The direction alone doesnt tell us much about what his objective is here but poncho pass does tell us something. This is the view that pike would have from his Christmas Day camp and for several days before and after. Poncho pass is a low spot in the mountains a little bit to the southwest of the city of saliva and if pike looked south he would have found it very inviting place to cross the mountains. His mission is to get to santa fe. This is as good a place as any to try and do it. If he stands in the same spot and looks to the left he is going to see the high peaks of the northern end of the Crystal Mountains and he will realize if i want to cross its never going to get any better than this so he doesnt. He continues downstream which is exactly the behavior somebody who believed he was on the red river and intending to head home. Decides to cross this andres there would be two men behind on the arkansas. The horses are shot in the plan is to leave a couple of men behind but the hors
Risking their lives instead of staying at home on the ohio river and risking their lives a little bit less. So pike makes the same request of congress. He forged letters from jefferson and dearborn and secretary of state James Madison and things like that in congress, the committee reviewing the request votes in favor of granting him this but by this point the expedition is inextricable from the politics dividing congress over jefferson and burr and wilkinson in general and Congress Never votes. My guess, there is no record of why they dont vote. No one made the decision not to vote but the last evidence we have in the congressional record as of the Committee Voting to bring it to a vote on the floor and then it just disappears until the 1840s when we have a comments by his widow clara who is requesting that the reward be paid to her. By this point she is destitute. Then she dies before they do anything. My guess about whats going on is twofold. One is burr is acquitted and he has a lo
Will talk more about that in a moment. Another tough overnight session for global losses in tokyo and india. The road map begins with the retailers rallying best buy, home depot, urban, and they all beat handily expectations, but slightly different than penny. Missing expectations, but trading up as the investors conclude that it could have been worse and appears to be better for eli musk and tesla. After the retailer posts better than stronger earnings and mobile phones and appliances were the strong components of the quarter while gaming is weak. This stock is at a 2 1 2year high today, jim. It is up 2x for the year and a lot of discussion about huber joe l jolie, and if they have found the answer to amazon. Well, that is very good and the gaming is the going to be good in the Fourth Quarter and we have new iterations, and i like gme. This is a remarkable turn, and sometimes you have to say remarkable. Some people have gotten it right. Joey has gotten it right, and shows you how poor
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