Claims extracted
31
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
10%
3 of 31 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Entertainment
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Still seeking Western adventures
TV hasn’t lurched forward since pros like Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball and Milton Berle began the thing in the ’50s, so it’s now doing what movies are doing — going backward.
asserted
movies → seek → doing
You know who is Sacagawea?
asserted
Sacagawea → know → ?
The name probably hasn’t come with your cornflakes in at least two weeks.
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name → come → weeks
She spoke Shoshone.
asserted
She → speak → Shoshone
I mean, don’t we all?
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we → mean → ?
The name means “Bird Woman.”
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name → mean → Woman
Carrying her infant on her back she was the guide on Lewis and Clark’s schlep from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
asserted
she → carry → Pacific
Born 1788 in Lemhi County, Idaho, which even out-of-towners know is a big shlep from Coney Island, she was their guide.
asserted
she → bear → Island
She calmed intervening tribes because she was the nonthreatening only woman among 31 older men.
asserted
she → calm → men
Nobody could do that now.
uncertain
Nobody → do → that
Skilled at locating edible plants, she was also never paid for that.
asserted
she → locate → that
Understand that President Thomas Jefferson’s 1803 Louisiana Purchase had just nearly doubled the size of this country.
asserted
Purchase → understand → country
Because of Sacagawea this territory became part of the United States of America.
asserted
territory → become → America
(Even the part that’s unfortunately hardcore Democrat.)
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that → ’ → ?
She — absolutely a toughie and no wallflower — later lived in some outpost called Wyoming — and passed on in 1812.
The territory is still with us — but so is the adventure story now again being reprised on PBS and C-SPAN and even some thing called YouTube.
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story → live → PBS
If you figure it out, recording the saga anew at the Library of Congress were authors Craig Fehrman and Elizabeth Adelman who have spent five years researching and retelling the expedition.
asserted
who → figure → expedition
These experts say the original trip cost as much as our schlep to the moon.
asserted
trip → say → moon
They equate it to what is now being spent on NASA.
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what → equate → NASA
Fehrman, journalist and historian, spent five years in the library’s archives and came up with “The Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark,” told from the points of view of people on the expedition.
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Fehrman → spend → expedition
He says: “Americans have shaped Native nations, but Native nations have shaped America, too.”
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nations → say → America
Adelman, an attorney who gardened on weekends until she got digging into the plants found and eaten on that westward schlep.
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she → garden → schlep
That research became “Chasing Lewis’s Monkeyflower: The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s Wild Plants.”
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research → become → Plants
She says, on why some plants disappeared between then and now:
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plants → say → ?
“It’s one ghostwriter writing for another ghostwriter.
asserted
It → ’ → ghostwriter
What could possibly go wrong?”
uncertain
What → go → ?
The experts explain why the expedition had to survive Washington before it could survive the Missouri River and two years in the wilderness.
uncertain
it → explain → wilderness
These smarties say that if you see the name Pursh after a plant’s scientific name, it was almost certainly collected by Lewis.
asserted
it → say → Lewis
They also say — pay attention — that the whole thing almost got sidelined because “politics nearly sank the expedition.”
asserted
politics → say → expedition
Hell hath no fury like an elected pol.
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Hell → hath → pol
ABOUT one of TV’s news ladies: “Who cares how old she is.
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she → care → ladies
She looks like a million dollars — after taxes, of course.”
asserted
She → look → course
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