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September 25, 1804 - Clark, William
  • [interpreters] to the boat, the perogu Soon returned with about 12 of our detumind men ready for any event    this movement 〈in the Is instance after Landing Pointed their arrows blank &c which〉 caused a no: of the Indians to withdraw at a distance,—    [NB: leaving their chiefs soldiers alone with me]    Their treatment to me was verry rough & I think justified roughness on my part, they all left my Perogue and Councild. with themselves the result I could not lern and nearly all went off    after remaining in this Situation Some time I offered my hand to the 1 & 2 Chief who refusd to recve it.
  • September 25, 1804
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  • Clark, William
September 2, 1804 - Clark, William
  • at this angle a kind of ravilene [ravelin] covering a Sale-port [sallyport], bearing East widing N 69 W 300 yds.    passed a gate way at 280 yds.   
  • September 2, 1804
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  • Clark, William
March 12, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the whale bone they also carefully preserve for sale.— Our party are now furnished with 358 pair of Mockersons exclusive of a good portion of dressed leather.— Under Sergeant Ordway (Ordway, John) , according to himself.
  • March 12, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
March 5, 1806 - Clark, William
  • This morning we were visited by two parties of Clatsops (Clatsop Indians)    they brought Some fish, a hat and Some Skins for Sale most of which we purchased, they returned to their Village in the evening with the returning tide. late in the evening the Hunters returned from the Kil-haw-â nack-kle River (Youngs (Kilhow-a-nah-kle) River) which discharges itself into the head of the Bay.
  • March 5, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
April 10, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • in expectation of finding some others of a similar kind for sale among the natives of this neighbourhood I would not offer him a greater price than had been given for the other which he refused.   
  • April 10, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 16, 1806 - Clark, William
  • after his arival Some horses were offered for Sale, but they asked nearly half the merchindize I had with me for one horse.   
  • April 16, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • His orders were to join Truteau at the Mandan villages and then continue to the Pacific. In the event, he bogged down among the Poncas in northeastern Nebraska—a total fiasco.
  • They had to live off the country as they went, and undoubtedly they stopped to give a sales talk to every Indian band that showed the least signs of friendliness.
  • Allowing a safe margin of time for further improvement, the men in charge of the two-day ceremony scheduled the first event, the transfer of the territory from Spain to France, for noon, March 9, 1804.
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  • David Lavender
November 3, 1804 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • .— Here the writer summarizes the events for the remainder of the month as it is also given in the fair copy.
  • November 3, 1804
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
April 13, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we found the additional laiding which we had been compelled to put on board rendered our vessels extreemly inconvenient to mannage and in short reather unsafe in the event of high winds; I therefore left Capt. C. (Clark, William) with the two Perogues to proceede up the river on the N. side, and with the two canoes and some additional hands passed over the river above the rapids of the Y-eh-huh village (Y-eh-huh village) in order to purchase one or more canoes.
  • April 13, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
March 26, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • soon after we halted for dinner the two Wackiacums (Wahkiakum Indians) who have been pursuing us since yesterday morning with two dogs for sale, arrived.    they wish tobacco in exchange for their dogs which we are not disposed to give as our stock is now reduced to a very few carrots.   
  • March 26, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
June 30, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • We had a heavy dew this morning which is a remarkable event. Fraizer (Frazer, Robert) and Whitehouse (Whitehouse, Joseph) still continue their opperation of sewing the skins together.
  • June 30, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
March 18, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • our party are also too small to think of leaving any of them to return to the U' States by sea, particularly as we shall be necessarily divided into three or four parties on our return in order to accomplish the objects we have in view; and at any rate we shall reach the United States in all human probability much earlier than a man could who must in the event of his being left here depend for his passage to the United States on the traders of the coast who may not return immediately to the U' States or if they should, might probably spend the next summer in trading with the natives before they would set out on their return.   
