Failing to plan is planning to fail

I have taught Marketing Analysis and Decision Making to ESL (english as a second language) students. College seniors from Taiwan, plus an interpreter. Also, to adult learners from various areas of Missouri for William Woods University as an adjunct professor, my alma mater.
On my class ring is the school motto, "Love conquers all."
Nice sentiment.

Failing to plan is planning to fail, in my opinion, is the First Commandment of Marketing and Life.

I have begun to plan for my sequel to Lewis and Clark Part One: To the Missouri Breaks.

My songwriting style is to, First, write the name of the song. Second, write the lyrics and Third compose the music.

Lewis and Clark Part Two: From the Missouri Breaks to the Pacific is due for release in November 2005.

More to follow...............

What the song, Missouri Sunset, is about

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http://www.bmt.net/~vanderen/missun.htm
Missouri River Sunset:
Midwest sunsets are said to be some of the most beautiful. Here the setting sun turns the sky in to a glowing ember over the Missouri River near Chamberlain, South Dakota. The full color of the sunset lasted only minutes. It was breath taking to experience in person.
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http://www.nps.gov/mnrr/
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http://mo.water.usgs.gov/
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http://www.longestriver.org/

MISSOURI SUNSET Lyrics and Music by David Dean White Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved Key Cmaj7 Cmaj7 River runs red as scarlet Fmaj7 The water seems to boil Cmaj7 Ceiling of blue so far away Fmaj7 The current dines on the soil Cmaj7 Big fish breaks the surface Fmaj7 Logs float to the sea Cmaj7 Beaver and deer are abundant Fmaj7 The night belongs to the free Chorus: G The doorway of the Spirits Fmaj7 The seam between night and day G Purple and Red slash the sky Fmaj7 The clouds stretch far away (Instrumental Break) Cmaj7 All that was green Fmaj7 Now it frames the sky Cmaj7 The owl discloses his presence Fmaj7 Beauty so pure I could cry (Chorus) X2 (Fade)

What the song, Rattlesnakes and Flint, is about

While Lewis and Clark were the first Americans to see much of what would become the western United States, those same lands had long been occupied by native peoples.

Some tribes the Corps encountered
Over the course of the expedition, the Corps of Discovery would come into contact with nearly 50 Native American tribes. Quickly, the captains learned how many different definitions there really were for the word “Indian.” The Mandans lived in earth lodges, farmed corn and were amenable to trade with America. The Teton Sioux slept in tepees, hunted buffalo and guarded their territory fiercely against anyone who passed through, whether foreign or Indian. Some tribes had never seen a white or black man before Lewis and Clark. Others spoke bits of English and wore hats and coats they received from European sea captains.
The Meeting Ceremony
Over the course of the expedition, Lewis and Clark developed a ritual that they used when meeting a tribe for the first time. The captains would explain to the tribal leaders that the their land now belonged to the United States, and that a man far in the east – President Thomas Jefferson – was their new “great father.” They would also give the Indians a peace medal with Jefferson on one side and two hands clasping on the other, as well as some form of presents (often trade goods). Moreover, the Corps members would perform a kind of parade, marching in uniform and shooting their guns.
A Selection of Tribes
The tribes listed in Native Americans represent the Indians who had the most significant interactions about Lewis and Clark. Each short article provides basic, introductory information about each tribe, and touches on the tribe’s relationship to the expedition.
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For more than a hundred years the Missouri Indians lived in earth-covered homes along the river that bears their name, at the river's junction with a tributary called the Grand River. But six years before the arrival of Lewis and Clark, the Sauk and Fox Indians swept down from the northeast to defeat them. The survivors established villages south of the Platte River in what is now part of Nebraska. Lewis and Clark's expedition first encountered the Missouri settlements in summer 1804, when the Missouri were away buffalo hunting and their villages were empty. The Missouri were farmer-hunters, growing and harvesting corn, beans, and squash, but also hunting bison and other game to supplement their diet. At one point, Clark lamented that the Corps might pass through the region before the Missouri returned. But on July 28, one of the corpsmen met a Missouri Indian, who told Lewis that his band of about 20 lodges had recently joined surviving Oto. Both populations had been recently stricken with smallpox; now only about 250 people survived. Lewis and Clark sent out a party to this village, and on August 2 the men returned with a small group of Oto and Missouri. The next day, at modern-day Council Bluffs, Iowa, Lewis and Clark held their first meeting with western Indians, setting the pattern for future such councils. Amid great pomp and ceremony the Corps marched in their full uniform regalia, demonstrating their weaponry and distributing gifts to those chiefs they felt were of sufficient rank.Despite the success of these first meetings, Lewis still wanted to meet with the head Missouri chief, Big Horse. A search party went out and on August 18 the Corps finally met with Big Horse and Oto Chief Little Thief.The discussions centered on trade and peace negotiations. Lewis wanted the Oto-Missouri to support peace on the Plains and to stop raiding the neighboring tribes. The Missouri and Oto were more interested in a reliable, open-trade system. Disappointed in the seemingly paltry gifts of beads, paint, and tobacco from the huge supply on the keelboat, both the Oto and the Missouri were unhappy with the exchange. This first Indian council ended on a flat note and nothing was really accomplished.By the mid-1860s there were about 400 Oto-Missouri remaining, and they settled on a reservation on the Big Blue River between Kansas and Nebraska. In 1881 this combined tribe moved to Indian Territory in modern Oklahoma. The 1991 census listed about 1,350 Oto-Missouri still living near Pawnee, Oklahoma.


WILLIAM CLARK July 28, 1804 "G Drewyer brought in a Missourie Indian which he met with hunting in the Prarie This Indian is one of the fiew remaining of that nation. ..."
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http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~maa8/ronda.htm
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http://www.flightofdiscovery.com/press.html
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It had taken two days for William Clark and the men to make the short journey from their winter camp at Wood River, on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, to this small town on the banks of the Missouri. Entering into the swift current of the Missouri for the first time gave the Corps of Discovery the opportunity to test their boats and themselves against the river that would take them west. By the time the group reached St. Charles, Clark knew that work remained to be done.
The keelboat's load had to be rearranged to make it ride more evenly in the water. One of the pirogues lacked sufficient manpower, so Pierre Cruzatte and Francois Labiche, men of French and Indian descent who joined the group in St. Charles, were welcomed warmly. Both men had been up part of the Missouri before and their experience would be invaluable. Cruzatte's fiddle would also be a happy sound to enliven quiet nights along the river.
Lewis' time in St. Charles was brief. On Monday, May 21, 1804, the party "set out at half passed three oClock under three cheers from the gentlemen on the bank," according to Clark. They made only three miles, camping that night on the head of an island.
Meriwether Lewis' curiosity almost brought the expedition to a quick end just two days out of St. Charles. Limestone bluffs lined the Missouri River corridor in the eastern part of the state. On the south side of the river, near present day St. Albans, was a cave, "called by the French the Tavern which is 40 yards long, 4 feet deep and about 20 feet high," wrote Clark, and it was a gathering place for trappers and traders. Lewis climbed the bluff there to a peak about 300 feet above the river. He lost his footing and slipped, but was able to use his knife to obtain some leverage and stop his fall.
Those first few days also were the last of civilization the men would see until their return trip. They traveled through the Femme Osage valley and what is now Defiance. The legendary frontiersman, Daniel Boone, had moved to the area in 1799, but there is no record of the men meeting.
La Charette, a small village of seven families, was the last white settlement on the Missouri. Flooding and the shifting of the river have washed away the site, but it was located near present-day Marthasville.
Twelve to 14 miles of progress upstream was a good day in those early stages of the expedition. The captains were constantly measuring. How wide was the Missouri at various points? How wide were the other rivers that ran into it, such as the Gasconade and Osage? Lewis took celestial navigations whenever possible. Clark was the mapmaker and, though little experienced at the craft, would prove astonishingly accurate.
The captains and other men of the Corps who kept journals were delighted by the beauty of the countryside as they traveled across Missouri. Each of the sergeants had been ordered to keep his own journal and some of the other men did as well. Sergeant Charles Floyd referred to an area near present-day Jefferson City "as Butifull a peas of Land as ever I saw." His overall impression was that, "The land is Good."
Near today's Rocheport at Manitou Bluffs, they spied pictographs, which Clark described as, "courious paintings and carveing in the projecting rock of limestone inlade with white red and blue flint of a very good quallity." In the vicinity they saw signs of buffalo, encountered a den of rattlesnakes, and hunters returned to camp with their first bear meat. There was much to cover in their journals.
On June 9, Clark noted a site called the Prairie of Arrows as one with potential for a fort. The area had had that name since 1723. Its most likely source was Indians using the native flint to make spears and arrowheads. In 1813, a fort was moved here and the town became known as Arrow Rock.
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http://www.l3-lewisandclark.com/ShowOneObject.asp?ObjectID=905&SiteID=79
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http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/lewisandclark/rhd.htm
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http://www.ecarter.k12.mo.us/dept/elementary/fourthgrade/ccrites/missouriindians.html
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http://www.nanations.com/missouri/


RATTLESNAKES AND FLINT Lyrics and Music by David Dean White Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved Key G G F Indian signs on the rock C G Colored Blue and Red G F In a crevice rattlesnakes crawl C G Now we’re filled with dread G F With the flint they make their tools C G And tip their arrows too G F The Missouri roam the land C G Family to the Sioux Chorus: F C The land is the dust and blood G Of all we are F C We’ve been here at the dawn of G D The very first hour G F C G Buffalo hunters fishermen still they farm the land G F C G Travel across the Prairie of Arrows to their ancient homeland G F C G Now children of the Great New Father Thomas Jefferson G F C G Their future soon filled with sorrows blood spilled on the sand Instrumental Break G F C G A medal of Peace was given to seal the friendship pact G F C G At Council Bluffs the Corps parades to the sound of the Band G F C G Commerce and trade the hoped result with the Indians G F C G Between Hell and Heaven the American promised land Chorus X2 (Fade)

