text: Evolutionary biologist Jonathan Eisen started collecting field guides as a child. His grandmother always carried plant field guides with her, he says. While he didn't care much for plants, birds did strike his fancy. Now, he has plenty of bird guides, including multiple editions of his favorite, Field Guide to the Birds of North America. He has guides to forests, trains, mushrooms, butterflies, insects and space. Some are rare first editions more than 100 years old. In fact, Eisen has hundreds of field guides stashed at home, in his mother's house in Maryland, and in his office, from where he often watches hawks. Field guides are great, he says, because they democratize learning. "It's taking something that is in the ivory tower and giving it to everyone," he said. Eisen shared some of his favorite guides with Wired, including guides to roadkill, birders and mushrooms. We've also included some additional guides to radiation, bird poop and the end of the world. Images: 1) Eisen's collection of field guides. Jon Snyder/Wired. 2) Jonathan Eisen poses with his field guides and toy E. coli. Jon Snyder/Wired.Field Guide to the Birds of North America This bird tome, now in its sixth edition, is by far Eisen's favorite field guide, and he owns several editions. His most current version is pretty worn, with pages falling out and the cover detaching pretty easily. The back pages are covered with notes and tally marks counting up more than 250 birds he's checked off from the list of featured aves. A fellow birder once told him this was the best bird guide around and he's been using it ever since. Images: 1) Jon Snyder/Wired. 2) Markings on Eisen's copy of Field Guide to the Birds of North America. Jon Snyder/Wired. 3) Jonathan Eisen with his favorite guide. Jonathan Eisen.Una Guia de las Aves de Venezuela Eisen's Spanish language copy of A Field Guide to the Birds of Venezuela contains almost 1,300 species and is the result of about 200 expeditions throughout Venezuela. The book holds a special place in Eisen's collection because it helped him woo his future wife. They were both enrolled in a class at Harvard in 1988 that offered a trip to Venezuela in January 1989. On the trip, American Airlines lost his luggage. Eisen only had his binoculars, camera, insulin (he's diabetic), the clothes on his back, and his bird guide. As he was trekking along, he spotted a bird he hadn't seen before (one of the red and green birds pictured below). He pulled out the book from his satchel, and it fell into a ravine. Eisen went after it. He got his clothes dirty and wet, but he retrieved it successfully. "I've got no clothing, but I got my bird book," he remembers thinking. He ended up asking his future wife for help shopping for clothes because she was fluent in Spanish. Over the next three weeks, they got to know each other and she helped him decipher Una Guia de la Aves de Venezuela. Images: 1) Jon Snyder/Wired. 2) The page that Eisen was trying to look at when the book fell in to the ravine. Jon Snyder/Wired.Land Birdy Bird Guide and The Red Book of Birds of America These two small field guides are some of the oldest in Eisen's collection. Image: Jon Snyder/Wired.A Field Guide to North American Birders Spying on bird watchers might be just as fun as looking for birds. This tongue-in-cheek book features 39 "species" of birders, their distinguishing characteristics, ranges and habitats. Among them are the Opinionated Jay, the Saturday Morning Kinglet, Audubon's Solitaire, Laser-tongued Shrikes and the Scope-Weaseling Warbler. Images: 1) Jon Snyder/Wired 2) Eisen, who's been a birder since he was a kid, holds up A Field Guide to North American Birders__,__ published in 2001 by Berkley Trade. Jonathan Eisen.Some Edible Mushrooms and How to Cook Them Eisen said he often uses Nina Lane Faubion's book to identify mushrooms he puts in salads, but he says he'd also like a guide to inedible mushrooms. While a Google search for "field guide to inedible mushrooms" pulled up zero hits, there is, however, a field guide called North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Mushrooms. Image: Jon Snyder/Wired.The Plants of Yellowstone The Plants of Yellowstone describes the fauna of America's first national park. "This was my grandmother's. She was always into Identifying plants wherever she went," Eisen said. Image: Jon Snyder/Wired.Skyguide: A Field Guide to the Heavens Mark Chartrand describes the atmosphere, galactic nebulae, galaxies, stars and our solar system. His book also spells out how to use astronomical instruments like telescopes and binoculars for skywatching and how to use star charts, sky maps and maps of the constellations. Image: Jon Snyder/Wired.A Field Guide to Animal Tracks Mammologist Olaus J. Murie's book on animal tracks describes the habits, tracks, signs and ranges of North American mammals. According to the publisher, it has "every type of clue a tracker needs." The guide includes more than 1,000 illustrations of tracks, track patterns, droppings and chewed up trees. Chasing mammals, as opposed to birds or insects, is fun because "they are furtive, usually silent and very often go about the night," Murie writes in the introduction. "Their very aloofness is a challenge, and your sleuthing instinct will be aroused." Rawr. Image: Jon Snyder/Wired.Flattened Fauna: A Field Guide to Common Animals of Roads, Streets, and Highways This was among the quirkiest guides Eisen showed us. Jed Clampett may have liked this one. Unlike his other animal books, this one is about dead critters. The images are black, flattened versions of what an unfortunate critter might look like after encountering a set of speeding tires. If you're thinking black, rodent-shaped fruit roll-up, you've got the right idea. Eisen has the first edition, but you might want to get the updated version, which features a road sign with a smoothed out creature. Russell Neches, Eisen's graduate student, has leafed through the book with his mother, who has a copy. "She has a bit of a macabre sense of humor," Neches said. "My sister and I were as horrified as my mother was delighted." The guide is full of (dark) hilarity. It includes an introduction to the study of road fauna (who knew there was such a thing!); information on where you might find certain formerly wild wildlife, like snakes, birds and mammals, as well their flattened dimensions; and a recap of the history and future of road fauna. This dead discipline is germane because "at a time when the total world fauna is surely shrinking in both absolute numbers and species complexity, the road fauna is clearly increasing," author Roger M. Knutson writes. He's not the only one who thinks so. A 1996 study looked at the effects of roads on fauna casualties. Identifying areas where road accidents threatened animals like the koala, squirrel glider, and southern brown bandicoot was part of a wildlife management plan in Australia. But this book has a less serious tone than these. Here's an excerpt from the introduction that sets the mood pretty darn well: "A guide to live animals would work well as a guide to the merely dead, since the descriptions in most guides to live animals are based on dead, stuffed animals in museums. However, a guide to the animals of the road has a specific reason for being: In becoming part of the road fauna celebrated in this book, an animal loses not only its life but also its third dimension," reads the introduction. "It is not there by accident, although it certainly did not plan its abrupt arrival.The road fauna is made up of creatures who are victims of their own habits -- feeding habits, reproduction habits, or aggressive or agnostic behavior habits." Scraper not included. Images: 1) Jon Snyder/Wired. 