Big Medicine ~ The York’s Story Expedition
By invitation, and under contract with the National Park Service, I was asked in 2024 to help organize a retracing of American history. So, I assembled a small group of storytellers to paddle a section of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, in Montana, called the White Cliffs. Two hundred and twenty years ago this summer, a band of explorers traversed this same stretch of land, part of what was once called the Louisiana Purchase. Then President Thomas Jefferson had commissioned a team – known as...