A Broken Voyage, a White Bear Skin, and a Missing Sergeant: Four Voices at Camp Chopunnish
1806-06-01The journal entries dated June 1, 1806 offer an unusual structural puzzle for readers of…
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View allA Canoe Lost, a Chief Recovering: Four Voices from Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-30The journal entries for May 30, 1806, written from Camp Chopunnish on the Clearwater River,…
A Deer in the River, a Colt on the Fire: Four Views from Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-22By late May 1806 the Corps of Discovery had been encamped among the Nez Perce…
A Finished Canoe, an Empty Larder: Four Voices at Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-26The entries of May 26, 1806, capture the Corps of Discovery in suspended motion at…
A Horse, a Sweat Lodge, and a Squirrel: Four Voices at Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-27The entries for May 27, 1806, offer an unusually clean specimen of how the Lewis…
A Slender Stock for a Dreary Wilderness: Provisioning at Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-21The 21st of May 1806 found the Corps of Discovery still pinned at Camp Chopunnish…
An Eagle’s Salmon and a Bear of Many Colors: Four Voices at Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-18The entries of May 18, 1806, offer an unusually clear window into how the four…
Bears, Roots, and a Harmless Snake: Four Voices at Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-16The entries of May 16, 1806 offer an unusually clear window into how the expedition's…
Cows Roots, Sweat Lodges, and a Squawling Bird: Four Voices at Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-28The entries of May 28, 1806, offer a striking case study in how four members…
Crossing the Koos-koos-ke: Bears, Horse Surgery, and a Six-Thumbed Trophy
1806-05-14May 14–15, 1806 at Camp Chopunnish on the Koos-koos-ke: four pens on the crossing, bear…
Descent from the Horrible Mountainous Desert: Four Voices at the Nez Perce Villages
1805-09-22September 22, 1805 marked a transition in the expedition: the Corps of Discovery's emergence from…
Diplomacy, Roots, and a Yankee Phrase: Four Voices at Camp Chopunnish
1806-06-06The journals of June 6, 1806, written from Camp Chopunnish on the Kooskooske while the…
Eye-Water, Laudanum, and Cowse Roots: Four Pens at Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-19The 19th of May 1806 finds the Corps of Discovery encamped among the Nez Perce…
Four Pens at Camp Chopunnish: Trade Errands, a Gift Horse, and a Naturalist’s Eye
1806-06-07The entries for June 7, 1806, written from Camp Chopunnish on the Clearwater (which Lewis…
Four Pens, One Council: Diplomacy and Doctoring Among the Chopunnish
1806-05-11The 11th of May 1806 finds the Corps of Discovery encamped among the Chopunnish (Nez…
Horned Lizards, Healing Chiefs, and a Spanish Dollar: Four Voices at Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-29The journal entries dated May 29, 1806, offer an unusually clear demonstration of how the…
Mush, Medicine, and a Unanimous Voice: The Nez Perce Council of May 12
1806-05-12The entries for May 12, 1806 record a day of intense diplomacy and medical practice…
Patience, Patience: A Wet Chronometer and an Icy Barrier at Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-17The journal entries for May 17, 1806, offer a rare opportunity to compare four narrators…
The Nez Perce (Chopunnish): Allies of the Bitterroot and Kooskooske
First Encounter at Weippe PrairieWhen Clark's advance party stumbled out of the Bitterroot Mountains in…
The Puppy and the Physician: Three Voices on a Day Among the Chopunnish
1806-05-05The journal entries for May 5, 1806, offer an unusually rich case for cross-narrator comparison.…
The Sweat Hole at Camp Chopunnish: Four Voices on Frontier Medicine
1806-05-24The journals of May 24, 1806 offer an unusually rich opportunity to compare narrators, because…
Three Vantages on the Nez Perce Villages: Diplomacy, Hunger, and a Lost Horse
1805-09-23The entries of September 23, 1805, divide the expedition geographically and rhetorically. William Clark and…
Two Bears, Two Pens: Naming Hoh-host and Yack-kah at Camp Chopunnish
1806-05-31The journals of May 31, 1806, written from Camp Chopunnish as the expedition waited for…
