Charles Floyd
Not to be confused with Sergeant Charles Floyd. Multiple men surnamed Floyd served in various capacities connected to the expedition and the fur trade era on the Missouri River.
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Note: the longest gap between tagged appearances is about 22 months (Aug 26, 1804 → Jun 2, 1806). Charles Floyd may have been present in the corps during that span but is not named in the journals.
Art (1)
Journal Entries (103)
Cross-Narrator Analyses
Analyses that cite or discuss Charles Floyd — showing 24 of the most recent matches.
Charles Floyd: The Sergeant’s Plain Ledger
VoiceCharles Floyd writes like a man keeping a ship's log who has been told, almost as an afterthought, that he is also…
Sergeant Charles Floyd: The Only Casualty of the Corps of Discovery
IntroductionSergeant Charles Floyd holds a singular place in the history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: he was the only member of…
A Broken Mast and a Country Skipping with Deer
One River, Five MeasurementsThe day's central geographic event — passing the mouth of the Petite Platte (Little Shoal River) about ten miles…
A Bull Snake, a Lost Knife, and a River Eating Itself
One Day, Five Pens, Five PrioritiesAugust 5, 1804 produces an unusually clear demonstration of how differently the expedition's narrators allocated attention. The…
A Coal Bank, a Creek of Many Names, and a Missing Flanking Party
The journals for June 25, 1804 cover a short stretch of the Missouri above Arrow Rock, with the party detained by fog…
A Day to Fix the Longitude: Four Pens on the Bald Pated Prairie
The seventeenth of July 1804 found the Corps of Discovery encamped on what Clark and Ordway both call the “Bald Pated Prarie,”…
A Frenchman, a Hurricane’s Wreckage, and a Catfish Yielding a Quart of Oil
July 29, 1804 found the Corps moving slowly up the Missouri above the Platte, having dispatched a French-speaking emissary to summon the…
A Heavy Stern and a Rainy Morning: The Barge in Trouble Below St. Charles
May 15, 1804 was the expedition's first full day of upstream travel after the previous day's departure from Camp River Dubois. The…
A Kickapoo Promise Kept at the Mouth of a Small Creek
The 22 May 1804 entries cluster around three shared facts: a fifteen-mile day, a camp under cliffs on the north bank near…
A Mast of Cottonwood and a Vacant French Fort
July 2, 1804 finds the expedition pushing past the Isles des Parques and the ruins of an old French trading post opposite…
A Missing Hunter and the Echo of Guns: Four Voices from Deer Creek
This analysis was generated with AI assistance and reviewed by a human editor of the Lewis and Clark Research Database.The entries for…
A New Sergeant and a Hill of Little People: Four Voices on August 26, 1804
August 26, 1804 produced four overlapping accounts that, taken together, reveal how differently the expedition's narrators handled the same twenty-four hours. The…
A Phantom Fire on the Missouri: Rain, Wolf Creek, and a False Alarm
The Day's GeographyJuly 9, 1804 finds the Corps moving up the lower Missouri in steady rain, passing landmarks that all five narrators…
A Snag, a Swing, and the Measure of a Crew
Five members of the Corps left entries for June 9, 1804, and four of them describe the same incident: the keelboat's stern…
A Sore Throat, an Obscured Sun, and Signs of War Parties
June 3, 1804, on the Missouri near the Osage. Four published journals in this corpus record the day: Clark in two drafts,…
A Stopped Chronometer and a Walk Through Plum and Cherry Country
The July 15 record splits cleanly along a line of professional preoccupation. Lewis spends his entire entry inside the brass case of…
A Stray Horse and an Abandoned Trading House: Four Views of July 3, 1804
The entries for July 3, 1804 offer an unusually clean test case for comparing the expedition's four active journal-keepers. All four men…
A Stray Horse at the Nemaha: Four Voices on a Day of Rest
The expedition's halt opposite the mouth of the Nemaha River on July 11, 1804, produced four parallel accounts that, read together, illuminate…
A Trader’s Generosity and a Sergeant’s Disturbed Grave
The entries of September 4, 1806, find the Corps of Discovery descending the Missouri near the abandoned Omaha (Maha) village, soaked from…
A Violent Storm, a Missing Man, and the Mouth of the Soldier
The entries for August 6, 1804, offer an unusually clear window into how the expedition's record-keepers divided narrative labor. All four men…
A Wet Pirogue, a Measured River, and a Cave That Wasn’t There
The Shared Spine of the DayFive narrators left entries for May 28, 1804, and four of them agree on a remarkably compressed…
A Whippoorwill on the Boat: Sweat, Sand, and the Naming of a Creek
The entries for July 6, 1804 offer an unusually clear view of how information circulated among the expedition's journalists. The party ascended…
A White Flag at the Maha Village: Four Voices on an Empty Town
The expedition's arrival near the Omaha (Maha) village on 13 August 1804 produced four overlapping but unequal accounts. Captain William Clark, Sergeant…
A Wind-Bound Day and a Letter Burned on the Arkansas
Strong westerly winds pinned the expedition in camp through most of May 31, 1804, and every journalist on duty noted the delay.…
From the Heacock Memorial Archive
1 lewis-clark.org articles that mention Charles Floyd, preserved here for Robert Heacock’s photography. The articles were written by that site’s contributing authors.
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