THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, AND PERILOUS JOURNEYS OF THE FUR TRADE #Blogpost
At Fort Nez Perces #WallaWalla the incoming HBC Brigades of 1826 were forced to go to the Indian camps to purchase their own horses for the Brigades, as the gentleman in charge of Fort Nez Perces was unable or unwilling, to secure enough horses -- this was a chore that the gentleman in charge of the brigades did every year afterwards. #HBCHistory#AmWritingHistory#HistoricJourneyhttps://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-ten/
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic or eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary.
It’s always interesting to find out what’s shaped a garden - personal taste, visits to other plots or, as in the case of Charingworth Court, a holiday.
I’ve been out to this Cotswold garden ahead of its open days for the National Garden Scheme and discovered a touch of Japan.
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh — that is to say, over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation, and of death. There is no serious piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.