  • March 18, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 1, 1806 - Clark, William
  • under these circumstances there Seams to be a gloomey prospect for Subsistence on any terms; we therefore took it into Serious Consideration what measure we were to pursue on this Occasion; it was at once deemed inexpedient to waite the arival of the Salmon as that would detain us So long a portion of the Season that it is probable we Should not reach the U States before the ice would close the Missouri (Missouri River) ; or at all events would hazard our horses which we left in charge of the Chopunnish (Nez Perce Indians) who informed us that they intended passing the Rocky Mountains (Rocky Mountains) to the Missouri (Missouri River) as early as the Season would permit them which is about the first of May.
  • April 1, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 11, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Most of those have a division in the houses near the enterance which is at the end, or in the event of it's being a double house is from the center of a narrow passage.
  • April 11, 1806
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  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • As word of the whites' needs spread, they began bringing in, for sale, furs for clothing and occasional edible dogs, sturgeon, and, more frequently, wapatoo roots.
  • What he did do was jot down a brief summary of each day's events, including in it, repetitively, such lugubrious phrases as "rained last night as usial," "not any occurences today worthy of note," and "everything moves on in the old way."
  • First they wanted to store up a supply of meat. As events turned out, the hunters—even Drouillard—were not able to get ahead of daily needs.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
July 4, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Following are several blank pages (82–98, with two pages unnumbered), into which Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) apparently intended to fill the events of July 5–14, 1806, perhaps from the notes in Codex La.
  • July 4, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 6, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • The morning being fair and pleasant and wind favourable we set sale at an early hour, and proceeded on very well the great part of the day; the country still continues level fertile and beautifull, the bottoms wide and well timbered comparitively speaking with other parts of the river; no appearance of birnt hills pumice stone or coal, the salts of tartar or vegitable salts continues to appear on the river banks, sand bars and in many parts of the plains most generally in the little revines at the base of the low hills.   
  • May 6, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
Great Plains Quarterly 13.2 (1993): 69–80
  • Wright argued, along with the Mexican historian Edmundo O'Gorman, that America was not so much discovered or explored as it was "invented," with the "invention" coming about as the result of the attempt to reconcile the world view that preceded the events of 1492 with the expansion and change in geographical knowledge that followed the first landing of Columbus.
  • Finally, Coronado's exploration illustrates well the relationship between exploration and subsequent events, including the invention of tradition. For Castañeda's favorable assessment of the Plains as farmland notwithstanding, the Spanish over the course of the next two and a half centuries transformed that solid and accurate geographical assessment into the invented tradition of the Barrier.
  • When Thomas Jefferson began to set in motion the events that culminated in the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Garden and the Passage were already invented American traditions, certainly not shared by all but shared by a majority of Americans of the time.
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  • John L. Allen
J & MC Quarterly 80.4 (2003): 866–883
  • The National Intelligence, so closely aligned with the Jefferson administration as an anti–Federalist, Democrat–Republican newspaper, described the return as a "desirable and unexpected event." No matter how partisan, the Federalist newspapers could not ignore this news event.
  • Eastern newspapers published personal letters sent to family and friends to describe events. With this correspondence, the newspapers told of a festive St.
  • Boorstin, The Image, A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (New York: Antheneum, 1972), 61, plus chapter 2, "From Hero to Celebrity, the Human Pseudo Event."
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  • Betty Houchin Winfield
July 27, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • beleiving this to be an essential point in the geography of this western part of the Continent I determined to remain at all events untill I obtained the necessary data for fixing it's latitude Longitude &c.   
  • if we do not find them or some other nation who have horses I fear the successfull issue of our voyage will be very doubtfull or at all events much more difficult in it's accomplishment.    we are now several hundred miles within the bosom of this wild and mountanous country, where game may rationally be expected shortly to become scarce and subsistence precarious without any information with rispect to the country not knowing how far these mountains continue, or wher to direct our course to pass them to advantage or intersept a navigable branch of the Columbia (Columbia River) , or even were we on such an one the probability is that we should not find any timber within these mountains large enough for canoes if we judge from the portion of them through which we have passed.   