What the song, The Death of Charles Floyd, is about

Sergeant Charles Floyd was born in Kentucky, and was among the first to volunteer for service in the Corps, joining on August l, 1803. Among those included as one of the “Nine young men from Kentucky,” Floyd was a cousin of the expedition’s Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor. Considered a “man of much merit” by Captain Clark, he kept an uninterrupted daily record from May 14, 1804, until August 18, two days prior to his untimely death on August 20. Floyd’s death was the only fatality among expedition members during the two years, four months and nine days of their transcontinental odyssey.
Floyd’s published journal reproduces verbatim his inspired spelling and fractured grammar, characteristics found also in the journals of the two captains and the four enlisted men who kept journals. Floyd’s journal has been published jointly with that of Corps member, Sergeant John Ordway, as Volume 9, The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Gary E. Moulton, Editor, 11 volumes to date (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1995).
Floyd’s entries are laconic but factual. In the spirit of President Jefferson’s instructions and perhaps drawing from an agrarian background, Floyd judged land quality, including soil conditions, enroute up the Missouri. Contributing his personal assessments of what he observed, Floyd, on May 25, 1804, wrote, “[T]he land is Good & handsom the Soil Rich;” June 4, “[A] Butifull a peas of Land as ever I saw.” On June 7, he recorded his own interpretations of Indian pictographs as “pictures of the Devil and other things.” Floyd’s August 7 entry is the only detailed description of Private Moses Reed's “Desarte [desertion] from us with out aney Jest Case [just cause].”
Unfortunately, Floyd’s contributions to the journey, together with his journal, ended with his premature death. As “Diagnosed” by the captains, Floyd’s illness was considered to be a “bilious cholic.” They could not be faulted for preventing his death, which medical historians have concluded was from a ruptured appendix.
Captain Clark's journal entry for August 20, reads: “Sergeant Floyd much weaker and no better...Floyd as bad as he can be no pulse & nothing will stay a moment on his Stomach or bowels. Floyd Died with a great deal of Composure, before his death he Said to me, ‘I am going away I want you to write me a letter.’ We buried him on the top of the bluff. 1/2 Mile below [is] a Small river to which we Gave his name, He was buried with the Honors of War much lamented, a Seeder post with the Name Sergt. C. Floyd died here 20th of august 1804 was fixed at the head of his grave. This Man at all times gave us proofs of his firmness and Determined resolution to doe Service to his Countrey and honor to himself. after paying all the honor to our Decesed brother we camped in the Mouth of floyds River about 30 yards wide, a butiful evening”
Today, Floyd enjoys the honor of having had erected at his gravesite in present Sioux City, Iowa, the most prestigious memorial of the explorers. A 100 foot high sandstone masonry obelisk, second in size only to that of the Washington Monument, was dedicated in fitting ceremonies on Memorial Day 1901. Dedication speaker for the occasion was Dr. Elliott Coues, editor of the 1893 annotated reprint of the 1814 Biddle Allen edition of the journals. Coues spoke eloquently of the exploring enterprise:
“I must confess that I am what my friends call me – ‘a Lewis and Clark enthusiast.’ But I do not think that anyone can read that ‘national epic of exploration’ without sharing my enthusiasm. It is one of the grandest episodes in the history of our country. Every American can be proud of it. Every person in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South and North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington – for the expedition passed through all these states – has an interest in the immortal achievements of these dauntless pioneers. For every Iowan this interest focuses about the saddest incident of the whole journey – the death of Charles Floyd.”
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http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=716
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http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/diary/cat_sgt_charles_floyd_1804.asp
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http://mt.essortment.com/sergeantcharles_rwnm.htm
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http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/lewisandclark/ser.htm


THE DEATH OF CHARLES FLOYD Lyrics and Music by David Dean White Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved Key Em Em C The saddest moment of our journey D Em Was the death of Charles Floyd Em C A man of merit and determination D Em Admired for his firm resolution Em C He recorded the land as good and handsome D Em The most beautiful place ever seen Em C Saw pictures of Devils and Indian signs D Em And Oh! So many things Em C Was stricken with a bilious cholic D Em No treatment had any effect Em C He said to me “I’m going away” D Em With composure and honor he passed Chorus: G D C Sgt. Floyd Sgt. Floyd God took one of our best G D All of us will follow you C On the day of our final rest (Instrumental Break) Em C A cedar post bears his name D Em This man we much lament Em C Charles we lost you on the way D Em But you’re a man we’ll never forget (Chorus) X2 (Fade)

What the song, Big Blue, is about

The explorers found prime Missouri River fishing in the corner of present-day South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa. Here, where the important tributaries of the Big Sioux and the Niobrara join the Missouri, Goodrich brought scores of catfish, pike, and sauger home nightly. Of the catfish, Clark wrote, "those fish is so plent[iful] that we catch them at any time and place in the river."
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Blue CatfishIctalurus furcatus
Description
Ictalurus is Greek meaning "fish cat," and furcatus is Latin, meaning "forked," a reference to the species' forked tail fin. Blue catfish have a forked tail, and are sometimes very similar to channel catfish. However, only the Rio Grande population has dark spots on the back and sides. The number of rays in the anal fin is typically 30-35, and coloration is usually slate blue on the back, shading to white on the belly.
Angling Importance
The blue catfish is the largest freshwater sportfish in Texas. Where mature populations exist, 50-pounders are not unusual. Typically, the largest fish are caught by trotliners, some of whom have landed specimens in excess of 115 pounds. Rod-and-reel anglers have landed specimens in excess of 80 pounds. Catfish is the second most preferred group of fish among licensed Texas anglers, and blues rank third behind channel and flathead catfish. Like the channel cat, the blue catfish is considered an excellent food fish.
Biology
Blue catfish are primarily large-river fish, occurring in main channels, tributaries, and impoundments of major river systems. They tend to move upstream in the summer in search of cooler temperatures, and downstream in the winter in order to find warmer water. Their spawning behavior appears to be similar to that of channel catfish. However, most blue catfish are not sexually mature until they reach about 24 inches in length. Like channel catfish, the blue catfish pursues a varied diet, but it tends to eat fish earlier in life. Although invertebrates still comprise the major portion of the diet, blue catfish as small as four inches in length have been known to consume fish. Individuals larger than eight inches eat fish and large invertebrates. Blue catfish commonly attain weights of 20 to 40 pounds, and may reach weights well in excess of 100 pounds. It is reported that fish exceeding 350 pounds were landed from the Mississippi River during the late 1800's.
Distribution
Blue catfish are native to major rivers of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi river basins. The range also extends south through Texas, Mexico, and into northern Guatemala. In Texas it is absent from the northwestern portions of the state including the Panhandle, but present elsewhere in larger rivers.
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Ictalurus furcatus LeSueur
Other names -- chucklehead cat, forktail cat, great blue cat, blue channel, madtom, humpback blue, highfin blue, Mississippi cat, Fulton cat.
Blue catfish, not to be confused with the "blue" color phase of the male channel catfish, is indigenous to the southern United States and is rarely found in the lower reaches of the Mississippi River in Iowa. Primarily a "big river" fish species, no specimens have been collected from any of the interior streams, although this fish might very well inhabit the lower Des Moines River. It has been reported in the lower reaches of the Missouri River in Mills and Fremont counties and has been collected in Lake Manawa. Blue catfish were stocked in Big Creek Lake in Polk County in l972, but no returns were reported. No collections of blue catfish have been documented in Iowa waters for more than 10 years.
Color of blue catfish, as its name implies, is blue or slate-gray above and light below. The body has no dark spots that are characteristic of channel catfish. The upper jaw protrudes slightly beyond the lower, and the head is prominently convex. The anal fin is very long, and its basal length is about one-third the standard length of the fish. Blue catfish are easily distinguished from the channel catfish by the number of rays in the anal fin, channel catfish having 24 to 29 rays -blue catfish from 30 to 35. The tail is deeply forked and the eyes are small. The air bladder has three lobes or parts, an anterior pair joined side by side and the smaller third lobe is placed behind.
Blue catfish spawn in June and early July when the water temperatures are 70 to 75 degrees F. They construct nests similar to those of channel catfish. The young attain a length of from 2 1/2 to 4 inches at the end of the first growing season. Adults are among our largest freshwater fishes and specimens weighing nearly 100 pounds have been taken from the lower reaches of the Missouri River. While fish of this size are rare, adults weighing up to 20 or 25 pounds are quite common.
The range of natural foods consumed by blue catfish is indeed very wide. They live principally upon aquatic insects and their larvae, crayfish, worms, frogs, small fresh-water mussels, fish, and a host of other living and dead material. Like channel catfish, they are omnivorous in their feeding and take everything that is available and palatable.
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Blue Catfish
Tackle
First off we'll start with what kinda tackle to use ... 2/0 eagle claw baitholder hooks are hard to beat catching catfish on rod&reel. They seldom miss a good strike from a catfish and if you keep them sharp they'll almost set themselves. The reason I use small hooks rod&reel fishing for catfish is basically so that I can use a small bait and they bite better it seems like if you haven't got a pound of metal stickin outta the bait ... they hook better too ... loading the hook up with humungous amounts of bait or very large cut bait will catch you more turtles or unwanted strikes by gar or some other non-target fish in Keystone tailwaters. In certain areas it's best to use large bait but in some areas it's useless and it affects casting. Casting large bait with surf rods defeats the purpose ... the largest bait I can throw well is medium to large shad heads which I throw quite a bit lately. I've caught the majority of catfish in my life on one inch long by 1/4 inch wide strips of shad or some other cut bait if they weren't biting on shad. Grasshoppers are most of the time the best bait you can use behind Keystone Dam but they're seasonal. They don't come out good until 3rd week of July around here. The largest fish I've ever caught was on a 2/0 baitholder and a grasshopper ... it's picture is on the main page. 51 lb blue. I also caught a 22.5 lb blue that night plus a limited out with 16 blues and channelcat weighing between 2 to 10 lbs not counting the two bigger ones all caught using one rod and grasshoppers on 2/0 Eagle Claw baitholder hooks in about 5 hours so if you think these hooks are too small consider all the fish I catch just about are on this sized hooks. Blues are considered channel cat in Okla. but what we call channel cat don't usually get much bigger than 12 lbs or so but I've caught one that was 18 lbs the world record is something like 58# or 59# ... world record blue is 111# world record flatcat is 123#. Channels or what we call channel cat have a more narrow mouth and have kind of a greenish color and retain the black specks on their body until they get over 5 or 6 lbs. The channel cat that we call blues get much larger "up to 100 lbs". I think the record is like 96 lbs in Okla.
River FishingFishing rivers I've kinda slacked off as I usually don't fish anywhere but keystone but fishing rivers there's just one or two basic rules I live by ... use bait that is natural to the fish ... using store bought bait will just lead you to disappointment .... that stuff is just a way to get your hard earned money and you won't catch any fish but maybe one or two the whole day unless you use it in a farm pond where the fish are being fed regularly by the landowner. It's always best to fish structure upstream from brush piles/log jams or rock ledges. Fishing in wide open areas is okay just as long as the water is rising from a recent rain.
For jugline fishing I like to use a hook that I'd never use for rod&reel except in extremely fast moving water and those are large Kahle hooks .... they're a weird looking hook and a person will miss a lot of strikes on them with rod&reel but for juglines they're great ... they hook the fish really well on juglines and have kind of a cam action and will twist around and hook blues several times when they twist and thrash around ... I like to use shad heads and whole perch on juglines.

