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One of the slowest-reproducing land mammals of North America, grizzlies generally don't breed until their sixth year of life, and then the cubs--usually one or two, but occasionally three-- remain with their mother for nearly three years, learning the lay of the land--where to find food...
The Missouri River's shifty personality was a constant problem for Lewis and Clark, who struggled against its powerful current and crumbling riverbanks. To 19th century westward expansionists, the Missouri was something to be harnessed, its rambunctious energy put to work. It was. Seven dams erected between 1933 and 1966...
We know from the internet that everything has its freaks. There are freaks for Legos, for presidential graves and for women who kill rodents with stiletto heels. But with the Internet, you always suspect that these people are half ironic, that part of their fun is pretending to be obsessed...
I went to meet some of these people when my editors decided they'd like me to eat the kind of food that Lewis and Clark ate. This was not the subtlest of the many ways in which they have tried to kill me, but it's a soft job...
My editors, though, are wimps. They were afraid that my pursuit of historical accuracy--killing a buffalo with a black-powder musket, for instance--would upset you. They were also concerned about the law, in terms of eating animals like grizzly bear, beaver, horse and whale. Worst of all, they...