2) Ten Speed Press. 3) A flattened bird from the field guide. Jon Snyder/Wired.Edible and Useful Plants of California Charlotte Bringle Clarke's book is part field guide, part cookbook. She describes the native and modern uses of more than 220 California plants. Clarke saw her book as being part of the back-to-nature movement. Image: Jon Snyder/Wired.Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his "Little Animals" Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, used microscopes he built himself to look at single-celled organisms he dubbed "animalcules." Van Leeuwenhoek "did the first drawings of microbes with his microscopes and they're completely awesome," Eisen said. "He used to scrape his cheeks and then look at the scrapings under the microscope." Van Leeuwenhoek's guide to animalcules is available for free (pdf). Image: Jon Snyder/Wired.A Field Guide to Bacteria and A Field Guide to Germs Eisen refers to Betsey Dexter Dyer's A Field Guide to Bacteria and to Wayne Biddle's A Field Guide to Germs as great first attempts at field guides for microbes: They are must-reads for people interested in microbial life. Dyer's book isn't a tipsheet for germaphobes on how to avoid evil bacteria. It's a guide for how to see and smell bacteria, the most abundant organisms on Earth. After all, they're everywhere, in hot springs, mud flats and our own refrigerators. And often you don't even need a microscope. Biddle penned A Field Guide to Germs "to sort out what's worth worrying about from what is merely fodder for those who can profit from paranoia," he wrote. In the book, he describes 100 historically, interesting and troubling microbes, like adenoviruses, anthrax, whooping cough, Lyme disease and Chinese restaurant syndrome. In his office, Eisen, who proposed a more complete field guide to microbes, has a collection of plush germs. When he came home the day the toy microbes arrived at his house, he found his kids playing with anthrax, E. coli, malaria and athlete's foot. His then six-year-old daughter greeted him with, "Look Daddy! I have chlamydia," he said. "She now knows it makes it hurt when you pee." Image: Jon Snyder/Wired.What Bird Did That? A Driver's Guide to Some Common Birds of North America In case you were wondering what birds made your car look like a bad Jackson Pollock painting, Peter Hansard and Burton Silver's guide to bird poop will help you identify the culprits. It's got information on more than 40 varieties of feces from more than 40 species, including mallards, turkey vultures, mourning doves and peregrine falcons (Eisen's favorite birds). Image: Ten Speed Press.A Practical Guide to Clinical Bacteriology This is "a field guide to festering wounds, excrement and vomit and their various colors, textures and smells," Neches said. "[My mom] used to read this to us over breakfast when I was in 4th grade." Nom. Image: Wiley.A Field Guide to Radiation We live in a proverbial radiation quilt. Nuclear power, x-rays, ultraviolet rays, muons, microwaves, radio waves and electromagnetic radiation are everywhere. In case you were wondering how you should navigate around these, Wayne Biddle's A Field Guide to Radiation will be available July 31. Image: Penguin.Stories in Stone New York: A Field Guide to New York City Area Cemeteries & Their Residents Douglas Keister's field guide includes information about Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the St. Patrick's Cathedral crypts, Grant's tomb and Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, where owners can be interred next to their pets. The book also contains GPS directions to the graves of famous and lesser-known "residents." Image: Gibbs Smith.Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse: The Official Manual for the End of the World This might be the quintessential get-ready-for-Dec. 21, 2012 guide. Jason Boyett writes about potential antichrists, eschatology (apocalyptic theory), and an armageddon grab bag. If want more information on how things may come to an end, check out our primer on scientific doomsday scenarios. Image: Relevant books.The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead If you survive the apocalypse and you find yourself surrounded by zombies, this book could come in handy. Max Brooks describes zombies' physical characteristics, behaviors, defense tactics (shark suit, Molotov cocktails, slingshots, power tools), recorded zombie attacks, and how to outrun them. Image: Three Rivers Press.


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For all of the generosity and activism of the Sounders FC faithful, nobody could have expected the sight at the George & Dragon Saturday night when supporter group Gorilla FC held a fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders, supporting medical relief after the disasters in Haiti.
With hundreds of fans flowing through the Fremont pub beginning well before the scheduled start time of 5:30, the donations totaled a remarkable $11,951 aided by the presence of Sounders FC defenders James Riley and Patrick Ianni and midfielder Steve Zakuani. And while the host pub donated $1,500 and other patrons filled a plastic tube with nearly $3,000 in cash and checks, what left the masses buzzing into the night was the story of a 14-year-old boy who waited at the door to donate his birthday money for the cause.
When the teen arrived with his mother, he knew he wouldn't be able to come inside the 21-and-over pub, but wanted to contribute nonetheless. So when he got to the door, he handed over his contribution of $209 and was hoping for an autograph. Hearing of the boy's charity, Ianni sprung from the autograph table and hand-delivered signed photos to him at the entrance.
"Our fans surprise me at every turn," said Ianni. "Every game, every time I'm around them, they just continue to surprise me."
Sounders FC Vice President of Business Operations Gary Wright also matched the generous donation from the teen.
Gorilla FC has been active in community outreach and charitable efforts all through the last year. It all started with a modest event for Seattle anit-violence organization Home Alive, an organization that Gorilla FC continues to support, that saw roughly 25 people raise $300. The supporter group has grown considerably since that event and was aided greatly by the Sounders players who committed to singing autographs and posing for pictures to help raise money for the event.
"I knew I could do all the behind the scenes work and if I could get them involved, I knew it would be successful," said Gorilla FC founder Kevin Zelko.
Shortly after the January 12 earthquake struck the already poverty-stricken Caribbean island nation, Zelko reached out to Zakuani, who recruited Riley and Ianni. With the US National Team facing Honduras on Saturday – just two days before the start of Sounders FC training camp – it became a natural fit to organize a fundraiser around the international friendly.
But the response was well beyond expectations.
"Seattle always comes through over the top. To come out and support the travesty in Haiti with this many people is phenomenal. We're more than happy to be a part of it," Riley said.
