Fort Clatsop, winter quarters

December 1, 1805 Four Voices on a Roaring Coast: Hunger, Botany, and a Sea That Will Not Be Pacific December 2, 1805 The First Elk West of the Rockies: Three Versions of a Welcome Kill December 3, 1805 Elk Meat, Wapato Roots, and a Name Carved in Pine December 4, 1805 Six Men to the Elk: A Storm-Bound Day at the Future Fort Clatsop December 5, 1805 Lewis Returns: Three Voices on a Site Selected for Winter December 6, 1805 Driven to Higher Ground: Three Accounts of a Flooded Camp on the Pacific December 7, 1805 Arrival at Meriwether’s Bay: Three Voices Approach Winter Quarters December 8, 1805 Three Routes to the Ocean: Diverging Accounts of the Salt-Camp Reconnaissance December 9, 1805 Two Pens, One Storm: Clark’s Coastal Hospitality and Gass’s Camp Discipline December 10, 1805 Foundations in the Rain: Three Views from a Single Day at Fort Clatsop December 11, 1805 Five Words and a Sick List: Two Registers of Construction at Fort Clatsop December 12, 1805 Cabins, Fleas, and Clatsop Traders: A Day of Construction and Commerce December 13, 1805 Eighteen Elk and Two Cat Skins: Three Pens at Fort Clatsop December 14, 1805 Raising the Roof at Fort Clatsop: Three Views of a Rainy Saturday December 15, 1805 Two Vantage Points on a Wet December Elk Haul December 16, 1805 One of the Worst Days That Ever Was: Three Voices on a Tempest at the Netul December 17, 1805 Chinking, Hail, and a Snow-Capped Mountain: Three Views from a Half-Built Fort December 18, 1805 Frozen Rain, Bare Feet, and a New Bird: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop December 19, 1805 Boards, Birds, and a Sick Sergeant: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop December 20, 1805 Roofing Fort Clatsop in the Rain: Two Voices on a Working Day December 21, 1805 Two Camps, Two Calendars: A Disjuncture at Fort Clatsop December 22, 1805 Rain, Spoiling Meat, and a Misplaced Memory at Fort Clatsop December 23, 1805 Three Pens, Two Rivers: A Disjointed Day on the Pacific Slope December 24, 1805 Christmas Eve at Fort Clatsop: Rain, Refusals, and a Roof Overhead December 26, 1805 Fleas, Wet Powder, and a Smoky Christmas Aftermath at Fort Clatsop December 27, 1805 Spoiled Elk, Sweet Roots, and a December Mosquito at Fort Clatsop December 28, 1805 Salt, Storms, and a Beached Whale: Three Voices at Fort Clatsop December 29, 1805 Spoiled Elk, Wapato Roots, and a Whale on the Coast December 30, 1805 Sumptuous Supper, Shut Gates: Closing Fort Clatsop’s First Threshold December 31, 1805 Sentinels, Wapato, and a Repaired Musket: The Last Day of 1805 at Fort Clatsop January 1, 1806 Four Pens, One New Year: Ushering in 1806 at Fort Clatsop January 2, 1806 Fleas, Elk, and the Echoes Between Captains’ Pens January 3, 1806 Dog Meat, Whale Blubber, and a Captain’s Honest Disagreement January 4, 1806 Four Pens, Four Worlds: Trade, Trail, and the Exhausted Wappato January 5, 1806 Salt, Blubber, and the Cord That Binds: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop January 11, 1806 A Lost Canoe and a Coastal Trade Network January 12, 1806 Drouillard’s Seven Elk and a New Rationing System January 13, 1806 Candles, Tallow, and the Coastal Trade: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop January 14, 1806 A Lost Pirogue and a Pacific Trade Puzzle January 15, 1806 Seven Robes for a Coat: Parallel Ethnography at Fort Clatsop January 16, 1806 Patient Strategy and Patient Copying: Twin Entries from Fort Clatsop January 17, 1806 Chief Beads and Cedar Bowls: Trade and Material Culture at Fort Clatsop January 18, 1806 Four Pens, One Dog, and a Clatsop House January 19, 1806 Clatsop Hats and the Architecture of Authority January 20, 1806 Six Pounds in Two Days: Hunger, Habit, and Hospitality at Fort Clatsop January 21, 1806 The Sweet Thistle Root: Parallel Botany at Fort Clatsop January 22, 1806 Two Botanists at Fort Clatsop: Ferns, Licorice, and the Limits of Shared Authorship January 23, 1806 Brains, Ashes, and Bulbs: Parallel Pens at Fort Clatsop January 24, 1806 Marksmen, Medicine, and Barefoot Visitors: Four Views from Fort Clatsop January 25, 1806 Empty Hands at the Salt Camp: Hunger, Berries, and the Mechanics of Co-Authorship January 26, 1806 The Shallon Berry and a Pair of Lost Salt-Makers January 27, 1806 Ten Elk on a Mountainside, and a Mercury Cure at Fort Clatsop January 28, 1806 Snow-Covered Elk and the Naming of the Netul: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop January 29, 1806 Lean Elk and Cedar Hats: Divergent Registers at Fort Clatsop January 30, 1806 Green Pine, Sac-a-commis, and Conic Hats: Three Pens at Fort Clatsop January 31, 1806 Ice on