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Re: Harrison's H1: app and replica
From: Bill B
Date: 2013 Apr 08, 01:49 -0400
From: Bill B
Date: 2013 Apr 08, 01:49 -0400
On 4/7/2013 10:31 PM, Brad Morris wrote: > $79 per board foot On a budget? Head for your fence line and cut some Osage orange--which produces "hedge apples." Off topic? Slightly, but no where near recent bridge bolts ;-) http://lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=2523 Meriwether Lewis wrote to Thomas Jefferson from St. Louis on 26 March 1804, a few weeks before embarking on the expedition. "I send you herewith inclosed, some slips of the Osages Plums, and Apples. I fear the season is too far advanced for their success." He had obtained the cuttings "from the garden of Mr. Peter Choteau, who resided the greater portion of his time for many years with the Osage nation." Pierre Chouteau, who had introduced the species to gardens in and around the village of St. Louis at the end of the 1790s, told Lewis he got them "at the great Osage vilage (sic) from an Indian of that nation, who said he procured them about three hundred miles west of that place...' Bill B.