"It blew us away. As soon as I walked in, it was unbelievable," Zakuani said. "It's good to meet the fans and sign the autographs, but it's about Haiti, so it's fantastic."
In addition to autographs and pictures, the players also offered up game-worn shoes and other memorabilia to be auctioned and raffled for the cause.
"Everybody that came was happy leaving. It was wonderful to see the spirit. Having the Sounders involved really put this thing together," Zelko said. "Having great people involved and putting the spirit forward and continually putting forth the effort to do what you think is right … it pays off."
Meanwhile, at Atlantic Crossing, the Emerald City Supporters greeted Sounders FC draft picks David Estrada, Mike Seamon and Jamel Wallace, along with coaches Sigi Schmid, Brian Schmetzer and Tom Dutra.
"The three draftees probably aren't used to being in a community that cares so much about soccer, so we gave them a taste of what to expect from the Sounders fans this year," said ECS's Greg Mockos. "It was great to have the coaching staff stop by too. That was a cool surprise."
Organized by Keith Hodo of the ECS and US National Team supporters American Outlaws, their efforts raised a further $1,700 for the Red Cross fund for Haiti.
"Hopefully this generosity continues. It's pretty cool that the soccer community is so engaged," Mockos said.
For further information on donating to the Red Cross, visit www.weareecs.com. And for more information on Doctors Without Borders, visit www.gorillafc.com.

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Ninja Neo-Colonialism
When it comes to colonialism, the US has tended to take a different approach than our European forefathers. The Belgians had their "chop off a hand if they aren't working hard enough" method, the French used a "leave the country in even worse shape than you found it" doctrine and everyone tended to embrace the "prop up a minority tribe and give them weapons so everyone else hates them but they fight each other instead of us" hypothesis. The US, after a failed attempt in the Philippines at European style colonialism, invented a new way. We decided to sow our products and culture on any possible fertile land and then reap the harvest.
You can call it what you like but the US approach has been pretty successful so far. You probably can't find McDonald's in Mogadishu but it's one of the few world capitals where that's true. Yankee hats decorate heads from Morocco to Malaysia and is there anyone who doesn't know who Kobe Bryant is? Neo-colonialism, as it's often called, has even found its way into US diplomacy where baseball and basketball feature prominently in pro-American campaigns in Latin America and China, respectively. Honestly, it's a much nicer kind of colonialism.
That's probably why it's not much of a surprise that the Chinese internet community laughed aside a recent State media editorial claiming that the newly arrived US ambassador to China, Chinese-American Gary Locke, was an American attempt at neo-colonialism. Locke captured quite a few fans before he even arrived when pictures of him buying his own coffee, using a coupon and carrying his own luggage showed up on the internet. The Chinese have a reputation for being frugal and they appreciated seeing these same qualities in the US representative to their country. It's ninja neo-colonialism. You don't realize what is happening until it's already done.
I, for one, applaud this new approach. Appointing an Ambassador who comes from the same cultural background as the country where he will serve and someone who has real experience from his time as governor of Washington and Secretary of Commerce? That sounds less like neo-colonialism and more like common sense to me. Or maybe that's exactly what ninja neo-colonialism is all about.


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Everyone's different; everyone's unforgettable. That's the theme of the upcoming Harley-Davidson 110th anniversary celebration.
Arguably, no one will have more fun at the big event than a very proud grandson of one of the founders -- Willie G. Davidson.
"Pick a favorite bike," WISN 12 News' Kathy Mykleby asked Davidson during a recent On Assignment interview.
"Oh, where do I go?" He said.
Some 350 models are stacked up, strapped in, tucked away in the back room of the expansive Harley-Davidson Museum, commemorating 11 decades of making motor cycle magic.
The 5-year-old museum is all decked out for the big 110th party now.
"Why is it Harley-Davidson and not Davidson-Harley?" Mykleby asked.
"The research doesn't go back that far, because all those guys were in this little shack behind my great grandfather's house trying to put together this bicycle-looking thing with a small engine, and someone took a paintbrush and put it on the door," Davidson said.
"Really? So it was just that simple? The flip of a coin maybe, or who knows?" Mykleby asked.
"It wasn't a corporate meeting of any sort," Davidson said.
"Do you remember your first moment with a Harley?" Mykleby asked.
"Well, my dad was an avid rider, and he rode summer and winter, and in the winter months, he had a sidecar, so if I was a good boy, I got a ride in that sidecar. So I go way back. I was a little guy, and I'd bounce around in that sidecar. I had the disease very early," Davidson said.
He's grown up with the company, designed a number of bikes and served as the CSO -- chief style officer.
"It's just amazing, I mean, how many companies can you think are in that age bracket, that have been through wars, depression, economic ups and downs, and the magic of this company I think has a lot to do with the emotion and the connection to the riders," Davidson said.
He celebrated his 80th birthday this summer.
"I don't want to get too personal, but you seem like you are in fabulous health," Mykleby said,
"Yeah, yeah, pretty good. I take a handful of pills," Davidson said.
He still travels and revels around the world.
The prelude to the 110th at the Vatican had the pope blessing bikes.
"And they had all kinds of music there on the beach and a gigantic parade through the city. It was a huge event, in Rome not dissimilar to Milwaukee, and it was tremendous, really sweet," Davidson said.
"How do you stay so humble with all this rumble?" Mykleby asked.
"Humble rumble; I like that. I don't know. I just enjoy the whole company and the people and talking to you about it," Davidson said.
For the record, he wears a helmet these days when he rides.
It turns out, Davidson's favorite bike is a 1920 unrestored Runner.
He said can't wait for the fun of the 110th Anniversary weekend at the museum and Summerfest grounds.


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(CNN) - Apparently, Sen. Rand Paul is a fan of the famed sitcom "Seinfeld" and unsurprisingly, not a fan of Washington.
The Kentucky Republican took to Twitter on Monday to partake in "Festivus," a quirky holiday-esqe tradition popularized in a 1997 episode of the show that is "celebrated" on December 23 and calls for, among other things, the airing of grievances.
Paul sent a barrage of tweets, expressing discontent with politics inside the Beltway - from the Federal Reserve to the just-passed bipartisan budget - interspersed with an assortment of otherwise conventional complaints - including the food in the Senate cafeteria and the D.C. street cleaning schedule.