the River, a Bird in the Hand: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop February 1, 1806 Hunters on the Netul, Canoes on the Page: Parallel Labors at Fort Clatsop February 2, 1806 One Month Elapsed: Ethnography and Tedium at Fort Clatsop February 3, 1806 Seven Elk, One Bushel of Salt: Provisioning Anxieties at Fort Clatsop February 4, 1806 Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: Elk Forage and the Giant Fir February 5, 1806 A Lost Canoe Recovered and a Sitka Spruce Described February 6, 1806 Stolen Elk and Studied Firs: Three Voices at Fort Clatsop February 7, 1806 Marrowbones and Smallpox: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop February 8, 1806 Elk Tongues and Salal Leaves: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop February 9, 1806 Jerking Meat and Cataloguing Firs: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop February 10, 1806 A Wounded Knee, a Sick Camp, and a Botanist’s Eye February 11, 1806 Hunters in the Rain, Botanists by the Fire: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop February 12, 1806 Three Dogs, Two Shrubs, and the Mechanics of Co-Authorship at Fort Clatsop February 13, 1806 Ferns, Rumored Cows, and a Carrot of Tobacco: Three Voices at Fort Clatsop February 14, 1806 Mapping the Continent: Clark’s Cartographic Breakthrough at Fort Clatsop February 15, 1806 Gibson Carried Home: Three Voices on a Sick Man’s Return to Fort Clatsop February 16, 1806 A Captured Vulture and a Borrowed Page: Parallel Journals at Fort Clatsop February 17, 1806 Salt, Elk, and the Measure of a Condor: Four Pens at Fort Clatsop February 18, 1806 Wind on the Bay, Wonders in the Fort: Four Voices at Clatsop February 19, 1806 Salt, Skins, and Silver Foxes: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop February 20, 1806 Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: A Chinook Chief, a Hatful of Cedar Bark, and the Captains’ Doctrine of Distrust February 21, 1806 Salt Camp Closed, Specimens Catalogued: Four Voices on a Stormy Friday at Fort Clatsop February 22, 1806 Cedar-Bark Hats and the Captains’ Parallel Pens February 23, 1806 Three Pens at Fort Clatsop: Ordway’s Illness and the Sea Otter Described February 24, 1806 Eulachon, Elk, and the Division of Naturalist Labor at Fort Clatsop February 25, 1806 A Storm-Bound Fort and the First Sketch of the Eulachon February 26, 1806 Empty Stores and the Mystery of the Sewelel February 27, 1806 The Badger, the Rat, and the Brevity of Sergeants February 28, 1806 Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: A Sturgeon Sale, Five Elk, and a White-Tailed Hare March 1, 1806 Booted Toes and a Boy for Sale: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop March 2, 1806 A Feast of Anchovies and the Cock of the Plains: Three Voices at Fort Clatsop March 3, 1806 Counting Days and Cataloguing Pheasants: Four Pens at Fort Clatsop March 4, 1806 Steamed Sturgeon and Silent Skies: Domestic Science at Fort Clatsop March 5, 1806 Empty Traps and a Plan to Move: Three Voices at Fort Clatsop March 6, 1806 Anchovies, Ailments, and the Catalogue of Coastal Birds March 7, 1806 One Elk, Two Loons, and a Bandage of Flannel: Divergent Registers at Fort Clatsop March 8, 1806 Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: Hunters’ Returns and a Naturalist’s Catalogue March 9, 1806 Whistling Swans and Trade Visitors: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop March 10, 1806 A Giant Fir, Three Pens: Measuring the Forest at Fort Clatsop March 11, 1806 Anchovies, Sturgeon, and a Drifted Canoe: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop March 12, 1806 Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: Routine Labor and the Calamet Eagle March 13, 1806 Moccasins, Salmon, and a Lost Pirogue: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop March 14, 1806 An Indifferent Canoe and a Laced Uniform Coat: Trade, Game, and Salmon Trout at Fort Clatsop March 15, 1806 Four Elk, a Lost Foresight, and an Unwelcome Return at Fort Clatsop March 16, 1806 A Scant Dependence: Dwindling Trade Goods and a New Fish at Fort Clatsop March 17, 1806 A Uniform Coat for a Canoe: Departure Preparations at Fort Clatsop March 18, 1806 Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: Departure Lists, Stolen Canoes, and a Sick Hunter March 19, 1806 Three Pens at Fort Clatsop: Weather, Gratitude, and an Ethnographic Set Piece March 20, 1806 Storm-Bound at Fort Clatsop: Four Ledgers of a Winter’s End March 21, 1806 Four Pens, Four Registers: A Day of Hunger and Visitors at Fort Clatsop March 22, 1806 Last Hours at Fort Clatsop: Four Pens on the Eve of Departure