  • July 27, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
Weather, January 1805 - Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
  • The captains are actually seeing an atmospheric event caused by the refraction of light by ice crystals. Neiburger, Edinger, & Bonner, 426.
  • Weather, January 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
February 15, 1806 - Clark, William
  • whether the horses was originally a native of this Country or not, it is out of my power to determine as we cannot understand the language of the nativs Sufficiently to ask the question.    at all events the Country and Climate appears well adapted to this Animal. Horses are Said to be found wild in maney parts of this extensive plain Country—.
  • February 15, 1806
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  • Clark, William
Exploring the Explorers: Great Plains Peoples and the the Lewis and Clark Expedition Great Plains Quarterly 13.2 (1993): 81–90
  • First, we still see exploration events through the eyes of the European explorers themselves. Their stories become the only stories, their visions the only vision.
  • The Lewis and Clark story is an emblematic tale, one that transcends the particular events to represent larger cultural truths. Lewis and Clark's odyssey has become a touchstone event in the history of the American West, a part of something that might be called the tale of the tribe.
  • What survives are evocative fragments hinting at a major effort of mind and spirit, the struggle to know the other. Two unrelated events at the end of the winter of 1804–05 can tell us something about the Indian enterprise to understand what had quite suddenly become a new world.
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  • JAMES P. RONDA
July 17, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I have no doubt but they would steel our horses if they have it in their power and finding us weak should they happen to be numerous wil most probably attempt to rob us of our arms and baggage; at all events I am determined to take every posible precaution to avoid them if possible.
  • July 17, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Wash your feet every morning with cold water. Beware of constipation. In the event, the last admonition was the only one followed. Rush also suggested, at Jefferson's request, some of the things Lewis should concentrate on while studying Indians.
  • He should take with him "kine pox," a vaccine for smallpox, a disease to which Native Americans were particularly susceptible, and explain its use. In event of opposition by any "nation" (did Jefferson mean Spain or England as well as Indian tribes?)
  • Lastly, after becoming acquainted with his group, he should name the most dependable among them to be his successor in the event of his being incapacitated or dying along the way. With those awesome charges in mind—the final draft would be drawn up after the last suggestions had been received—Lewis returned to Washington, arriving sometime in early June.
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
May 20, 1804 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • a small garden of vegetables is the usual extent of their cultivation, and this is commonly imposed on the old men and boys; the men in the vigor of life consider the cultivation of the earth a degrading occupation, and in order to gain the necessary subsistence for themselves and families, either undertake hunting voyages on their own account, or engaged themselves as hirelings to such persons as possess sufficient capital to extend their traffic to the natives of the interior parts of the country; on those voyages in either case, they are frequently absent from their families or homes the term of six twelve or eighteen months and alwas subjected to severe and incessant labour, exposed to the ferosity of the lawless savages, the vicissitudes of weather and climate, and dependant on chance or accident alone for food, raiment or relief in the event of malady. These people are principally the decendants of the Canadian French, and it is not an inconsiderable proportian of them that can boast a small dash of the pure blood of the aboriginees of America.
  • May 20, 1804
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 8, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I preserved some of it's seeds which are now ripe, thinking perhaps it might answer better if cultivated, at all events is at least worth the experiment.    it rises about 3 feet high.   
  • August 8, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 1, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • under these circumstances there seems to be but a gloomy prospect for subsistence on any terms; we therefore took it into serious consideration what measures we were to pursue on this occasion; it was at once deemed inexpedient to wait the arrival of the salmon as that would detain us so large a portion of the season that it is probable we should not reach the United States before the ice would close the Missouri (Missouri River) ; or at all events would hazard our horses which we lelft in charge of the Chopunnish (Nez Perce Indians) who informed us that they intended passing the rocky mountains (Rocky Mountains) to the Missouri (Missouri River) as early as the season would permit them wich is as we believe about the begining of May.   
