Able's Bow

Ian Bratt · 14 Nov 2009, 22:43 · from 2009-November.txt.gz

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From: telemarker at gmail.com (Ian Bratt)
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:43:18 +0100
Subject: (urth) Able's Bow
Message-ID: <470871550911141443y2bbeba4fi47cf3ba09ba1d492 at mail.gmail.com>

I recently stumbled across this info while reading a bio of Meriwether
Lewis.

When Lewis was wintering in St Louis, the first shipment of natural history
specimens he sent to president Jefferson contained a sample of the Osage
Orange tree. Regarding the Osage Orange, Lewis wrote "So much do the savages
esteem the wood of this tree for the purpose of making their bows, that they
travel many hundred miles in quest of it".

-Insula
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