The calm Missouri River beside a wooded bank under a soft grey sky, 2025

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Journal Entries

Original journal entries from all six expedition journalists: Lewis, Clark, Floyd, Ordway, Gass, and Whitehouse. Sourced from the Thwaites Edition (1904-1905).

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919 cross-narrator analyses compare journalists on the same date (857 days). Entries with an analysis are marked below. All analyses
Dec 1 1805
Clark: December 1, 1805 Analysis
December 1st Sunday 1805 Cloudy windey morning wind from the East, Sent out 2 hunters in the woods, I intended to take…
William Clark · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop
The wide Columbia River glinting under a cloudy sky, with a forested hill on the right, 2025
Dec 1 1805
Lewis: December 1, 1805 Analysis
December 1st 1805 Cloudy morning wind from the S. E. sent out the men to hunt and examin the country, they soon…
Meriwether Lewis · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop
A shaded gravel path through dense green woods, with a wooden bench beside it, 2025
Dec 1 1805
Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — Patrick Gass: December 1, 1805 Analysis
cloudy. Some of the hunters went out but had not the fortune to kill any thing, not even a duck.
Patrick Gass · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop
The wide Columbia River glinting under a cloudy sky, with a forested hill on the right, 2025
Dec 1 1805
Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — John Ordway: December 1, 1805 Analysis
our men are unwell living on pounded sammon only.1
John Ordway · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop
The wide Columbia River glinting under a cloudy sky, with a forested hill on the right, 2025
Dec 2 1805
Clark: December 2, 1805 Analysis
December 2nd Monday 1805 Cloudy and Some little rain this morning I despatched 3 men to hunt and 2 and my Servent…
William Clark · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop
The wide Columbia River glinting under a cloudy sky, with a forested hill on the right, 2025
Dec 2 1805
Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — Patrick Gass: December 2, 1805 Analysis
of the hunters went out in the morning; and in the afternoon one of them came in, after killing a fine elk.…
Patrick Gass · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop
The wide Columbia River glinting under a cloudy sky, with a forested hill on the right, 2025
Dec 2 1805
Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — John Ordway: December 2, 1805 Analysis
went out a hunting, one of them returned towards evening, had killed an Elk Six men went with a canoe after the…
John Ordway · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop
The wide Columbia River glinting under a cloudy sky, with a forested hill on the right, 2025
Dec 3 1805
Clark: December 3, 1805 Analysis
December 3rd Tuesday 1805 a fair windey morning wind from the East, the men Sent after an Elk yesterday returnd. with an…
William Clark · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop
The wide Columbia River glinting under a cloudy sky, with a forested hill on the right, 2025
Dec 3 1805
Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — Patrick Gass: December 3, 1805 Analysis
the men came in with the meat of the elk. They had a disa- greeable trip, it being dark before they arrived…
Patrick Gass · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop
The wide Columbia River glinting under a cloudy sky, with a forested hill on the right, 2025

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