  • April 1, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 5, 1806 - Clark, William
  • as this rout of the Oat lash shoots (Flathead Indians) can be followed it will evidently Shorten our rout at least 2 days and as the indians informed me last fall a much better rout than the one we came out.    at all events I am deturmined to make the attempt and follow their trail if possible    if I can prosue [EC: prosue = pursue] it my rout will be nearer and much better than the one we Came from the Shoshones (Shoshone Indians) , & if I should not be able to follow their road; our rout can't possibly be much wors.
  • July 5, 1806
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  • Clark, William
July 28, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • from hence they retreated about three miles up Jeffersons river (Jefferson River (North, Southwest Fork)) and concealed themselves in the woods, the Minnetares (Hidatsa Indians) pursued, attacked them, killed 4 men 4 women a number of boys, and mad prisoners of all the females and four boys, Sah-cah-gar-we-ah (Sacagawea) or Indian woman was one of the female prisoners taken at that time; tho' I cannot discover that she shews any immotion of sorrow in recollecting this events, or of joy in being again restored to her native country; if she has enough to eat and a few trinkets to wear I believe she would be perfectly content anywhere.— Point of observation No. 39.
  • July 28, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 9, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • most of them have a devision in their houses near the entrance wich is at the end or in the event of it's bing a double house is from the center of a narrow passage.   
  • April 9, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 15, 1806 - Clark, William
  • The first dated entry is for August 15, 1806, but as noted for August 14, there is in fact considerable doubt where the events of August 14 leave off and those of August 15 begin. This confusion is most unusual in the journals.
  • August 15, 1806
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  • Clark, William
Western Historical Quarterly 33.1 (2002): 5–18
  • Once I got to graduate school, it was the events and peoples east of the Mississippi that captured my attention.
  • No lines from that book are more memorable and influential than these: "The exploration of the American West was never an isolated event. It belongs to world rather than national history, and never more so than in the opening decades of the nineteenth century."
  • Sandweiss, Andrew Burstein, Christine Ruane, and Jeanne Ronda for thoughtful readings of this essay. * Editor's note: The National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial is coordinating events nationally from 2003–2006 to commemorate the explorers' journey of 1803–1806.
  • N.D.
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  • James P. Ronda
October 8, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Eventually declining numbers, caused by disease and war with the Sioux (Sioux Indians) , forced them to move to Like-a-Fishhook (Like-a-Fishhook village) village in North Dakota (North Dakota) with the Hidatsas (Hidatsa Indians) and Mandans (Mandan Indians) . This event, about 1845, finally brought about an alliance suggested by Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) and Clark (Clark, William) .
  • October 8, 1804
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  • Clark, William
J & MC Quarterly 80.4 (2003): 866–883
  • I am grateful to the American Philosophical Society for the privilege of appearing here tonight, and of discussing an event with which the Society was so closely concerned, important memorials of which are in its possession.
  • By the time Jefferson began to prepare it, events had occurred of decisive importance to the American-British contention for the West.
  • We must now bring to bear on our problem the decisive events I have alluded to. All but one of them had occurred since the collapse of the Michaux expedition, and that that one had occurred was not known until after the Michaux expedition collapsed.
  • N.D.
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  • Bernard DeVoto
Heritage of the Great Plains 37: no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2004)
  • Using dendrochronology, Lawson believed that this region was generally moist in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Rain was a common event the first summer of the expedition. Between June 26 and September 14, 1804 Clark mentions rainy days seventeen times in the Central Plains.
  • However, the contemporary reader must be careful not to contrast the experiences of one summer on Central Plains rivers with the large amount of data collected in the past century. What were the major weather events encountered by the Lewis and Clark expedition in the summers of 1804 and 1806?
  • N.D.