BIG BLUE Lyrics and Music by David Dean White (Ictalurus Furcatus) Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved Key A A We traveled your river and creeks G The dark muddy water your home A Your flesh so tender and tasty G But your strength can free you to roam D Skin smooth as a shark C Tinted a beautiful blue D Whiskers just like a cat C Your tail is forked in two E You’re truly the king of the river D Sometimes as big as a man E When we took you by the hook D You wound up fried in the pan (Instrumental Break) (Repeat verses) X2 (Fade)

What the song, Bonne Femme Twilight, is about

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Watershed Characteristics
Natural Areas
Natural areas in the watersheds are found primarily on public land, but many private properties have also been maintained in a natural state. In these natural areas, there are rare geologic formations; tall bluffs topped with native grasses and wildflowers; rocky Ozark streams; and thriving forests of oak, hickory, dogwood and redbud trees which together support a rich diversity of wildlife.
One of the most striking geologic features is the system of sinkholes and springs. Between Rock Bridge Memorial State Park and Three Creeks State Forest, sinkholes along with surface tributaries feed a system of subterranean streams and springs that emerge from the Devil's Icebox Cave (Missouri's 6th longest cave). Water from Bonne Femme Creek flows underground for a distance of 3.5 miles nourishing populations of unusual underground life, including the Pink Planarian flatworm that is unique to this cave.

Ozark streams are the lifeblood of the watersheds. The Bonne Femme and Little Bonne Femme Creeks are larger streams that define the watersheds.Their major tributaries include Bass Creek, Turkey Creek, Fox Hollow Branch, Smith Branch, Devil's Icebox Branch, Gans Creek, Clear Creek, and Mayhan Creek. These streams support a wide variety of fish, insects and other aquatic life. Common fish species include the green sunfish, bluegill, large mouth bass, bullheads and channel catfish.
Turkey Creek, Bass Creek, Bonne Femme Creek, Gans Creek and Devil's Icebox Cave Branch are all recognised by the Missouri Clean Water Commission as outstanding state resource waters. All of these streams originate in the uplands along Highway 63 and flow through Rock Bridge Memorial State Park or Three Creeks State Conservation Area.
Terrestrial ecosystems in the watersheds are also very special. More than 16,000 acres of public and private land in the watersheds is forested. Wildlife is abundant. Deer and turkey populations are among the highest in the state. Geese, raptors, foxes and racoons are frequently seen. Although more difficult to spot, coyotes, beaver, otter, tortoise and woodchucks are common. Rabbits, squirrels and opposums are widespread.
Agricultural Activities
Primary row crops in the watersheds include soybeans, wheat and corn. Most row crop acreage is found east of Highway 63. The rest are located north of Ashland and in the rich flood plains or bottom land in the lower reaches of the Bonne Femme and Little Bonne Femme Creeks. Row crop farms range in size from more that 1000 acres to small plots used for feeding wildlife. Almost half (40%) of the watersheds farms have cattle and about 12% tend horses. The number of hogs, sheep and chickens are smaller. Most watershed livestock graze in open pasture. Only a few are confined to feedlots.
Most of the watershed farmers use important conservation practices. More than 75% of row crop farmers have installed at least one grass waterway in an eroding drainage area. Another 75% leave leave crop residues in one or more fields over winter to prevent soil erosion. Almost half of the farmers build terraces and plant crops on the contour to prevent soil erosion.
More than half of the watershed farmers rotate their crops to prevent build-up of insect and disease pests. Most (66%) livestock farmers try to maintain at least three inches of grass in their pastures at all times. About 30% use fences to exclude livestock from streams and rotate livestock through separate fenced paddocks to reduce grazing pressure.
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BONNE FEMME TWILIGHT Lyrics and Music by David Dean White Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved Key Em Em 1 Em 1 The sun sinks slowly now falling to the earth Em 1 Em 1 To hide itself from our eyes till mornings new rebirth Cmaj7 D The day is done it’s time to rest again we’ve proved our worth Cmaj 7 D The sun sinks slowly now closer to the earth (Instrumental Break) Em 1 Em 1 A single cloud floats alone high above the darkness Em 1 Em 1 Across the river trees stand tall above the inky blackness Cmaj 7 D The river reflects the evening sky a glassy liquid mirror Cmaj7 D The air is still the moon is up a star displays it’s shimmer Em 1 Em 1 Peace and calm day is done to the sound of the river’s song X3 (Fade) 1 (sixth string second fret and third string second fret)

