#1357 The Dempster Highway

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We are joined this week by David Nicandri, one of the most respected Lewis and Clark scholars in the country. His book, "River of Promise - Lewis & Clark on the Columbia" fills a significant gap in our understanding of Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition. Nicandri joins us not so much to speak of that journey, but one of his own. In a fascinating conversation, Nicandri tells us about the journey he and his son took on the Dempster Highway all the way to the arctic ocean.

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0:00.0	Good day citizens and
0:02.0	citizens.
0:04.0	Citizen!
0:05.0	I can't do it.
0:07.0	I can't do the McCandry laugh.
0:09.0	And welcome to this week's,
0:11.0	and I would steal your descriptor and say special edition of the Thomas Jefferson
0:17.0	Hour goodness what a conversation we had.
0:19.7	I love Dave Nacandry.
0:21.7	He's one of my dearest friends. We do belong to what's called the Republic of
0:25.4	Letters, which sounds a little pretentious, I suppose. But back then in Jefferson Simon
0:30.1	meant the group of like-minded people who get together and correspond and see the world in more or less the same way and find each other compelling and explore ideas together and sometimes actual landscapes.
0:42.0	I've known Nacandry for a long time.
0:45.0	In fact, he alluded to this. He talked about vehicles.
0:47.8	Remember at the beginning of our conversation?
0:50.0	And I had written in my book, Message on the Wind,
0:52.4	something about traveling in the badlands with my mother in the And I had written in my book, Message on the Wind,
0:52.5	something about traveling in the badlands
0:54.2	with my mother in this really bad car, my father
0:56.5	had gotten for us.
0:57.9	It was used, really broken down standard transmission. And I said that on a number of our trips into the bad
1:05.8	lands together this would be in the late 1970s that we had had clutch problems and
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