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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 th...

Next, astoria by author john jacob. This an is hour and 14 minutes. Thank you powells books and thank you for being here. Normally i have a more formal presentation. I have a reading i show at readings. But tonight is a special night so i am going to do something different. And i want to tell stories a little bit more and, of course, i will do some readings. It is special we are at powells books, we are in oregon, astoria is nearby and we are also here with cspan so we have a national and oregon audience. I will tell stories and you may know some of them and may not some of the others. But i w...

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 la...

And, actually, whats surprising about it is how this story was very well known in its day, in 1836 when Washington Irving was commissioned by John Jacob Astor to write the story of these events 20 years after they occurred. Irvings book, also called astoria, was a best seller of 1836. And those events have been largely forgotten in the american consciousness. I think you in oregon know a little bit more about them, or im sure some of you know a lot more about them. But in the national consciousness, theyre largely forgotten except among historians and people who really follow western history. ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin acknowledges china, has concerns about the ukraine boys. He sits down to talks with shebang. Ah, hello, i am emily anguish. This is al jazeera alive from dough house are coming up. Thousands of mourners paid their final respects to Queen Elizabeth as her body lies in state at westminster. Home. The un welcomes as c spy between our mania and as a by john, after 2 days of violence, leads more than 170 people dead. And why food and water and medical supplies are running low and the occupied at west bank will hear from the red cross about whats needed. Ah, welcome ...