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And there's the Federal Reserve:
"Seinfeld" writer Dan O'Keefe himself weighed in on Paul's reference the next day.
Well, he should count his blessings that he has a fake board certification as an opthomalogist and that right wingers believe plagerism demonstrates original, out of the box thinking. And needless to say, his suggestion that we need to return to the 2007-08 glory days of right wing economics from which the Fed helped saved this country will receive a happy reception from the reality challenged.
I wonder does he plagiarize his tweets as well.
"Apparently, Sen. Rand Paul is a fan of the famed sitcom "Seinfeld" and unsurprisingly, not a fan of Washington."
I've never watched the show, not even one episode. They had a very serious problem with writing minorities into their scripts. They never really figured out how to do it.
One word describes Rand Paul perfectly and that word is "WEIRDO."
HAH! So his atheism finally has come through!
The Fed is one of the few entities that gets high marks for its reaction to the financial crisis.
So you can thank the Fed for your grocery and gas bills getting out or control.
Huh?!?! According to Tea Party logic, the President is responsible for gas prices increasing.
I just laugh when this guy says anything. As usual he's on the wrong side of every issue and he sounds like a loon.
Great to know he is worried about so many important things.
little do they know.....that some of those so called "tweets" will be more fodder for the Democrats to tell that stuff – when the primaries rolls around – they will end up repeating or "quoting" some of those dumb remarks – when they are running against the republicans – remember, what you say, can be turned around and be used against you, not necessarily in a court of law. – – Hey Rand, if I were you, I would keep my mouth shut – and stop those negative tweets
Where are all of his right-wing Christian supporters? They should be attacking him for celebrating the alternative, anti-Christian holiday of Festivus.
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Well, he should count his blessings that he has a fake board certification as an opthomalogist and that right wingers believe plagerism demonstrates original, out of the box thinking. ... ... ...
And that, pretty much summarizes Rand Paul's mindset on plagiarism, and why he feels that he's done nothing wrong. The right wing is notorius for sending around memos and doctrines, which are chocked full of nutty talking points. The idea is for the recipient to take these scripts that have been passed around and use them verbatim. While it would not be considred plagiarism to use those scripted phrases verbatim, it is standard operating procedure to see stuff and simply copy and paste it into your own speech, article, or whatever.
The silence, so far, about Rand Paul's celebration of the anti-Christian Festivus, from his right-wing Christian supporters, is deafening. It wouldn't be hard to speculate why.
Listen I'm a Democrat, to see some of these comments knocking this guy are stupid. You clowns are not even sure why your against him.
Really people? Rand wants to reign in the NSA. Where are you liberals on that one? And what is wrong with more transparency with the Fed? 85% of Americans agree with that. IS that being a loon when 85% of the public agrees with you? And with the NDAA allowing the military to indefinitely detain US Citizens. Yeah, he's against that too. 100% of the founding fathers would be disgusted with almost every politician in Washington. But not Rand Paul
And regarding plagiarism. He took a few lines from wikipedia. My god, who hasn't done that. You could find every politician misquoting items every day. At least he looked it up somewhere and just didn't blatantly lie like all the others!
Rand is a joke and not fit to shine his father's shoes. RON PAUL 2016.
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I've never watched the show, not even one episode. They had a very serious problem with writing minorities into their scripts. They never really figured out how to do it.
I thought I was the only one Rudy.
Ditto with "Friends". Never watched it.
Paul probably thinkis Festivus is a real thing, another bullet in the imaginary war on Christmas. And, it's not hard to get the religious fanatics riled up since they're already delusional, so get ready for an anti-Festivus campaign.
@ Rand Paul:
Really dude? Nothing else to do?
People are so worried with the Tea Party and they should be!
Why is it that all that Libertarians have to offer is complaints? Gripe moan and wail. Do they all need a higher fiber diet or a dose of ex lax to end their constipated rants? Rant Paul is not Presidential material. He isn't even Senate material.
wow...rand paul tries to be humorous and light-hearted and the libs can't tell the difference btwn that and stupidity or mental imbalance. lighten up for cripes sake.


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…did Mary Todd Lincoln look half as attractive as actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead. And yet Winstead will play that role in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Here's Mary Elizabeth Winstead:
Here's Mary Todd Lincoln:
And that's a young Mary Todd Lincoln.
Of course, it doesn't take a hideous actress to play a convincing MTL; Marjorie Weaver was a hottie, but still managed to make a convincing Mary Todd in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln back in 1939. Mary Tyler Moore played an older Mary opposite Sam Waterston's Lincoln, and she was quite the looker, too.
But this new one is a stretch. There isn't enough latex in Hollywood to make Winstead as visually unappealing as MTL was by the 1860's. My suggestion would be to cast a separate Mary to play her in the later stages of life.
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When I posted the
first Bacon Cooking Test
(October 2004), I knew that I would have to continue to test different ways to cook bacon. I was so sure that a second article would follow that I named labeled that first article as "Part I". Over half a year later, I've finally gotten around to writing up my latest experiments with cooking bacon.
I look at three more techniques in this article (using a fourth cooking method, low heat pan frying, as a control): Microwaving with a Makin' Bacon dish, grilling, and slow baking.
Method 1: Microwaving with a Makin' Bacon dish
There are many specialty dishes designed for microwaving bacon. Some are simply plastic plates with grooves cut in them to catch grease. This one,
the Makin' Bacon dish
(about $10), elevates the bacon on poles. As many as a eighteen strips of bacon (according to the manufacturer), can be cooked at a time on this apparatus (although I think my bacon must be wider than their bacon because only a dozen of my strips would fit).
Since I was only going to be cooking a couple strips, I used only the center pole.
Following the instructions on the Makin' Bacon box, I covered the bacon with a paper towel to reduce potential splatter.
I then microwaved it on high for 90 seconds. The bacon at the top (where it bends over the beam, was thoroughly cooked (almost overcooked). However, some of the fatty parts were still soft and partially unrendered. The texture of the bacon was thick and crunchy (similar to the microwaved bacon from the first test). There was also a slight off flavor to the bacon indicative of heating the bacon to too high of a temperature. It is definitely a very fast way to cook and with the Makin Bacon dish, a reasonable number of pieces can be cooked at the same time.
As advertised, the bacon grease dripped down into the plastic container. The instructions recommend pouring out the bacon grease but why waste a good thing? After the grease cools, simply spoon it out into a storage container and store in the refrigerator. The grease collected was fairly clean with some small pieces of bacon in it.
