“At any rate, Clark was not given to notoriety, public acclaim and applause for the event, nor for any other – though he and his family figured large in central Oregon’s history – as was Howard Maupin, who never tired of receiving credit that was nor was not his, commencing with his distinguished career in the Army. Who but he would have claimed he stormed Monterey and was awarded a Henry rifle by General George Crook for his service in the Mexican War when he had never left Missouri?”
