Journal entry · February 28, 1806
Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — Patrick Gass: February 28, 1806
Patrick Gass · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
cloudy. A serjeant and six men went out to bring in the
meat, and returned about noon. The greater part of this
day was fair and pleasant; and in the evening three hunters
came in, and had killed five elk.
200 GASS’S JOURNAL OF THE
CHAP. XVIII.
ATURDAY st March, 1806. We had a cloudy wet morn-
S ing. I set out with 8 men and 4 hunters to bring the
meat of the elk that had been killed, which was at a greater
distance from the fort than any we had yet brought in.
There is a large river that flows into the southeast part of
Hailey’s Bay ; upon which about 20 miles from its mouth, our
hunters discovered falls, which had about 60 feet of a perpen-
dicular pitch.
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Fort Clatsop, OR
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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
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