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  • Karen Jean De Bres
October 29, 1804 - Clark, William
  • a fair fine morning    after Brackfast we were visited by the old Cheaf of the Big bellies (Cherry Grows on a Bush (Caltarcota)) or [blank]    this man was old and had transfered his power to his Sun, who was then out at war against the Snake (Paiute Indians) Indians who inhabit the rockey mountains (Rocky Mountains) —    at 10 oClock the S W. wind rose verry high, we Collected the Chiefs and Commened a Council ounder a Orning and our Sales Stretched around to Keep out as much wind as possible, we delivered a long Speech the Substance of which Similer to what we had Delivered to the nations below.   
  • October 29, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
September 23, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • Mountains (Rocky Mountains) have horses with [illegible] for Sale    the goods [which?] they want for them is follows. Small light [illegible] mounted guns powder & balls, brass or copper kittles Small or middling Size knives Beeds blue & white    blue is Set the [first?]
  • September 23, 1806
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  • Ordway, John
Lewis & Clark among the Indians 3. The Arikara Interlude
  • As late as 1853, Arikara farmers grew five thousand bushels of corn for sale outside the villages. Agriculture was the foundation of the Arikara economy, but hunting buffalo and other game animals was also important.
  • Sovereignty, client chiefs, and trade were all important subjects for discussion with the Arikara chiefs. But if the events of the interlude with the Arikaras proved any test, Lewis and Clark had other things on their minds as well.
  • The Laocata action was a reminder that the violent events of the 1790s were not forgotten. Weakening the Arikara- Sioux connection and promoting peace among all the Upper Missouri villagers seemed a rational and beneficial policy to both the captains and their trader allies.
  • N.D.
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  • James P. Ronda
April 7, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width, on which the foot of civillized man had never trodden; the good or evil it had in store for us was for experiment yet to determine, and these little vessells contained every article by which we were to expect to subsist or defend ourselves. however as this the state of mind in which we are, generally gives the colouring to events, when the immagination is suffered to wander into futurity, the picture which now presented itself to me was a most pleasing one.   
  • April 7, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
February 15, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • whether the horse was orrigeonally a native of this country or not it is out of my power to determine as we can not understand the language of the natives sufficiently to ask the question.    at all events the country and climate appears well adapted to this anamal.   
  • February 15, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
Lewis & Clark among the Indians 8. The Clatsop Winter
  • By 1805 the annual spring visits of British and American ships to a rendezvous on the waters of Bakers Bay had become an eagerly anticipated event in the lower Chinookans' year. European-manufactured objects quickly pervaded native life.
  • Sea otter and elk skins were usually offered for sale by traders not familiar with the market conditions. Shrewd dealers as they were, the Clatsops quickly grasped the expedition's needs and increasingly offered what would sell.
  • Prices too high or quality too low were sure grounds for no sale. On well over half of the trading days, goods offered by Indians were rejected or a partial purchase was made.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • James P. Ronda
October 29, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Clark 29th of October 1804    a fine morning    after Brackfast we were Visited by the Old Chief of the Big Bellies (Cherry Grows on a Bush (Caltarcota)) or me ne tar res (Hidatsa Indians) ,    this Man has Given his power to his Son who is now on a war party against the Snake (Paiute Indians) Indians who inhabit the Rockey Mountains (Rocky Mountains) , the S W wind verry high—    we met in Council under an orning and our Sales Stretched round to keep out as much wind as possible & Delivered a long Speach Similar to what had been Said to the nations below, the old Chief was restless before the Speech was half ended, observed his Camp was exposed & could wait no longer &c.   
  • October 29, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • To provide, on the accident of your death, against anarchy, dispersion & the consequent danger to your party, and total failure of the enterprise, you are hereby authorised, by any instrument signed & written in your hand, to name the person among them who shall succeed to the command on your decease, & by like instruments to change the nomination from time to time, as further experience of the characters accompanying you shall point out superior fitness; and all the powers & authorities given to yourself are, in the event of your death, transferred to & vested in the successor so named, with further power to him, & his successors in like manner to name each his successor, who, on the death of his predecessor, shall be invested with all the powers & authorities given to yourself.
