Journal entry · January 11, 1806
Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: January 11, 1806
John Ordway · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
landing last night, & went away. Some time last night 7 men
went with a canoe after the Elk meat several more went to
look for the Small canoe, towards evening we returned with
the meat &C.
it very hard she could not be permitted to see either (she had never yet been to
the Ocean).”
1 The party had traveled along the coast to a point in the vicinity of Nehalem
Bay, in Tillamook County.
2 Modern Nehalem River.
3 Tillamook Head. It had been first seen by Clark from Cape Disappoint-
ment on Nov. 18, 1805, on his first excursion to the shore of the Pacific.
322 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Jan. 12
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Fort Clatsop, OR
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- 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
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