The Human Element

Pelah Hoyt: How did you get interested in music and the Lewis and Clark expedition?

Joseph Mussulman: In the whole Lewis and Clark story, I am most of all interested in the human element. Not the facts, but the feelings behind the facts. And so, when Clark says they sang songs until eleven o'clock at night, in the greatest harmony, knowing that music meant a lot to men in those days, I want to know what they could have sung, and I like to guess.