Journal entry · April 1, 1806
Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River — Patrick Gass: April 1, 1806
Patrick Gass · Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River
we agreed to stay here all day, for the purpose of hunting.
So 9 hunters set out early; 3 of whom went up Quicksand
*«T had imagined that the Canadians, who accompanied me were the most
expert canoe-men in the world, but they are very inferior to these people [the natives
near the coast] as they themselves acknowledged, in conducting those vessels.’’
MP Kenzie.
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION — 209
river, and killed a deer; the other stx killed 4 elk and a deer.
In the evening nine of us went to bring in the meat of the elk;
but it being late we were obliged to encamp out all night.
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right shore Washougal, WA
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino)
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- Two River Heritage Museum (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 0.2 mi
- Sandy River Delta (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 1.3 mi
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