Historical Figure

Joseph Gravelines

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Cross-Narrator Analyses

Analyses that cite or discuss Joseph Gravelines — showing 11 of the most recent matches.

December 2, 1804

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

The visit of four Cheyenne ("Shar-ha" / "Chien" / "Shian") emissaries to Fort Mandan, accompanying chiefs of the lower Mandan village, is…

March 14, 1805

Departures and Defections at Fort Mandan

By mid-March 1805, the Corps of Discovery was within weeks of abandoning Fort Mandan and pressing into country no member of the…

October 8, 1804

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

The eighth of October 1804 brought the Corps of Discovery to the lower Arikara villages near a long island in the Missouri,…

February 28, 1805

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

February 28, 1805 brought a consequential arrival at Fort Mandan: Joseph Gravelines, two Frenchmen, and two Arikara Indians came upriver with letters…

September 12, 1806

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

The meeting between the homeward-bound Corps of Discovery and Robert McClellan's trading expedition near St. Michael's Prairie produced three distinct accounts on…

March 5, 1805

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

The entries for March 5, 1805, from Fort Mandan offer a useful demonstration of how differently two members of the Corps of…

March 6, 1805

Smoke on the Plains: Two Views from Fort Mandan

The entries for March 6, 1805 from Fort Mandan offer a useful study in narrator divergence. William Clark and John Ordway both…

October 17, 1804

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

The October 17, 1804 entries from William Clark, John Ordway, and Patrick Gass align on the day's basic shape: a clear morning,…

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The Arikara Nation: Diplomatic Crossroads on the Upper Missouri

First Encounters and Abandoned VillagesThe Corps' first recorded brush with Arikara presence came not through people but through ruins. As they ascended…

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

IntroductionThe Yankton Sioux (Nakota), one of the seven council fires of the Sioux nation, occupy a distinctive place in the Lewis &…

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Thomas Jefferson: The Distant Architect of the Voyage of Discovery

An Absent PresenceThomas Jefferson never set foot on the expedition trail, yet his shadow falls across the journals from St. Louis to…

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