed, with peaks twice as high as anything in the Appalachians back East. Lewis and Clark weren't merely off the map; they were traveling outside the American imagination...
...rail against Washington and plan a strategy for combatting the Endangered Species Act. Otero has now formed a public lands committee to fight for its rights, and has hired a Los Angeles-based legal group, the Individual Rights Foundation, to press its claims in court. In Idaho's Lemhi County, 2,500 citizens turned out at a local fairground on a sub-zero day to protest a judge's injunction against commercial activity in the state's national forests because of endangered salmon in area waters. Among the leaders of the demonstration were several county officials. In January, the Lemhi...
...somehow an illegal medication showed up in his pre-race tests, and Timely Writer had to scratch from the Jerome. He showed he needed the exercise at the Marlboro on Sept. 18, when he finished well behind upstart Lemhi Gold. But the fans could not resist backing Timely Writer in light of his past triumphs, and he went to the post the favorite...
Last Saturday he was the favorite again, and almost surely would have pulled out another win to enhance his career record. But Lemhi Gold again look the honors in the death-shadowed final event of the fall championship series at Belmont...