Historical Figure

Joseph Gravelines

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Cross-Narrator Analyses

AI-assisted scholarly analyses that cite or discuss Joseph Gravelines — showing 11 of the most recent matches.

September 12, 1806

News from the States: The Encounter with McClellan’s Keel Boat

On the lower Missouri, the returning Corps meets Robert McClellan's trading party and receives the first substantial news from home in over…

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The Yankton Sioux: Calumet Bluff and the Long Shadow of Diplomacy

From the ceremonial council at Calumet Bluff in August 1804 to chance encounters with traders bound for their villages two years later,…

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Thomas Jefferson: The Distant Architect of the Voyage of Discovery

Though never present on the trail, President Thomas Jefferson shaped every mile of the Corps of Discovery's journey. He appears in the…

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The Arikara Nation: Diplomatic Crossroads on the Upper Missouri

Across forty-two journal entries, the Arikara emerge as central players in the expedition's diplomatic strategy — corn-growing villagers caught between Sioux pressure…

March 14, 1805

Departures and Defections at Fort Mandan

On the eve of the expedition's spring push upriver, Ordway and Clark record a single day at Fort Mandan from sharply different…

March 6, 1805

Smoke on the Plains: Two Views from Fort Mandan

On a smoky March day at Fort Mandan, Clark and Ordway record overlapping but distinct scenes — burning prairies, returning horses, visiting…

March 5, 1805

Routine and Diplomacy at Fort Mandan: Two Registers of a Quiet March Day

On a mild March day at Fort Mandan, Ordway logs charcoal-making and a passing snow squall while Clark records temperature, visitors, and…

February 28, 1805

News from the Arikara: Three Accounts of a Sioux War Warning

On February 28, 1805, a delegation arrives at Fort Mandan bearing word of Sioux hostility. Ordway, Gass, and Clark each register the…

December 2, 1804

A Cheyenne Pipe at Fort Mandan: Three Registers of a Diplomatic Visit

On a thawing December day at Fort Mandan, four Cheyenne emissaries arrived with the Mandans bearing a pipe of peace. Clark, Ordway,…

October 17, 1804

Wind, Antelope, and a Whippoorwill: Three Voices on the Missouri

On a wind-bound day above the Cannonball, Clark walks ashore with an Arikara chief while Ordway and Gass tally deer. Three narrators…

October 8, 1804

Four Pens at the Arikara Threshold: Naming Rivers and Counting Villages

On the approach to the Arikara villages, four expedition journalists record the same stretch of the Missouri with strikingly different precision. Their…

From Heacock's Writings

1 mirrored articles by Robert Heacock that mention Joseph Gravelines.

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