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  • David Lavender
Oregon Historical Quarterly 105:3 (2004): 390–421.
  • Although the first geologists in the region, Dana and Newberry, had recognized that extraordinary events had helped shape the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, some key figures in U.S. geology entered the fray, eager to show that the Channeled Scabland could be explained by "leisurely streams with normal discharge."
  • Unlike The Dalles of the Columbia, the formation of Cascade Rapids and the submerged forest involved cataclysms of only a few hundred years ago, not several thousand. Also, the events at Cascade Rapids had direct and substantial effects on the ecology and human use of the lower Columbia.
  • Lawrence later searched the landslide debris itself and found from ring counts that the oldest growing tree germinated in 1562, presumably some time after the tumultuous event. In 1958, two decades after the closure of Bonneville Dam, Lawrence submitted two retained samples of the submerged forest to the then-new technique of radiocarbon dating.
  • N.D.
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  • Jim E. O'Connor
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • By midmorning, however, thirst engendered by the day's suffocating heat drove them back to the water and, as events turned out, to a sportsman's breakfast. In a grove of cottonwood trees they killed two grizzly bears with their first fire, "a circumstance which I believe has never happened [before]."
  • Would his dog Seaman have distracted the beast long enough for Lewis to have reloaded? Who knows? In any event, Lewis started briskly, with his empty gun, toward the tree under which he had planned to camp.
  • (These pages also include Lewis's record of events at the camp below Portage Creek.) Clark's survey figures: VI, 5–8; Biddle, 240–42.
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • (His birth year is given variously as 1785 and 1787; in either event, he turned out to be the youngest member of the expedition.) His father, an Ohioan, had recently died and George seems to have been on his reluctant way to Pennsylvania to join his mother's family when the prospect of adventure in the West diverted him.
  • As far as Lewis knew, no copies of the treaties had reached Missouri, and anyway the Spanish were vociferously insisting the sale of Louisiana to the United States had no legal standing. Lewis did not even have a Spanish passport to use for gaining entrance to St. Louis in the event Delassus chose to keep him out. It could be a serious block. None of the maps he had studied in Washington had been based on the knowledge of people who had actually been in most of the country he and Clark proposed to enter.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
August 16, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • after reading the notes which were the same I had left I told the Chief that when I had left my brother Chief with the party below where the river entered the mountain that we both agreed not to bring the canoes higher up than the next forks of the river above us wherever this might happen, that there he was to wait my return, should he arrive first, and that in the event of his not being able to travel as fast as usual from the difficulty of the water, that he was to send up to the first forks above him and leave a note informing me where he was, that this note was left here today and that he informed me where he was, that this note was left here today and that he informed me that he was just below the mountains and was coming on slowly up, and added that I should wait here for him, but if they did not beleive me that I should send a man at any rate to the Chief and they might also send one of their young men with him, that myself and two others would remain with them at this place.   
  • August 16, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 85:2 (1961): 163–77.
  • It is a work that seems to excite much attention, & will I hope have a great sale & give considerable profit to this bold adventurer." The publishing house operated by John Conrad had contracted to produce the work, but, of course, they needed a manuscript.
  • Jefferson later declared that the journals were produced in the field, and indirectly attributed their fine state of preservation to the fact that they were sealed in metal containers. In any event, we have John Conrad's testimony that at the time of Lewis' death in 1809, not a line of manuscript had been received from St.
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • It was an instinctive, bloodthirsty reaction born in his own dark, unexplored interior, and psychologists might like to play with it. In the event, however, Clark simply took each person by the hand and offered trinkets and bits of ribbon.
  • And so there was joy in camp. Premature joy, as events developed. Because of frenzied weather and booming tides, they never did get their canoes to the river's mouth.
  • Undisturbed by the whites' refusal to buy the furs they offered for sale, the Indians cheerfully suggested their own territory as winter quarters.
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