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Impersonator makes Lewis and Clark experience real

Silas Goodrich was not having a good day.
A catfish bit his hand and sweat from the 100-degree heat was dripping under his Army uniform.

Famed explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark waited anxiously nearby at the fork of the Kansas and Missouri rivers for him to catch a meal for their hungry crew.

He dunked his arms into the muddy water.

A semi truck whizzed past.

The 19th century fisherman disappeared.

Rolland Love was back.

The Overland Park resident spends many of his days transitioning into Goodrich, the expert fisherman who followed along on Lewis and Clark’s journey through the American West.
Read entire article at KansasCity.com