Method 2: Grilling
I prepared a grill with low heat (about 300-350 degrees) and laid out the bacon onto the cooking surface.
Flipping the bacon every five minutes, they reached doneness in twenty minutes time.
With this method, the meaty portions were chewy (but not overly so) while the fat was light and crisp. There were also no off flavors to the bacon. Because of the texture and flavor, this was Tina's favorite cooking method.
Because the bacon grease dripped down into the grill, there was no grease to collect and save afterward; there was also no clean up required. Depending on the size of your grill, you can cook a great deal of bacon at once.
Method 3: Baking at low temperatures
I seemed to have lost the pictures that accompanied this baking technique - but their not much to look at anyway, it's just an oven.
I laid out strips of bacon onto a wire rack and positioned a wire rack on a foil lined half sheet pan. I placed the pan in an oven preheated to 200°F (93°C) and waited. The theory was that the low heat would penetrate the bacon slowly and as the bacon cooked the fat would render, but without increasing the bacon temperature to a level where the preserving agents of cured meat begin to react and form new compounds producing an off taste (and potentially carcinogenic substances - but more chemicals such as ascorbic acid or erythorbic acid are added these days to help mitigate these effects).
Unfortunately, I do not know how long the bacon was in the oven because I forgot to look at the time and fell asleep. My best estimate is that the bacon baked for about 3 hours.
The baking resulted in extremely straight pieces of bacon that I found to have exceptional taste and flavor as compared to the pan frying and grilling (the microwaved bacon's off taste was really apparent next to the baked bacon). The texture was crispy throughout. Since flavor and texture were great, this is my favorite cooking method. (Tina prefers a little chewier meat and still likes the grilled method the best.)
The long cooking time means this method is best for cooking bacon in large quantities (multiple pans) and then bagging and refrigerating them for future use. The bacon grease collected from the half sheet pan was pure white and completely devoid of charred bits.
Method 4: Pan frying
As a control, I cooked the bacon in the same way as the "winning" method from the
first bacon test
- pan frying. I placed three strips of bacon in a cold pan and placed it over low heat.
After fifteen minutes of cooking while turning the bacon occasionally, the bacon was done. The bacon was light and crispy with a little chewiness to the meat. The grilled method's results came closest to this bacon. The bacon grease remaining in the pan had a pale gray-brown color and was spotted with charred bits and pieces of bacon.
If you're in a rush, microwaving works - but for the best flavor and texture either grill or bake (in advance). If you own a propane grill, cooking bacon over the grill is easier and more convenient than doing it on a stove top. However, if you don't mind spending the time, baking produces the best results with pure bacon grease for use later (may I suggest
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Sir Frederick
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:32 pm
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I have found that slow cooking
(baking) meat consistently produces the best flavor. This even in steaks normally grilled.
I bake with no condiments and no
wire rack. More like a bbq with no
sauce. Sauces can be added when eating, and varied. A variac on a toaster oven or contact grill and a good thermometer take the guess work out and more even heat.
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Here is the inexpensive
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:34 pm
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Cooking bacon, or any fatty food like duck breast for example, requires a slightly differant treatment than most meats. It's best to start by placing the meat, fat side down, in a cold and dry pan. Then the stove is turned to high until the fat begins to sizzle. At this point the heat is turned to medium high until done. This approach allows the fat to gradually render, producing a superior product.
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Claire Eats
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Is there any meat on the bacon you get in america? It is totally different to what we call bacon in Australia
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:35 pm
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re: Australian bacon?
I'm not familiar with the bacon that is sold/served in Australia. American bacon is cut from the belly, cured or smoked. The fat content is about 50% (eye-balling it, not actually measured). Generally streaks and clumps of meat are surrounded by ample areas of fats.
Canadian bacon is cut from the loin and in comparison is not fatty at all. It has a different texture and taste (almost like ham) when compared to American bacon.
Perhaps the bacon sold in Australia is like Canadian bacon?
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:36 pm
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As I understand it, what we in America call bacon is called "streaky bacon" elsewhere in the anglosphere.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:36 pm
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the most commonly available form of bacon here in the antipodes is known as "middle rasher bacon" which comprises the streaky/fatty bit and a generous portion of meat at one end crowned with a small layer of fat. the cut i believe, is from the middle to back portion of the animal.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:37 pm
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watch Good Eats on food network
A B says put your bacon in a cold oven and pre heat to 400 i leave it in about 12 minutes and i'v tired most of the other methods and find this to be successful for flavor plus i even just use my toaster oven if all i want is a little and ajust the time to suit your tastes
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:37 pm
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In Canada, bacon is the same stuff that Americans eat. "Canadian bacon" is usually called "back bacon" here. My dad likes back bacon coated with peameal.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:37 pm
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My Grandfather always has bacon with the "rind" on at his house in SW Arkansas. I'm sure that he bought it from the local butcher. It was always an exotic treat.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:38 pm
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Bacon and a nap! I know what I'm doing on sundays.
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Ah - I can't vouch for it's flavour in comparison to pan-fried or other methods, as it has been many years since I've sampled it this way at my grandparents - but in the microwave, an old newspaper section folded in half withpaper towels in the middle - bacon strips cooked there... just another method to chew on.
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I really enjoy your site, keep up the good work!
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I adore your bacon posts... keep 'em coming! I love the idea of grilled bacon, I'm going to have to try that asap.
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As Dartmouth celebrates the Year of the Arts, marking the 50th anniversary of the Hopkins Center for the Arts, nine engineering majors describe how they bring art and engineering together.
Major: Engineering Modified with Studio Art
Arts Focus: Creative Process
My engineering focus is in product design. My focus for studio art is on the creative process. I really enjoy drawing and drafting because of the steps in the process. I look at a still life initially and do a rough sketch, then look again and go back and refine the lines. I bring my art into other aspects of my life. As a study break I'll sit and draw a coffee cup that's sitting on the table.
Engineering focuses on ideas and processes that can sometimes seem very technical, and you think of studio art as being much more artistic and free flowing. But there's a lot of process and diligence that comes with making a piece of art that I think is very particular to engineering as well. The two come together very nicely.
