Journal entry · February 17, 1806
Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: February 17, 1806
John Ordway · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): Fort Clatsop, OR
hunters came in with the meat of an Elk which they took out
of a creek where some of the hunters had killed [it] in the after
part of the day Sg* Gass and 2 men returned to the Fort, they
had killed Eight Elk, and jurked 2 of them. Some of the men
killed a gray Eagle and a new kind of a Turkey buzzard one
man came from the Salt works for help to move in the Salt &
kittles Drewyer & Whitehouse came in had killed one Elk.
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The NPS atlas for this night
Fort Clatsop, OR
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of February 1 to February 28, 1806
NPS sites within 5 miles of this camp
- Lewis and Clark National Historical Park Visitor Center (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 0.1 mi
- Fort Clatsop (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · National Register · 0.1 mi
- Columbia River Maritime Museum (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 4.7 mi
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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