 But then after the US-Mexico War, he goes to the Pacific Northwest, to Oregon and Washington, and makes notes and observations like all army officers do. And the primary source that y'all are going to be reading for this class is an army officer's journal, right? Lawrence Kipp's Journal of the Pacific Northwest in the 1850s. And it's about warfare on the one hand, but it's also about exploration. But the army wasn't a lucrative living.