What the song, One Eyed Fiddler, is about

The One Eyed Fiddler was Peter (Pierre) Cruzatte.
This Crusat is near Sighted and has the use of but one eye,he is an attentive industerous man and one whome we both have placedthe greatest Confidence in dureing the whole rout.--
Captain William ClarkAugust 12, 1806
Pierre Cruzatte, a member of the permanent party of the Lewis and Clark expedition, was an expert riverman recruited for his navigational skills and his command of the French and Omaha languages.
He also played the fiddle, and his music had a direct impact on the success of the expedition: it served as a critical survival tool, both as a form of entertainment and recreation (in the truest sense of re-creation) for the members of the expedition; and as a way of establishing trust and good will with the Indian nations the expedition encountered along the trail. Besides what appears in the journals of the expedition, we know very little about Cruzatte. Here is a summation of the information contained in the journals:
Cruzatte, the son of a French father and Omaha Indian mother, was the expedition's main boatman as well as its most prominent musician. In the journals of the expedition, Cruzatte's last name appears spelled at least twelve different ways, and his first name appears both as Pierre and Peter. The men of the expedition sometimes referred to him as "the old Frenchman," so he may have been older than most of the party, though we cannot say for certain because we don't know when he was born, nor do we know with certainty when he died--Clark lists him as killed by 1825-28. The men also called him "St. Peter." Again, we do not know why; but it was tradition among the Voyageurs, the French Canadian boatman, to bestow a nickname describing the opposite of a characteristic of a person.
Some sources describe Cruzatte as being small and wiry (see Cruzatte's entry in THE MEN OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION below), but no primary source supports this assertion. It may have been inferred from descriptions of ideal boatmen. For example, Thomas L. McKenney (in Grace Lee Nute's THE VOYAGER, p. 14), declares that "if [a Voyageur] shall stop growing at about five feet four inches, and be gifted with a good voice, and lungs that never tire, he is considered as having been born under a most favourable star."
Cruzatte joined the expedition as a boatman, ostensibly in St. Charles, Missouri: the journals give his enlistment date as May 16, 1804, the beginning of the expedition's stay in St. Charles. Since Cruzatte did not spend that first winter training at Camp Dubois, his experience must have warranted his inclusion in the journey without the requisite training. Enlisting as a private, he was the expedition's most experienced waterman. Whenever a difficult aquatic problem arose, all the men, including the captains, deffered to Cruzatte. " Cruzatte who had been an old Missouri navigator," writes Captain Lewis at the mouth of the Marias, "and who from his integrity knowledge and skill as a waterman had acquired the confidence of every individual of the party declared it as his opinion that the N. fork was the true genuine Missouri and could be no other." When the expedition had to find a way through the Columbia River Narrows, Lewis "dispatched Peter Crusat (our principal waterman) back to follow the river and examine the practibility of the Canoes passing."
Cruzatte also worked as an interpreter, most notably among Omaha prisoners of the Teton Sioux, who, in September of 1804, told Cruzatte of their battle with the Teton Sioux, the result of which were the 65 scalps "hung on small Poles, which the Women held in their hand, when they danced..." (Joseph Whitehouse, September 27, 1804). Cruzatte returned with word from the prisoners that the expedition was "to be Stoped" by the Teton Sioux, according to Clark's journal entry. Cruzatte's information, and the resulting vigilence of the corps, may have saved the expedition. Cruzatte apparently did not fare as well with the Sioux language: "We had no good interpreter," wrote Sergeant Ordway on September 9, 1804, "but the old frenchman could make them understand tollarable well."
As an experienced boatman, Cruzatte was also familiar with creating caches. When the Captains decided to bury some of their supplies at the mouth of the Marias, Lewis writes, "on enquiry I found that Cruzatte was well acquainted with this business and therefore left the management of it intirely to him...." Cruzatte also knew mushrooms. "Cruzatte brought me several large morells," writes Lewis on June 19, 1806, "which I roasted and eat without salt pepper or grease in this way I had for the first time the true taist of the morell which is truly an insippid taistless food…."
Cruzatte played the fiddle "extreemly well" according to Lewis on June 25, 1805. Cruzatte's music served not only as recreation for the members of the expedition but also as a critical diplomatic tool: he played--and the men danced and sang--for many of the Indian nations which the expedition met along the way. The journals of the expedition describe him playing numerous times, and he probably played many more times than the journalists recorded.
Despite Cruzatte's poor eyesight, he appears quite frequently as a hunter in the journals and was involved in two notable hunting incidents. The first occurred on October 20, 1804, when he became the first member of the expedition to shoot a grizzly bear. "[H]e wounded him," writes Captain Lewis, "but being alarmed at the formidable appearance of the bear he left his tomahalk and gun...." Shortly thereafter, Cruzatte "shot a buffaloe cow broke her thy, the cow pursued him he concealed himself in a small raviene," again according to Lewis. It was not a good day for Monsieur Cruzatte. The other incident occurred on August 11, 1806, Cruzatte mistook Captain Lewis for an elk and shot him. "[T]he ball had passed through the fleshey part of his left thy," according to Clark, "below the hip bone and cut the cheek of the right buttock for 3 inches in length and the debth of the ball," luckily missing bone and artery. Cruzatte intially denied responsibility, prompting Captain Lewis to think the expedition under an Indian attack. Forensic evidence, however, pointed at the old Frenchman. Cruzatte "is an attentive industerous man," writes Captain Clark on the day after the accident, "and one whome we both have placed the greatest Confidence in dureing the whole rout...," but he is "near Sighted and has the use of but one eye...."
Clark's are the last positive words about Cruzatte in the journals. He disappears from history after the expedition. The river that the expedition named after him, Crusat River, in what is now Washington State, we now call the Wind River.
Moulton's The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition contains the following entry (page 516, volume 2):
Private Pierre Cruzatte (dates unknown).Often referred to as "Peter Cruzat" and other variations in the journals, he was half French and half Omaha. His official enlistment date was May 16, 1804, at St. Charles, Missouri, but he may have been recruited earlier. He was an experienced Missouri River boatman who had already participated in the Indian trade as far as Nebraska and was hired for his skill and experience. Unlike the other French boatmen, he and François Labiche were enlisted as members of the permanent party. He was one-eyed and nearsighted, and his fiddle playing often entertained the party. At times he also acted as interpreter. Lewis paid tribute during the expedition to his skill and experience as a riverman and to his integrity, but in the postexpedition list of members he receives no special recommendation; this is perhaps because the myopic Cruzatte had accidentally wounded Lewis while the two were hunting in August, 1806. Speculation places him with John McClellan's expedition to the Rockies in 1807. Clark lists him as "killed" by 1825-28.
Clarke's The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition contains the following information:
37. Private PIERRE CRUZATTE (CRUZAT; CRUSATTE; CROUZATT; CROISETTE).Half French and half Omaha, he probably was a descendant from the Cruzatte family who were early settlers of St. Louis. Obviously his father had lived among the Omaha at an early date. He enlisted with Lewis and Clark on May 16, 1804. Pierre had formerly been a trader on the Missouri for the Chouteaus before enlisting. He could speak the Omaha language and was skilled in sign-talk, so was of valuable assistance to the captains at the Indian councils and encounters with the tribes on the lower Missouri. He was a small man, wiry, had but one eye and was nearsighted. He was called "St. Peter" by the men as a nickname. Like the other regular men, he was awarded extra pay and a land grant after the expedition's return. He was killed by 1825-1828.
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The Personnel of the Lewis and Clark Expedition-- Private Pierre Cruzatte
If you’ve spent much time running rivers, you know what it feels like to come upon a new rapid that pushes you to the edge (and maybe a little beyond) of your ability. Imagine yourself, then, with William Clark as he scouted the Dalles of the Columbia River on October 24, 1805. Bear in mind that when the Corps of Discovery first entered the Columbia they measured its width at almost a thousand yards.
. . . here a tremendious black rock Presented itself high and Steep appearing to choke up the river . . . at this place the water of this great river is compressed into a Chanel between two rocks not exceeding forty five yards wide and continues for 1/4 of a mile when it again widens to 200 yards and continues this width for about 2 miles when it is again intersepted by rocks . . .
With Clark was the Corps’ principal “waterman,” Peter Crusatt. They both agreed: “by good Stearing we could pass down Safe.” The men who couldn’t swim well carried the guns, ammunition, and journals around the Dalles on foot. The rest paddled their dugout ponderosa pine canoes into what Clark described as “this agitated gut Swelling, boiling & whorling in every direction which from the top of the rock did not appear as bad as when I was in it . . .” The first two boats made it in good shape, to the “astonishment” of the Indians watching the spectacle. The good swimmers walked back up to float the rest through. The third filled with water, causing a delay of several hours while its baggage was dried. “The last Canoe,” Clark wrote, “Came over well[,]which to me was truly gratifying.”
Pierre Cruzatte’s place in history is unique and enviable: lead boatman on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. As bowman on the lead pirogue, Cruzatte “read” the rivers, searching for hazards and for the eddies that made upstream travel easier. When most of the other boatmen had been paid off and sent back down the Missouri from Ft. Mandan, Cruzatte proceeded on. The son of a French father and Omaha tribe mother, Cruzatte joined the Corps of Discovery as a private on May 16, 1804, at St. Charles, Missouri. He knew the Missouri and the tribes who lived along the river, having spent several years as a trader. And he played the violin. His comrades, who had nicknamed Cruzatte “St. Peter,” listened and danced, a performance that delighted Indian people from the Missouri to the Pacific and back.
On the lower Missouri, Lewis and Clark sent Cruzatte as an emissary to invite the Otoes and Omahas to their first formal parley with the United States. And his knowledge of the Omaha tongue may have prevented a disaster. During the last week of September, 1804, the Corps arrived at the Teton Sioux villages near present Pierre, South Dakota. They had been warned about the Tetons, a large and aggressive tribe who considered themselves masters of the Missouri. A large war party of Teton warriors had recently raided the Omahas, killing over seventy people and capturing dozens more. The officers allowed Cruzatte to distribute some awls, needles, and other small items among the Omaha captives, who told him that the Tetons intended to prevent the Expedition from continuing up the river. That did not occur, of course, but the Corps were on their guard.
In May, 1805, it was in Cruzatte’s boat that Toussaint Charbonneau was manning the rudder when a sudden gust of wind turned the pirogue broadside in the Missouri River. As the boat filled with water and Sacagawea recovered floating baggage, Cruzatte shouted at Charbonneau to turn the boat into the wind. Finally, Cruzatte’s threat to shoot Charbonneau brought him to his senses and he did what was necessary with the tiller. It was not the last time Cruzatte would be involved in a potentially life-threatening accident.
One of the more important decisions of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was made when the Corps of Discovery reached the mouth of the Marias River in June, 1805. Which was the true Missouri? Parties explored both rivers and came back to report. Pierre Cruzatte, lead boatman, had made up his mind. As Lewis recorded it in his journal, “Cruzatte, who . . . from his integrity, knowledge, and skill as a waterman had acquired the confidence of the . . . party[,] declared it as his opinion that the [Marias] was the true genuine Missouri.” The Corps stood behind Cruzatte, with two exceptions: Lewis and Clark. The officers were proven right several days later when the Corps came upon the Great Falls of the Missouri, a scenic wonder and logistical nightmare Indians had warned them about.
The incident for which Cruzatte is most known occurred on the return trip. Lewis and Cruzatte had stopped to hunt elk on a “thick willow bar” along the Missouri. Cruzatte wounded an elk. Both men went into the willows after it. Lewis, in his own words, “was in the act of firing on the elk . . . when a ball struck my left thye about an inch below my hip joint, missing the bone it passed through the left thye and cut the thickness of the bullet across the hinder part of the right thye.”
Because Cruzatte’s vision was poor and Lewis was wearing leather clothing, the captain’s first thought was that Cruzatte had mistaken him for the elk and accidentally shot him. Lewis called out, “Damn you! You have shot me!” Cruzatte suddenly faced humankind’s oldest ethical dilemma. When you make a bad mistake [and shooting your captain in the rear qualifies], do you confess and seek forgiveness, or do you keep your mouth shut and hope they don’t find out? Cruzatte heard Lewis call his name at the top of his voice several times. He remained silent. Supposing Cruzatte to be out of his hearing and that the shot had come from some other weapon, Lewis naturally assumed: Indians! Perhaps Blackfoot warriors seeking vengeance?
Lewis ran for the boat. He still called out to Cruzatte, but now it was a warning, not a curse. It occurred to him that Cruzatte may have already been captured or murdered. When he came within sight of the boat, he called to the men there to come and find the Indians. Unable to continue, Lewis returned to the boat and with his rifle, pistol, and airgun prepared “to sell my life as dearly as possible.” Twenty minutes later the men returned with Cruzatte. No Indians. Cruzatte “declared if he had shot me it was not his intention.” And no, he hadn’t heard Lewis calling to him. With Sgt. Gass’s help, Lewis dressed his wounds. Although the wound bled severely, Lewis was relieved to discover that the ball had touched neither bone nor artery.
This incident was raised several months later in an odd postscript to the Expedition. When Lewis learned that Gass would be publishing his journal before he and Clark could prepare theirs for printing, he rather churlishly warned the public of “unauthorized” and “spurious” works that may appear before his “genuine work” could be published. Lewis’s remarks provoked the following response from Gass’s editor, David McKeehan:
“I . . . conclude with congratulating you that Mr. Gass’s Journal did not fall into the hands of some wag, who might have insinuated that your wound was not accidental, but that it was the consequence of design . . .that the young hero might not return without more scars (if not honorable, near the place of honour) to excite the curiosity and compassion of some favorite widow . . .”
Concerning the man who inflicted the scars, history has little more to add. When Clark compiled his list of Corps members in the late 1820s, Cruzatte was among those listed as dead.