Engineers benefit a lot by having an art background because it's another way to tackle a situation or assignment. In a product design class you have to think of a lot of different points of view. You have to think about it as a work of art, because you're not just making some clunky piece of machinery, you're making something that somebody is going to want to interact with. Art is an enforcement of everything you should be learning in engineering.
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Major: Engineering with a Minor in Studio Art
Arts Focus: Design
I'm interested in mechanical engineering, the prototyping, the design of simple components and mechanical devices. I've always liked to make stuff and experiment with different designs. My dad's a mechanical engineer and my mom's an artist. The kitchen table would be covered with projects, whether engineering or art. We had airplanes being made, and paintings, drawings, and boats. It was an environment where anything was possible.
I've enjoyed every single class I've taken in studio art. Most engineers could use more art in their lives. Simply being able to sketch things out and understand how to draw simple perspective drawings and convey your ideas helps a lot. You have to not just plan how a product is going to work, but also how is it going to look so you wind up with an aesthetically pleasing device.
The connections stand out in sculpture, where you have to design things that have to stand up on their own without a base or wires holding them up. In both of my sculpture classes the first assignment has been like, here's a pile of cardboard, make something extremely tall out of it. It had to be twice our height using very little material. The engineering aspects that go into that are pretty crazy.
The technical aspect of printmaking—understanding the pressures that go into plates, printing them, the technical process with acids, all this crazy stuff happening at the molecular level—is almost chemical engineering. The attention to detail, the precise etching, relate back to engineering. Printmaking is such a process-driven class. So much repetition goes into making plates and printing them. There's a huge amount of technical stuff you have to learn for printmaking.
I've been working on long-board design and construction. Understanding all of the engineering and art that goes into that has been a huge adventure.
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Major: Engineering Modified with Studio Art
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I was determined not to become an engineer. I thought it was too constraining, and I wanted to travel and have flexibility in my schedule. Then I got involved in Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering and traveled to Rwanda. I saw a practical application for my interests.
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In architecture you balance what you can do in reality and what you want to do with space creatively. You bring the two together. Engineering is analytical and problem-based, but sculpture is similar in approach.
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Major: Engineering Modified with Studio Art
Arts Focus: Photography, Sculpture
My focus is on the creative and innovative aspects of engineering. I also wanted to have a hands-on, purely creative process to complement my engineering study. Studio art fulfilled that.
Engineering has a large aspect of trial and error and refinement. The first iteration is rarely going to be the best one. In modern photography, manipulating a picture—the setting, lighting, aperture, frame—over and over again to make it say something has a lot of overlap with the constant restructuring and rethinking of problems involved in engineering.
My sculpture class connected the most to engineering. Sculpture is in some ways a reduced, more intuitive form of engineering design. It's taking a space or object and making it functional in a way that people wouldn't expect.
My final sculpture project was a three-point structure. We had to pick a body position that wouldn't normally support itself. I chose diving to catch a baseball.
We were given two 2x4s and had to build a structure to support the position. Only a square 1/4-inch could touch the ground at each of the three support points. There were extreme design challenges to tackle. It was similar to engineering in that way, discovering how to best use limited materials to create a functional and aesthetically pleasing product.
Studio art has enhanced my sense of design intuition and has taught me to appreciate the importance of both function and form in engineering.
Major: Engineering Modified with Studio Art
Arts Focus: Creative process
I was born interested in art. When I was little I would play with anything that I could get my hands on to create art. When I was applying to college, somebody suggested to me that I look into engineering. I e-mailed Professor Collier before I visited Dartmouth. I got to sit down with one of his ENGS 21 groups. For me it was a very big light bulb moment, seeing the creative passion.
I always thought that engineering and art clashed because one person is the very logical engineer doing equations and the other person is the very out-there artist. For me it was kind of a bizarre thought to do both. When I got to Dartmouth I realized that there's actually a ton of people doing both.
A lot of what I love about engineering and studio art is the creative process. Whether it is an engineering project or a painting, I love the fact that it's never actually done. Going back and looking at it, figuring out what you don't like about it, getting critiques, and then reworking. The whole cycle is a huge commonality between engineering and studio art. It's that process that really gets me thinking.
I find myself learning things in my engineering classes that will really make a difference in my art. Similarly, learning to think creatively and outside the box in classes like sculpture or architecture has made a huge difference in what I do in engineering. They play off of each other so well.
I read a quote the other day. It said, "Eventually you're going to connect the dots, but for now do what excites you." I read it and thought, that's me. I've always loved engineering and art and eventually I know that it'll end up connecting.
Watch Caroline talk about her focus on the creative process and her interests in engineering and architecture and studio art.
Majors: Engineering, Music
Arts Focus: Music
My research is in biomedical engineering and is a collaboration with Thayer and the Geisel School of Medicine. Using computer simulations of a nuclear event, we compare biodosimetry methods for measuring radiation levels in people. I was drawn to biomedical engineering partially because it is the most related to medicine. I've always wanted to do medicine.
I play piano and violin and am in the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra (DSO). I'm also involved in dance on campus. I'm the vice president of the Dartmouth West Coast Swing Club.
There is scientific research being done on how human bodies respond to music. While I don't think that consciously music was a way to balance engineering, dancing and music make me happy. The engineering major is a lot of work and the music major is a good amount of work, but it is on a totally different side of the spectrum. I really enjoy playing music, and it's a release in that way.
Watch Liliana talk about connections between engineering and the arts and about her artistic focus on music and dance.
Majors: Engineering Modified with Chemistry, Music
Arts Focus: Music Composition
Chemical engineering and musical composition are a lot more similar than people realize. You have an initial idea, and that bit of it is inspiration. Once you have that idea, you have to see if it's good. You have to ask yourself how to develop it, how to make a finished product.
People think of composers as this sort of lofty echelon of people who are walking through fields humming things, and inspiration hits them, and they run back home and write everything down really fast. A few people have done that. But in general what most people do is take an idea and turn it upside down, and turn it the other way, and find ways for instruments to work well together.
How do you connect a melody and a counter melody? What sort of chords can go behind this or that? How do you get from point A to point B? Transitions can be really difficult. A lot of it is actually sitting down with pen and paper and staring at something and saying, "What if I try this?" It's a lot more like a process of creative design than the ethereal process that people seem to think it is. The process is remarkably similar for music composition and any sort of engineering you want to do.
Watch Kristen talk about the intersection of engineering, chemistry, and music.
