Returning to America in 1829, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau set aside his cultivated manners and fell into the rough-and-tumble existence of the mountain man. He ranged the length and breadth of the American West, hunting, trapping, guiding and exploring. Unfortunately, Baptiste maintained no diaries or journals, so information about his life is known only through the […]
When our Founding Fathers brought our democratic republic into existence, they built it on a straightforward, unambiguous foundation. Government, whether at the state level or federal level, has a simple yet elegant charter, according to the Declaration: to protect our inalienable rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” (By this last phrase, the […]