ONE EYED FIDDLER Lyrics and Music by David Dean White Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved Key D D Hey Pierre! Play us a song A We worked so hard all day long D Hey Pierre! Rosin up your bow A Will hop and sing Doe See Doe D Hey Pierre! Give us a tune A D Will dance till dark and howl at the moon Chorus: G The sound of the fiddle and the tambourine D Makes us glad and breaks the routine G We clap our hands and dance along D A D Let’s raise our voice and sing this song Repeat (verses) Repeat (Chorus) Instrumental Break Repeat (verses) (Chorus) X2 (Fade)

The way it was and the way it is.

Here are some words of wisdome by one of the world's best steel guitar players and all around great guy, Bobbe Seymore.
I know many of you haven't read Tanya Tucker's autobiography, however, there is one episode that you might find interesting. Since she already told this story in her book, I'm sure she won't mind me relaying it to you. I had just purchased a Mercedes Benz 450 SL and drove my 3 day old car to a Tanya Tucker master recording session. I believe Tanya was 17 or 18 at the time and had already hit her stride as a major recording artist. When the session was over, I was starting to pack up my steel guitar when she came tearing back into the studio wanting to know who's beautiful Mercedes was outside. I kept quiet but the engineer said that belongs to Bobbe Seymour to which she immediately came up and started begging to take it home and show her mother. The last thing I wanted to do was loan my new car to anyone, especially anybody with a young, wild reputation but after a half hour of begging and pleading and knowing I was going to have to face her for the second half of the session the following night, I finally agreed to trade cars with her for the next 24 hours. Her car was a British Jensen Interceptor with the 440 Chrysler engine. I knew I would enjoy driving her car too but I was still worried about my own. I went straight home and went to bed only to be awakened at 6 o'clock the following morning by a phone call from her best friend who had been a witness to the car exchange. I'll never forget her words, "Bobbe, Tanya just had a horrible wreck and cut your car in half at over a hundred miles an hour on a two-lane road near Portland, TN." I replied sleepily, "Ah, quit kidding around. This is a silly way to be awakened in the morning." but I could hear a radio in the callers background confirming the fact that indeed this horrible accident had taken place. The caller put the telephone up to the radio and this is when I learned the details. Tanya had fallen asleep and driven off the road at well over 120 MPH and hit a driveway bridge going over a culvert. The car was totally destroyed and Tanya was hanging onto life by a thread. Naturally, you can imagine my concern. However, luckily, both Tanya and her career survived as has our friendship. We both had the same insurance company so there was no problem getting the car replaced. So Tanya, here's a plug for your book dear and no, you can't borrow my Pinto. Something else to think about! Remember when we the people got to choose who was going to be a star and who wasn't? All the true stars of yesteryear were at least forty years old when they made it because they had to prove themselves and have a track record before we the people decided if they were good enough to be a star for us or not. Nowadays, the stars can be teenagers as long as they have the millions of dollars of record label money behind them. We don't get to choose the stars today, the record labels do. Do you like it this way or did you like it the old way? Don't you think the quality and likability of country music would be much better today if we had the choice of hearing what we wanted to hear and what we liked? I wish the choice was back in our hands.

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What the song, A Gill a Day, is about.

gill2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (jl)n. Abbr. gi or gi.
A unit of volume or capacity in the U.S. Customary System, used in liquid measure, equal to 1/4 of a pint or four ounces (118 milliliters).
A unit of volume or capacity, used in dry and liquid measure, equal to 1/4 of a British Imperial pint (142 milliliters). See table at measurement.
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The Personnel of the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionArticle 8 -- Private John Collins
Two hundred years ago alcohol was an accepted and expected part of the military man’s daily ration. When circumstances allowed, four ounces [a “gill”] of rum was the sailor’s daily allowance, a like amount of whiskey the soldier’s. That was about a gallon a month per man, an amount easily stored in the hold of the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s keelboat Discovery. The whiskey ration figured into the critical balance of discipline and morale Lewis and Clark maintained in their command. A couple of stiff ones eased the pains of a hard day’s labor and enhanced the mood of conviviality conducive to forging a tight unit. Too much whiskey, however, could destroy discipline and lead to disaster.
The theft of whiskey thus threatened both morale and discipline. On June 29, 1804, Sgt. Charles Floyd charged Private John Collins with “being drunk on his post this morning out of whiskey put under his charge as a Sentinal.” Collins had allegedly allowed Private Hugh Hall to help himself to a extracurricular snort as well. There’s a certain humor in a sentry helping himself to liquor he’s supposed to be guarding, but Collins’s comrades in arms were anything but amused. A court-martial was convened. Collins was found guilty and sentenced to one hundred lashes on his bare back. Hall received fifty. Such punishment was excruciating, slow in healing, and often permanently disfigured the victim. For the rest of his life, Collins literally carried on his back the reminder of his transgression.
Months before this incident, Clark had already formed a negative opinion of Collins. In one of the many personnel lists Clark recorded in the journals at Camp Dubois in 1804, the term “blackgard” appears after Collins’ name. Why? Perhaps for stunts like the one Collins pulled on January 25. Away from camp hunting, he came upon the carcass of a hog hung up in a tree near a farm. Collins carried half of it back to camp and tried, unsuccessfully, to pass it off as bear meat. This was not the sort of community outreach the Expedition needed.
John Collins’s origins are obscure. We don’t know when he was born, but it was probably in Frederick County, Maryland. He was apparently transferred to the Corps of Discovery from Captain Russell Bissell’s company of the U.S. 1st Infantry Regiment. A member of Sgt. Nathaniel Pryor’s squad, he served as its cook. And although he was not, like Pryor, one of the nine young men from Kentucky, he proved to be such a superb hunter and woodsman that Lewis and Clark were willing to overlook some of his character flaws.
To his credit, Collins also proved to be a competent brewmeister in very unlikely circumstances. The Corps’ whiskey ration had lasted only to the Great Falls of the Missouri. Several months later, Collins used some wet, moldy camas bread acquired from the Nez Perce on the Clearwater River to make what Clark considered “some very good beer.”
During the Fort Clatsop winter of 1805-6, Private John Collins was one of the members of the Corps of Discovery dispatched to the shore of the Pacific Ocean at present-day Seaside, Oregon, to boil seawater down to salt. Although the Expedition’s hunters killed enough elk in the forest near the fort to keep the party from starving, game was scarce near the salt camp. In late January, Collins, one of Corps’s best hunters, returned to the fort for some trade goods to be used to buy whale meat and other food from the Indians.
Perhaps at no point in the Expedition was Collins’ hunting skill more genuinely appreciated than in May 1806. The Corps was camped on the lower Clearwater River waiting for enough snow to melt on the Lolo Trail to permit their passage eastward. Because there were also several hundred Nez Perce people living nearby, game was scarce. Hunting parties were dispatched throughout the surrounding area. On May 14, Collins brought in the carcasses of two bears. Lewis gave half of one carcass to some Indians camped nearby, commenting in his journal that “this was a great treat to those poor wretches who scarcely taist meat once a month.”
Collins killed several more bears in the Weippe Prairie area, including one that Lewis described in his journal as a “bey grizzle.” Collins told Clark that the rain that was falling in camp on the Clearwater River was several inches of wet snow on the prairie above, inspiring Clark’s note that “here we have Summer, Spring, and Winter in the Short Space of twenty or thirty miles.”
Collins had a close call on the Clearwater. On May 30 George Shannon, John Potts, and Collins paddled one of the canoes across the river to barter for some camas root with the Nez Perce. The river was running high and fast. When they tried to land, the current swung the canoe into some trees along the shore. The boat capsized and sank. Potts, an indifferent swimmer, almost drowned. They lost the trade goods, three blankets and a wool coat.
Once the Expedition had re-crossed the Rockies headed east, Collins was assigned to the detachment led by Sgt. Ordway who were responsible for taking the canoes from the headwaters of the Jefferson River down to the Missouri and a rendezvous with Lewis’s detachment near the mouth of the Marias River.
In early August, Collins and John Colter returned to the river from a hunting foray to find that their mates were not where they thought they should be. Unlike George Shannon, who got lost when he thought the Corps was ahead of him, Collins and Colter settled down to wait for the party to catch up. After a few days they realized their mistake and deadheaded down the Missouri in their canoe. They were “missing” about nine days.
Following the Expedition, John Collins is nearly absent from history for seventeen years. He sold his land warrant to interpreter George Drouillard for $300. In 1823 he was a member of the large party taken up the Missouri by fur trader William Ashley. In late May, Ashley’s two keelboats reached the fortified villages of the Arikaras, who occasionally caused traders considerable trouble. Ashley purchased some horses from the Arikaras to outfit an overland party. To manage the horses, about forty men from the boats camped on a sandbar. That night, an Ashley man who had gone to a village to take advantage of Arikara hospitality was murdered and his body mutilated.
When the sun rose, the Indians opened fire on the men and horses on the sandbar. Most of the horses and several men were quickly cut down. The survivors took cover behind dead or dying horses and tried to return fire. As the boats began to drift downstream away from the Arikaras, the warriors came out to press their attack against the shore party. Those who could manage it swam out to the boats or drifted with the current downstream to safety. Several men were killed in the river by Arikara bullets. Eleven of Ashley’s men were wounded in the fight, thirteen killed. It was one of the worst defeats of an American party in the annals of the fur trade. Among the thirteen dead was John Collins.