Major: Engineering Modified with Studio Art
Arts Focus: Design
Because I took Professor Robbie's design thinking class, I'm interested in human-centered product design and human factors research, in going out and finding how people use things and why they do certain things. For example, when companies started doing self-serve gas pumps, everyone would get out of their car to pump, but then they'd have to go back to their car. And the question was, why? Did they forget their debit card? No, it's because they forgot their glasses. The pumps didn't have fonts big enough for people to read. It's little things like that that interest me, trying to find the real root of a problem and the things that don't work.
I think that engineers are well served by having an art background. It goes both ways as well. I'm taking a sculpture class and I'm working on a project that has a water component. I'm trying to figure out how to plug a tub, and all of the materials that I've tried so far are not working. I'm spilling water everywhere. And really trying to figure out how materials work is important and that's a connection to engineering. There's the whole debate over form before function, but the connection for me is trying to find the right balance in it.
I'm all for the liberal arts education. I don't think that engineers should just be engineers. They should know how to write and convey ideas and tell stories and do all the different things that you wouldn't normally think engineers would need to know how to do. If you have this great idea and you can't articulate it to somebody, then it's lost. What better way is there to show that than visually?
Watch Christine talk about her artistic focus on architecture, sculpture, and drawing.
Major: Engineering Modified with Studio Art
Arts Focus: Photography
The brainstorming in engineering, making mock-ups, and prototyping is the same process in art, just a different outlet. In photography you go out with your camera and play around with different framing, exposures, and subjects. Photography has a technical aspect. Developing photos in the darkroom has a very distinct process. You expose the paper for a certain amount of time to get the right tones, then develop it, fix it, and wash it for a certain amount of time. Repeating that process over and over has a lot of application in engineering. Being able to ingrain a process is really helpful in both fields.
I'd like a job in user interface design for a software company, web-based service, or design firm. Art and engineering have tangible applications for that field. It's the process of identifying a problem that you want to frame, coming up with a list of possible solutions, narrowing it down, taking the best ones, and combining them.
Watch Drew talk about his artistic focus in photography.
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
A little more on some of the men in the Fur Trade -- some of them from the West of the Mountains
I have told you that my new blog is up and running, and its address is at http://www.furtradefamilyhistory.wordpress.com
Much of the information on this blog will be familiar to people who have followed this blog from the beginning -- there will however be more coming that you have not heard of.
I am concentrating on that blog at the moment, and so you might feel a little ignored.
Its decorations are coming....
Changes are coming to this blog as well: I will probably keep this going as a research blog, and completed information will be transferred onto the Wordpress blog, where appropriate.
However, to carry on from the previous post, I have learned a few more things about some of the men I have already spoken of.
George McDougall, who built Fort Alexandria about 1821, and who afterward remained in the fur trade on the east side of the Rocky Mountains, was a man I got quite fond of.
It seemed that he was a warm and friendly man who everyone liked.
In a letter from John Rowand of Edmonton House, written from the Saskatchewan District on the 29th of December, 1849.
McDougall went out to York Factory with the express in the command of John Charles.
He returned to Edmonton House and apparently made his way to Fort Assiniboine -- but he never reached his home base at Lesser Slave Lake.
Rowand gave this report: "As the time is approaching for the departure of our annual express, I beg leave to bring under your notice the few incidents that have occurred since my arrival at this place [with the incoming York Factory express].
"The distribution of the Outfit for the several Outposts was completed as early as possible. On the 29th September the several Gentlemen were off for their respective stations. On the 14th October I received intelligence of the death of Mr. Geo. McDougall -- that gentleman died on his way to Slave Lake in the Athabasca River after a short illness of five or six days; in consequence of this unfortunate & unforeseen circumstance on the 16th I was under the necessity of sending Mr. Christie to adjust the Company's affairs of Slave Lake, leaving Louis Chastellain in charge for the time being, as it was necessary for that Gentleman to return hither..."
So now you know. McDougall had no wife and children (though his brother James, did) and so there will be no descendants to be interested in this story. Its almost a shame. Like I said, I found him a very likable man.
Here's a new story, and its a gruesome one! You will remember some time ago I blogged portions of the York Factory Express's journeys from the Columbia, to Hudson's Bay and back.
In one of these journals I mentioned the artist, whose name I thought was Hood.
The actual quote is: "We commenced our ascent of the Trout River, which having done for 1 1/2 miles, we arrived at the Trout Falls, one of the most dangerous rapids or falls on the line of Communication.
"We encampt at the Head of these falls, two of our Boats having fallen again in the rear.
"These falls with the surrounding scenery afforded a fine subject for the Pencil of poor [Hood], but the heightening of the Landscape, by the Silver tints of the Moon's rays shooting above a projecting point of wood on the opposite shore & playing upon the agitated surface of these fierce falls, made me regret that they were not similarly presented to him, as they were to me this evening, which added much of their natural grandeur."
As you see, I wasn't even sure what the artist's name was, which presents quite a challenge.
But I found him immediately.
An article from "Arctic Profiles" tells me his full name was Robert Hood, born in 1797 and dead by 1821.
Hood was a member of the Franklin exhibition, 1819-22 -- a mapmaker who made incredibly accurate maps of the Arctic coastline during this single journey.
But on their return journey, eleven out of twenty members of Franklin's party died -- and Hood was one of them.
From Antony Brandt's book, The Man Who Ate his Boots: the Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage, comes this story.
It is needless for me to tell you that the returning party was in great distress at this time, and separated into various clusters of men were spread over the snowy wastes that surrounded Franklin's Fort Enterprise:
"Eleven men died in all. Not all of them died of starvation. Four men -- Jean-Baptiste Bellanger, Michel Teroahaute, the Iroquois, followed shortly after by Fontana and Perrault -- had left Franklin's party early in October to struggled the five miles back to the willow grove where Richardson, Hood, and Hepburn were camped. Only Michel arrived. Richardson never wrote up in his journal an actual day-by-day account of what happened after that, but he did prepare an official report to the Admiralty. Those days were spent, he said, hunting for the lichen that poor Hood could not eat and trying to snare partridges. Michel came and went as he wished, keeping himself apart, behaving in a hostile and surly manner. One evening he brought back a piece of what he said was a wolf that a caribou had killed with his antlers, and they ate it, but later Richardson would come to believe that it was a piece of a man he brought back, Belanger or maybe Perrault.
