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Leaving Home

Spring is here. It’s time to pack the bags, load the truck, and get on the trail of Lewis and Clark.
Protesters in Belle Fourche S.D., April 19, 2025.
This will sound like a parable, and it may be. But I’m going to describe it exactly as it happened.
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Oxford English Dictionary

A Word About Dictionaries

A short dissertation on my infatuation with dictionaries.
Clay and LTA Airstream
In a few weeks, Clay will embark on an 11,000-mile trek following the Lewis and Clark trail across the continent and back. As he loads his pickup and prepares to hit the road, Clay ponders what he has learned so far in his multi-year project to Listen to America.
Isaac, the day before his Naturalization ceremony in Fargo, North Dakota. (Photo Clay Jenkinson)
On a recent Uber drive to the Bismarck airport, Clay met Isaac, a North Dakota emigre from Ghana and a proud, brand-new U.S. citizen.
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Earlier this year, President Biden commuted the prison sentence of Leonard Peltier. This week, noted “wet plate” photographer Shane Balkowitsch visited Peltier at Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota, where he took a series of historical portraits of the 80-year-old Native American activist. Balkowitsch’s portraits of Peliter are published here for the first time.
Clay at Point Lobos Ca.
An exciting new addition to Clay’s slate of LTA Cultural Tours for 2025! We’re headed to Steinbeck Country — California's Central Coast. On this tour we’ll visit Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel, and just across the Santa Lucia mountains, the author’s hometown of Salinas. These California landscapes stayed close to Steinbeck’s heart throughout his life and shaped the Nobel Prize-winning author’s indelible literary legacy.
Best selling author Louis L'Amour and his son Beau L'Amour.
Louis L’Amour is widely considered the best-selling author of Western fiction of all time. Still highly popular with readers around the globe, L’Amour has sold over 320 million books, with numerous film and TV adaptations of his work.
Statue at the John Wesley Powell River History Museum in Green River Utah
John Wesley Powell, the extraordinary one-armed Civil War veteran, was the first to explore the canyons of the Colorado Plateau by river. His remarkable story still fascinates and inspires me.
Clay Jenkinson, doing a historical presentation as Theodore Roosevelt in Santiago, Cuba. 2024
A not-so-rough rider, Clay gave a historical presentation as Teddy Roosevelt during a recent visit to Santiago, Cuba.
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