A GILL A DAY Lyrics and Music by David Dean White Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved Key Am Am C G We rise at dawn eat our meal and begin our daily tasks Am C G The sun and wind the clouds and rain our ever-present friends Am C G The river’s mood is clearly shown by it’s rising and it’s falling Am C G The nightingale’s call at evening time foretells the end of day Chorus 1 Am C A Gill a day A Gill a day G We soldiers allowed a Gill a day Am C The ardent spirits warm our hearts G And help us ease our pain Am C G We travel the river mile by mile slowly against the current Am C G My hands are blistered my neck is burnt even my back feels broken Am C G The river demands my every breath and every ounce of my strength Am C G The nightingale’s call at evening time foretells the end of day Chorus 2 Am C A Gill a day A Gill a day G Four fingers of whiskey a Gill a day Am C The ardent spirits warm our hearts G And help us ease our pain (Instrumental Break) Am C G We move forward towards our goal each and every day Am C G The rations we eat are made complete with the bounty of the land Am C G Most beautiful place on God’s green earth Missouri homeland Am C G The nightingale’s call at evening time foretells the end of day Chorus 1 and 2

What the song, Snags and Sawyers, is about.

Manholes on the Mo
Sometime in the more or less distant past, springtime floodwaters deposited rich loam on the floodplain here, then ran on downhill toward the Gulf of Mexico. These cottonwood trees, Populus deltoides (PO-pu lus del-TOY-deez, poplars triangular) took root in the hospitable soil, reaching down to drink, holding on for dear life.Annually, the river sips away at the banks and claims what it left there back then. In due time the cottonwoods succumb to the river's subversion, lie down in the depths, and become snags. They are submarine sieves, straining through their flailing limbs and naked rootwads all the flotsam the river brings their way. Sometimes, even today, they trap boats and, occasionally, boaters. They are open manholes on the riverine boulevards of the West.All the snags' branches wave under the water much as they blew in the wind. Those that protrude above the river's surface also oscillate in the current, as if to warn sensible creatures away. These are called sawyers.Captain Lewis recorded an encounter that Sergeant Ordway and Private Willard had with a gang of sawyers on the night of August 4, 1806, somewhere downstream from the mouth of the Milk River.
Ordway and Willard delayed so much time in hunting today that they did not overtake us untill about midnight....In passing a bend just below the gulph, it being dark, they were drawn by the currant in among a parsel of sawyers, under one of which the canoe was driven and throwed Willard who was steering overboard. He caught the sawyer and held by it. Ordway with the canoe drifted down about half a mile among the sawyers under a falling bank. The canoe struck frequently but did not overset. He at length gained the shore and returned by land to learn the fate of Willard whom he found was yet on the sawyer. It was impossible for him to take the canoe to his relief. Willard at length tied a couple of sticks together which had lodged against the sawyer on which he was and set himself adrift among the sawyers which he fortunately escaped and was taken up about a mile below by Ordway with the canoe; they sustained no loss on this occasion. It was fortunate for Willard that he could swim tolerably well.Snags and sawyers that break loose during high water can congeal into log jams, which the French-Canadian boatmen with the Corps would have called embarrass—"hinderances." These often completely block a channel, and have to be pulled apart, at great risk to the boatmen.
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In the days of Lewis and Clark, the Missouri River was a wild, tangled network of multiple channels, islands and sand bars, choked with drifting logs and ice, filled with snags and sawyers, and subject to sudden floods. Sawyers were trees that slowly bobbed up and down in the muddy water; they could appear without warning and rip open a ship's hull. During the steamboat era of the mid-1800s, many ships were equiped with iron plates on the bow to guard against such dangers. Nonetheless, many steamboat accidents attested to the fickle nature of the Missouri River.
River distance upstream from St. Louis is considerably shorter nowadays compared to the untamed Missouri River. The modern channel has been shortened and straightened by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This channel is contained within levees and is maintained by dredging, in order to allow barge traffic as far upstream as Sioux City. The effects of this river control can be seen in South Dakota--note last image above. Upstream from Sioux City, the river is relatively wide and shallow; many islands are present in the stretch between Vermillion and Yankton. Beginning near Sioux City and downstream to the Mississippi, the river is a single, narrow, deep channel that has few islands. Between St. Louis and Omaha, the Missouri River has been shortened by more than one quarter of its historic length.
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Ascending the Missouri River with their keelboat and piroques in1804 demanded tremendous effort from each of the men. Even witha fair wind and the use of a sail, the men still had to haul on the cordell line, and those on board to use their iron tipped setting polesto deflect logs and to push the boat away from sandbars, sawyersand snags. Men not needed to haul on the line or man the boats,hunted game, explored the land, and made observations.
http://www.lewisandclarkhappenings.com/ascending-the-missouri-river.htm


SNAGS AND SAWYERS Lyrics and Music by David Dean White (Boatman’s Lament) Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved Key E E7 A7 D7 E7 Snags and sawyers on the left and on the right the river’s full of hazards E7 A7 D7 E7 The banks are falling in the river is roiling and sun is baking my head E7 A7 D7 E7 Snags and sawyers on the left and on the right the river’s full of dangers E7 A7 D7 E7 Buzzard overhead waiting his turn and my belly wants some supper E 1 2 1 E We push on a pole pull on an oar haul on a rope on the river E 1 2 1 E The wind fills the sail and the flag flies proud as we slowly go up the river E7 A7 D7 E7 Snags and sawyers on the left and on the right the river’s full of hazards E7 A7 D7 E7 The banks are falling in the river is roiling and sun is baking my head E7 A7 D7 E7 Snags and sawyers on the left and on the right the river’s full of dangers E7 A7 D7 E7 Buzzard overhead waiting his turn and my belly wants some supper E 1 2 1 E We push on a pole pull on an oar haul on a rope on the river E 1 2 1 E The wind fills the sail and the flag flies proud as we slowly go up the river (Instrumental Break) E7 A7 D7 E7 Snags and sawyers on the left and on the right the river’s full of hazards E7 A7 D7 E7 The banks are falling in the river is roiling and sun is baking my head E7 A7 D7 E7 Snags and sawyers on the left and on the right the river’s full of dangers E7 A7 D7 E7 Buzzard overhead waiting his turn and my belly wants some supper E7 A7 D7 E7 Snags and sawyers on the left and on the right the river’s full of troubles 1 (fifth string fourth fret and third string second fret) 2 (fifth string fifth fret and third string fourth fret)

What the song, The Mariner's Compass, is about

The Mariner's compass was near the top of the list.