"No one knows whether he actually killed these men, or whether they collapsed on the way back to Richardson's camp. It is certain that he killed Hood. By the eighteenth Hood was "so weak as to be scarcely able to sit up at the fire-side, and complained that the least breeze of wind seemed to blow through his frame." He gathered the strength nevertheless to argue with Michel, telling him it was his duty to hunt for them and to bring wood to the fire, which Michel refused to do, while threatening at the same time to leave them and go to the fort by himself. On the twentieth, while Richardson was out of the camp looking for tripe de roche, he heard a gunshot, and Hepburn yelled to him to return right away. Hood was in their tent, shot through the head. Michel claimed that Hood had shot himself, but that was impossible. He had been shot through the back of his head, with a rifle. "Although I dared not," Richardson explained, "openly to evince any suspicion that I thought Michel guilty of the deed, yet he repeatedly protested to me that he was incapable of committing such an act, kept constantly on his guard, and carefully avoided leaving Hepburn and me together."
"The next day they set out for Fort Enterprise. On the twenty-third, as they were struggling south, Michel began threatening them, told them he hated the white people, by whom he meant the French voyageurs, "some of whom, he said, had killed and eaten his uncle and two of his relations." Michel was well armed. He had besides his gun "two pistols, an Indian bayonet, and a knife." Hepburn and Richardson had no strength left and expected him to turn on them at the first opportunity. When they came to a rock where there was some tripe de roche, Michel stayed behind to gather it, and Richardson and Hepburn seized the opportunity, the first they had had, to compare notes. Hepburn offered to do the deed, but Richardson said no, he would do it himself. when Michel came up to them, Richardson put a bullet through his head. Then they looked in his pouch. Michel had in fact gathered no tripe de roche."
So there you are. In the Arctic Profiles article, mention is made of the cannibalism that occurred on this long foot journey, and Franklin himself said, on his arrival at Fort Chipewyan: "To tell the truth, .. things have taken place which must not be known." It is clearly stated that "Richardson and Hepburn, his two remaining companions in the straggling rearward group, owed their survival in part to eating, knowingly or unknowingly, some human flesh and Hood's buffalo robe."
All of John Franklin's explorations in the Arctic (except those done by ship, I presume) were done under the auspices and with the help of the Hudson's Bay Company. They are stories of exploration, but they are also fur trade stories.
Some of you will know that the original quote from whence I started the above story was written by the fabulous failure, Lieutenant Aemelius Simpson, cousin of the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, who was travelling to the west coast to take charge of one of the HBC's ships.
In his Lives Lived, Bruce Watson has this to say of him:
He was born in Dingwall, Ross, Scotland, and died at Fort Simpson on the Northwest Coast, in 1831.
It was his grave that the furtraders (including James Birnie and Alexander Caulfield Anderson) removed from the old Fort Simpson and buried in the new, in 1834 (page 47 of my book, The Pathfinder.)
Aemelius Simpson "introduced the first apple trees to the North Pacific Coast and had an HBC post named after him... Aemelius joined the Royal Navy as a voluntary midshipman in 1806 and rose to the rank of Lieutenant before retiring in 1816.
"Upon the recommendation of George Simpson in 1826, he joined the company as a hydrographer and surveyor reaching Fort Vancouver on November 2, 1826 as superintendent of shipping of the west coast.
"The following year, he was given command of the Cadboro when it arrived. That year he took soundings in the Fraser River and helped found Fort Langley. Three years later in 1829 he was involved in trading negotiations with the Russian American Company in Sitka.
"He became a chief trader in 1830 and the following year helped to establish a post at the mouth of the Nass River where he died in 1831. The post was later moved to the Tsimshian Peninsula and renamed Fort Simpson in his honour. His body was also removed to the new site, re-interred and surrounded by a white picket fence."
There is more information on Aemelius Simpson, and this comes from The Free Library at http://www.thefreelibrary.com
This source tells us that Simpson had seen much of the world before making his transcontinental journey in 1826, when he was a Royal Navy officer on half-pay travelling as a passenger with the HBC brigade and Columbia express. "He was a novice who lacked the authoritative voice of someone who had spent half his life bartering or animal pelts.."
But because he was a novice, he described a part of the world that the fur traders never did. For this reason alone, his journal is important to some researchers.
Aemelius Simpson's duty on the west coast was to take charge of the little ship Cadboro, which was being delivered to Fort Vancouver from England.
On his death in 1831, Archibald McDonald (then of Fort Langley) wrote: "Among the latter [deaths] we have to lament the loss of poor Lieutenant Simpson who died on board his own vessel .... Independent of his loss to the concern I regret him very much as a private friend. I am sorry to say with you in confidence however, that he was not over-popular with us -- the cause you know as well as I do."
Chief Factor Duncan Finlayson made a similar remark: "He departed this life ... much lamented and regretted and whatever feelings might be entertained toward him during his career in the past of the country there is now but one of general sympathy for his untimely end."
It appears that Lieutenant Simpson was a misfit in the fur trade.
He attempted to bring the protocol and discipline of the Royal Navy to the unruly fur traders west of the Rocky Mountains, and that did not work!
Historian H.H. Bancroft stated (from information he collected many years later) that Aemelius Simpson had demanded that his sailors' "hands must be incased in kid before he could give an order on his own deck in the daylight, and if the occasion was perilous or peculiar, his gloves must be white kid. Form was nine-tenths of the law with him and the other tenth conformity."
But Governor Simpson did not criticize his cousin in his infamous "Character Book."
In fact he praised him (something that did not happen often):
"About forty years of age. A namesake and Relation of my own, whom I should not have introduced into the Fur Trade, had I not known him to be a man of high character and respectable abilities. He has occupied the most dangerous posts in the Service since he came to the country, and his whole public and private Conduct and Character have been unexceptional."
Governor Simpson also later noted that Aemelius was "as good a little fellow as ever breathed, honourable, above board and to the point.
"He may be a disciplinarian but it was very necessary among the Vagabonds he had to deal with.
"The Drunken wretched creature [Thomas] Sinclair could afford him no support, he was therefore under the necessity of doing all the dirty work of cuffing & thunking himself... I have (laying all other claims & feeling aside) a very great respect for his character & high opinion of his worth."
I can't imagine what the above-mentioned "cuffing & thunking" was, but I think you will agree: There are lots of good stories in the fur trade.
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