Joseph James Clark was born on November 12, 1893 in a log cabin on a creek in Pryor Indian Territory in the northeast corner of Oklahoma. His father was William A. Clark, a Native American Cherokee, who was one of the first of fifty-four students in 1875 to live and be educated in ...
TheBountyvoyage was undertaken at the request of Caribbean plantation owners, who were seeking a subsistence food for their slaves. English botanistSir Joseph Banks(a veteran of Cook’s first Pacific voyage) recommended feeding them Tahitianbreadfruit. An unenthusiastic Admiralty agreed to refit the ...