Lewis's Packing List
In preparation for the journey, Meriwether Lewis wrote a list of necessary items to be taken. Due to Lewis's spelling, some of the words may not look familiar to you; please sound them out phonetically to understand them. See http://media.nara.gov/media/images/19/29/19-2831a.gif for a look at the manuscript version of the Indian gifts.
Mathematical Instruments
1
Hadley's Quadrant
1
Mariner's Compas & 2 pole chain
1
Sett of plotting instruments
3
Thermometers
1
Cheap portable Microscope
1
Pocket Compass
1
brass Scale one foot in length
6
Magnetic needles in small straight silver or brass cases opening on the side with hinges.
1
Instrument for measuring made of tape with feet & inches mark'd on it,...
2
Hydrometers
1
Theodolite
1
Sett of planespheres
2
Artificial Horizons
1
Patent log
6
papers of Ink powder
4
Metal Pens brass or silver
1
Set of Small Slates & pencils
2
Creyons
Sealing wax one bundle
1
Miller's edition of Lineus in 2 Vol:
Books
Maps
Charts
Blank Vocabularies
Writing paper
1
Pair large brass money scales with two setts of weights…Arms & Accoutrements
15
Rifle
15
Powder Horns & pouches complete
15
Pairs of Bullet Moulds
15
do. Of Wipers or Gun worms
15
Ball Screws
24
Pipe Tomahawks
24
large knives
Extra parts of Locks & tools for repairing arms
15
Gun Slings
500
best FlintsAmmunition
200
Lbs. Best rifle powder
400
lbs. LeadClothing
15
3 pt. Blankets
15
Watch Coats with Hoods & belts
15
Woolen Overalls
15
Rifle Frocks of waterproof Cloth if possible
30
Pairs of Socks or half Stockings
20
Fatigue Frocks or hinting shirts
30
Shirts of Strong linnen
30
yds. Common flannel.Camp Equipage
6
Copper kettles (1 of 5 Gallons, 1 of 3, 2 of 2, & 2 of 1)
35
falling Axes.
4
Drawing Knives, short & strong
2
Augers of the patent kind…
1
Small permanent Vice
1
Hand Vice
36
Gimblets assorted
24
Files do.
12
Chisels do.
10
Nails do.
2
Steel plate hand saws
2
Vials of Phosforus
1
do. Of Phosforus made of allum & sugar
4
Groce fishing Hooks assorted
12
Bunches of Drum Line
2
Foot Adzes
12
Bunches of Small cord
2
Pick Axes
3
Coils of rope
2
Spades
12
Bunches Small fishing line assorted
1
lb. Turkey or Oil Stone
1
Iron Mill for Grinding Corn
20
yds. Oil linnen for wrapping & securing Articles
10
yds do. do. Of thicker quality for covering and lining boxes. &c
40
yds Do. Do. To form two half faced Tents or Shelters…
4
Tin blowing Trumpets
2
hand or spiral spring Steelyards
20
yds Strong Oznaburgs
24
Iron Spoons
24
Pint Tin Cups (without handles)
30
Steels for striking or making fire
100
Flints for do. do. do.
2
Frows
6
Saddlers large Needles
6
Do. Large Awls
Muscatoe Curtains
2
patent chamber lamps & wicks
15
Oil Cloth Bags for securing provision
1
Sea Grass HammockProvisions and Means of Subsistence
150
lbs. Portable Soup.
3
bushels of Allum or Rock Salt
Spicies assorted
6
Kegs of 5 Gallons each making 30 Gallons of rectified pirits such as is used for the Indian trade
6
Kegs bound with iron HoopsIndian Presents
5
lbs. White Wampum
5
lbs. White Glass Beads mostly small
20
lbs. Red Do. Do. Assorted
5
lbs. Yellow or Orange Do. Do. Assorted
30
Calico Shirts
12
Pieces of East India muslin Hanckerchiefs striped or check'd with brilliant Colours.
12
Red Silk Hanckerchiefs
144
Small cheap looking Glasses
100
Burning Glasses
4
Vials of Phosforus
288
Steels for striking fire
144
Small cheap Scizors
20
Pair large Do.
12
Groces Needles Assorted No. 1 to 8 Common points
12
Groces Do. Assorted with points for sewing leather
288
Common brass thimbles - part W. office
10
lbs. Sewing Thread assorted
24
Hanks Sewing Silk
8
lbs. Red Lead
2
lbs. Vermillion - at War Office
288
Knives Small such as are generally used for the Indian trade, with fix'd blades & handles inlaid with brass
36
Large knives
36
Pipe Tomahawks - at H. Ferry
12
lbs. Brass wire Assorted
12
lbs. Iron do. Do. generally large
6
Belts of narrow Ribbons colours assorted
50
lbs. Spun Tobacco.
20
Small falling axes to be obtained in Tennessee
40
fish Griggs such as the Indians use with a single barbed point - at Harper's ferry
3
Groce fishing Hooks assorted
3
Groce Mockerson awls assorted
50
lbs. Powder secured in a Keg covered with oil Cloth
24
Belts of Worsted feiret or Gartering Colours brilliant and Assorted
15
Sheets of Copper Cut into strips of an inch in width & a foot long
20
Sheets of Tin
12
lbs. Strips of Sheet iron 1 In. wide 1 foot long
1
Pc. Red Cloth second quality
1
Nest of 8 or 9 small copper kettles
100
Block-tin rings cheap kind ornamented with Colour'd Glass or Mock-Stone
2
Groces of brass Curtain Rings & sufficently large for the Finger
1
Groce Cast Iron Combs
18
Cheap brass Combs
24
Blankets.
12
Arm Bands Silver at War Office
12
Wrist do. do. Do.
36
Ear Trinkets Do. Part do.
6
Groces Drops of Do. Part Do.
4
doz Rings for Fingers of do.
4
Groces Broaches of do.
12
Small Medals do.Means of Transportation
1
Keeled Boat light strong at least 60 feet in length her burthen equal to 8 Tons
1
Iron frame of Canoe 40 feet long
1
Large Wooden Canoe
12
Spikes for Setting-Poles
4
Boat Hooks & points Complete
2
Chains & Pad-Locks for confining the Boat & Canoes &c.Medicine
15
lbs. Best powder's Bark
10
lbs. Epsom or Glauber Salts
4
oz. Calomel
12
oz. Opium
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oz. Tarter emetic
8
oz. Borax
4
oz. Powder'd Ipecacuana
8
oz. Powder Jalap
8
oz. Powdered Rhubarb
6
Best lancets
2
oz. White Vitriol
4
oz. Lacteaum Saturni
4
Pewter Penis syringes
1
Flour of Sulphur
3
Clyster pipes
4
oz. Turlingtons Balsam
2
lbs. Yellow Bascilicum
2
Sticks of Symple Diachylon
1
lb. Blistering Ointments
2
lbs. Nitre
2
lbs. CoperasMaterials for making up the Various Articles into portable Packs
30
Sheep skins taken off the Animal as perfectly whole aspossible, without being split on the belly as usual and dress'd only with lime to free them from the wool; or otherwise about the same quantity of Oil Cloth bags well painted
Raw hide for pack strings
Dress'd letter for Hoppus-Straps
Other packing



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Course... Time... Distance... Remarksy far the most common observations were the daily measurements that are found in the journals of Lewis and Clark as "Course...Time...Distance... Remaks. & refurncs". These were intended to be used as the early 19th century equivalent of the guide book from AAA, that tells you how to get from place to place, what sights you're going to see on the way, where to lay up at night, and where to get a good chicken-fried steak.Course referred to the direction the expedition was traveling, stated as a compass bearing between two points. To obtain this bearing, or "azimuth," the captains used one of the pocket compasses or else the larger surveyor's compass (circumferentor) to get direction from one reference point to another .from the point of a bluff along the Missouri's north side, for example, to the tip of a prominent sandbar on the south side of the river (reference points were always identified in the journals). Their compasses registered magnetic north rather than geographic north and their readings had to be adjusted for the difference or "declination." They understood the errors that would creep in as they moved from east to west across the continent and continually adjusted the declination of their compasses to insure accuracy of readings.Time, stated in hours and minutes, was the time required to get from the reference point used to establish the beginning of a course azimuth to the reference point marking the end of that particular compass bearing. Time was established precisely by chronometer .as long as the captains remembered to keep it wound. Because they did forget to wind it regularly there were frequent occasions when travel time was an estimate. But living as close as they did to the natural world, while still having a temporal frame of reference that included hours and minutes and seconds, reasonably accurate time estimates would have been less of a problem for them than for the native peoples who possessed few or no short-term time concepts, or for us latter-day folks who are not only more divorced from nature but have relied for so long on the watches strapped to our wrists that we find it difficult to evaluate time any other way. Still, most of the temporal observations of Lewis and Clark were obtained by timepiece .the chronometer that cost more than all the rest of their "mathematical instruments" combined.Distance was expressed between the same two points used to derive course and time. This was normally given in miles but occasionally in yards or rods. These measurements were obtained either by pacing a course between two points or by estimating distances. Estimations are relatively easy for people having long familiarity with their environment, their own travel paces and their mode of transport. They walked about as often as they rode and this allowed them to judge both time and distances much more accurately than we can while driving a car at speeds that may vary widely (from 15 miles per hour in a school zone to 75 mph on an interstate highway).Their sense of time and distance was more precise than ours because their survival so often depended on it and because they moved across the landscape in very different ways than we do. Throughout the expedition, the captains were reasonably accurate in their measurement of distance. They accomplished this with good guesswork, enlisted men to do the grunt work of pacing out courses, fairly sophisticated instruments and mathematical calculations, and careful attention to detail.
Remarks or reference observations were comments on the widths of the Missouri and the creeks and smaller rivers that entered it, the heights of bluffs or hills along the river, and—most common and most important—the identification of the reference points upon which the compass bearing/distance/direction information was based. Jefferson's directive to Lewis had included the order to note "all remarkeable points on the river, & especially at the mouths of rivers, at rapids, at islands, & other places & objects distinguished by such natural marks & characters of a durable kind, as that they may with certainty be recognised hereafter" and the captains were faithful to these instructions.


MARINER’S COMPASS Lyrics and Music by David Dean White Copyright 2003 All Right Reserved Key D Chorus: D Bm G A We followed the path of the rising sun each and every day D Bm G A After dark we followed the stars pinpoints lighting the way A G A But when the sky went black and there was no light Bm G The compass showed us the way D Bm G D The Mariner’s Compass kept us straight and on the right pathway G D We dined on salt pork deer and rabbit grapes and paw paws too G A Turkey catfish crawfish and squirrel helped to get us through G D The mosquitoes drove us wild and ticks and chiggers too G A Even Seaman our dog was burdened and was a part of the crew (Chorus) (Instrumental Break) G D We passed the town of La Charrette and the Osage River too G A Further along deep in our journey we saw the Big Manitou G D The white bluffs along the river and the sky above so blue G A This land well know to Indians but Americans very few (Chorus) X2

What the song Leaving Camp Du Bois, is about.

When the Corps of Discovery proceeded up the Mississippi, it was not entirely clear as to where the winter encampment would be. The Spanish in possession of St. Louis refused locating there. The corps docked at Cahokia and met a prominent French citizen, Nicholas Jarrot, who owned 400 acres surrounding Riviere du Bois (Wood River). It was determined that this would be an ideal location for the camp. .....On December 12, 1803 the flotilla pulled into Wood River. There on the South bank camp was set up on high ground not too far from the keel boat or the wagon trail to Cahokia......Immediately work began constructing the fort. At the four corners, cabins were built for the enlisted personnel. A longer building housed the officer's quarters as well as the supply room hospital. A palisade wall constructed in the space between protected the camp from wandering strangers, Indian bands and wild animals......While Lewis researched routes to the west and gathered supplies in St. Louis, Clark remained with the troops. Being a U.S. Army until, discipline and vigorous training became a part of the daily life. Soldiers drilled, practiced marksmanship did guard duty and kitchen police. They practiced personal hygiene care and making clothing, hunting game and gaining a respect for authority. Infraction of orders brought court martial and if found guilty, retribution by back lashings or running the gauntlet, severe but effective. .....Significant indeed for the huge success of the mission was the five month wintering at Camp Du Bois. In addition to the training, the troops learned teamwork, pride in accomplishment, enhanced their morale and sprite de corps. These were the ingredients so necessary in overcoming the long journey.

