It took place two months after I'd left Montana when, visiting the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, I was invited into the society's library vault. The curator opened two volumes, one by Clark and one by Lewis. The two men's script was tiny and meticulous. Their words, their ink, their drawings and doodles. Those words are not the end of the trail, but its only true beginning.
Interpretation can wait.
Pierre Tristam was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1964. After spending a year in England, he emigrated to the United States in 1979 as a result of the Lebanese civil war and became an American citizen in 1986. He joined The Ledger in 1995.