A matter of melanins?
by David J. Peck, Joseph A. Mussulman
There may have been one good personal reason why Clark carried an umbrella. Beneath our skins we’re all supposed to be pretty much alike, but at the epidermal level there are some conspicuous differences that we owe to melanin.
A cure for Sacagawea?
by David J. Peck, Joseph A. Mussulman
On his return to the mouth of the Marias, Lewis found Sacagawea gravely ill. He had his men cross the river “to procure the water of the Sulpher spring,” “the virtues of which,” Lewis asserted, “I now resolved to try on the Indian woman.”
An interview with Dr. Peck
by David J. Peck
An interview with David Peck, practicing physician and the author of Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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