Also, Illinois: The Point of Departure

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition, called the Corps of Discovery, on an epic journey to explore the headwaters of the Missouri River and find an overland route to the Pacific Ocean by way of the Columbia River. Lewis invited his personal friend, William Clark, to join the Expedition, and Clark enthusiastically agreed. Beginning with their arrival near present-day Cairo in November 1803, and ending with their official departure from Wood River on May 14, 1804, the Corps spent more than six months in what is now the State of Illinois.

Both geographically and historically, the territory now known as Illinois played a significant role in the Lewis & Clark story. On November 11, 1803, the Captains of the Corps arrived with about 20 men at Fort Massac, near present-day Metropolis, Illinois. From November 11th to the 13th, this western outpost of the U.S. Army provided logistical support and a central location for recruiting military and civilian volunteers. Moving upriver, Lewis & Clark honed their navigational skills. They arrived at Fort Kaskaskia, near present-day Ellis Grove, Illinois, on November 27th. Here the Corps socialized with the local citizens and recruited additional volunteers.

On December 3, they headed northward, landing temporarily near St. Louis, then moving on to Cahokia, where they were offered a site to set up a winter camp 25 miles north of there on the River Dubois (i.e., Wood River). On December 12, 1803, the Corps, now over 40 men, landed at Wood River and established Camp River Dubois. This would be their temporary home until their departure on May 14, 1804. Most of the Corps spent Christmas in Illinois. While Lewis continued to make preparations and gather intelligence from his base in St. Louis, Clark remained with the men in Camp River Dubois. The Corps made effective use of this time, drilling, practicing marksmanship, and acquiring and stowing the supplies they would need for the long Expedition. The Captains were keen observers of men and during this period promoted some in rank and weeded out others as troublemakers and laggards.

By early May, with the passing of the last frost, the men agreed it was time to depart on their adventure. Captain Lewis headed to St. Louis once again for final preparations, and, as planned, Clark led the departure of the keelboat and two pirogues from Wood River on the morning of May 14th. Crossing the Mississippi, the boats entered the mouth of the Missouri. Lewis, who later joined the Expedition at St. Charles, recorded the event in his journal: “The mouth of the River Dubois is to be considered as the point of departure.”
The Journey has begun.


LEAVING CAMP DuBOIS Lyrics and Music by David Dean White Copyright 2003 All Rights Reserved Key D D A We left our camp on the 14th day the 14th day of May A D The year of the Lord was 1804 and we felt the water’s spray D A We headed west with 24 souls the future unknown that day A D The muddy Missouri would guide us there and that caused some to pray D A The keelboat would be our home as we rode up the river A D Our big one was 55 feet and had a mast for power D A The pirogue was red and the other white and easily skimmed the water A D Our course was set with no turning back and our mind’s eye set upriver Chorus: G D C G Camp Dubois our winter home on the east side of the Big River G D C D We left you that day to in the month of May to find the blue Pacific Waters (Instrumental Break) D A The sail was full our hopes were high the sky was blue that day A D We soldiers and boatman toiled and sweat to earn our daily pay D A The river held secrets and mysteries and was our wet highway A D The Corps of Discovery and Lewis and Clark began our adventure today (Chorus) X2 G D C G Camp Dubois our winter home on the east side of the Big River G D C D We left you that day to in the month of May to find the blue Pacific Waters

If your in town - come on down.

Hi folks, I will be performing at Cooper's Landing from 4 to 5 pm on Saturday. Right on the banks of the Missouri River (inside). I will be playing instrumentals on Dobro and songs from Lewis and Clark Part One: To the Missouri Breaks.
Here is a new site of mine for you to enjoy. Leave a comment in my guest book.
http://www.norecordlabel.com/newbandpage.php?b_id=3182
DDW

The World's Greatest Dobro Player?

Miss Connie and I went the the Mizzou Arena, formerly the Paige Arena, this Sunday 12/5/04. We went to experience the Alison Kraus and Union Station band. They, in my opinion, were excellent! However, when Alison introduced the band she made special recognition of Jerry Douglas as the "WORLD'S GREATEST DOBRO PLAYER."
NOT! Is this part of his contact?
Jerry is an excellent resophonic guitar player. But, if not for Uncle Josh (Burkett) Graves, Bashful Brother (Beecher Kirby) Oswald, Jenks Carmine, Mike Auldridge, Ferrell Stowe, and a list of other Dobro players as long as my arm and beyond, Jerry is just Jerry.
His claim to fame is Tim Sheerhorn's Resophonic Guitar. Currently $5000 bucks a pop. Remeber always, "it's NOT the guitar , but the player."
I enjoyed his performance on a Guernsey ("Man of Constant Sorrow"), Jerry Douglas Model Gibson dobro, Beard (his solo bit) and Sheerhorn resophonic guitars. His used multiple special effects pedals, vintage expensive mics and Ernie Ball volume pedal. This is a no no in my view except for the mics and volume pedal.

I even tried to get backstage, but was turned down by his management due to limited time availability. It was worth a shot.

Mainly, I am concerned with the World's Best Title. Jerry is a great player in his genre of Dobro. However, the modern sound of dobo by players such as Jerry, is taking the HEART and SOUL out of the resophonic guitar.
It's not about how many hammer on's or pull off's you can do in a minute. It's about expressing your SOUL on one of the world's most expressive intruments. To his credit, some of his solos where filled with SOUL.
Hey Jerry, don't hold this against me. I still would like to meet you in person and jam with you.
DDW

p.s.
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http://www.gotricities.com/content/article.dna?idNumber=030723103349
http://joshgraves.9f.com/
http://www.tennessean.com/obits/archives/02/10/23929198.shtml?Element_ID=23929198
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http://www.wsmam.com/filter.asp?fi_key=26&co_key=436
http://nashvilleportraits.com/NPhtml/BrotherOswald.htm
http://www.mikeauldridge.com/
http://www.resoguit.com/
http://www.gibson.com/products/oai/dobro/douglas.html
http://www.beardguitars.com/
http://www.resoguit.com/tunes.htm
http://w1.865.telia.com/~u86505074/capomuseum/Special/Dobro/resophonic.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~dobro/
http://members.tripod.com/~dobro/tabs.html
http://www.squareneck.com/Dobro%20Links.htm
http://www.singout.org/ssti481.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobro

1968 Fender Princeton Amplifier

I love small low watt amps, especially by Fender. One of my favorites is the 1968 Fender Princeton. It's a Silver Face Fender with Blackface guts.
Read and learn http://www.thetubestore.com/inonfenlatbl.html
This amp is a classic in ever respect
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What makes my Princeton so special is the stock JBL speaker. The tone is creamy and articulate.
http://www.ampwares.com/ffg/index.html
http://www.tcguitar.com/pages/gagliano.html
JBL's are simply the best speaker ever made. James B. Lansing is the MAN!
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It's the one of the coolest amps I ever played through.
http://www.geocities.com/princerev2/
Try one, you will like it.
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DDW

Rule 1 and 2

Music can be a crazy business sometimes.
Over the years I have developed two Rules from experience.
Rule #1 Don't depend on anyone else to do it for you.
Rule #2 Don't give up on your dream.
I am glad to say, on saturday Dec. 4, 2004 I will be performing my solo show at Cooper's Landing http://cooperslanding.net/
I will perform songs from "Lewis and Clark Part One: To the Missouri Breaks," and the "Cooper's Landing" song. http://cdbaby.com/cd/ddwhite

The events of the day are
tentitive schedule is this:I may move Dave back to 5 and give RCT two hours don't know at thispoint. Might find someone else to play.. so I am holding it open. Tellyour friends to come on down and buy some legal beer at Cooper's. He hashis license back!!! and we are going to party. Randy is cooking up ribsfor sale to folks and I hear the musicians are going to get some too...solet's get a crowd down there for saturday....SATURDAY2 -- Dale Palmer3 -- Steve Meyerhardt4 -- Robyn Ricks5 -- River Cowboy Tour6 -- Dave White7 -- 8 -- Keith Fletcher9 -- Dave Bandy

I was going to have some folks play with me, here some of the responces
Dave,

I am not sure that the 4th will work for me. I am playing at Mo Jo's with Chris that evening. I need to be there around 5p.m. so if you can get one of the earlier time slots I may be able to make it. I appreciate the invitation and I will play if I can. My schedule is fairly open on the 11th. Keep me posted.

Thanks,

Rick

Hey All

I should be able to make it depending on the time slot. later afternoon, evenings is best for me.

How was the anniversary gig! I'm sure you guys had em dancing!!!!

Mark

Well, I had so much fun last time I joined you all, that sure, count me in. I think it best that I only do an hour or so. I don't want to mess up what you normally do. And, I am a good and willng listener, as in the audience. Fiddle tunes are easy for me to join in, and, we could always give some of those fishing tunes another go, if you're game. I'm (and Steve, too) playing with the Dogwood Dulcimers in Fulton for the Victorian Christmas thing on the evening of Dec. 4th. But, Dec. 11th is open. Let me know what you decide. I'm game. Thanks a bunch for the invitation. ~Linda

Dave et al,
I am out of commission on the fourth of December - pre arranged deal and no wiggle room. I think I am available to participate on the eleventh. I will check back later - things are a bit busy this week.