Great Falls

Four Pens at the Great Falls: Boat-Building, Bruises, and a Recovered Compass

1805-06-30

The journals of June 30, 1805 capture the Corps of Discovery operating in three geographically…

Mud, Rain, and an Overturned Canoe: The Great Falls Portage in Its Final Hours

1806-07-25

July 25, 1806 finds the Corps of Discovery split across the breadth of present-day Montana.…

Storming the Bear’s Island: Three Voices on a Single Day at the Great Falls

1805-07-02

The entries of July 2, 1805 offer an unusually clean comparative case. All three journalists…

The Iron-Frame Boat and the Buffalo Plain: Three Voices at the Great Falls Portage

1805-07-05

The journal entries of July 5, 1805, written from the Great Falls Portage camp, illustrate…

Three Voices at the Great Falls: Portage, Pounded Fish, and a Nameless River

1805-10-22

The expedition's arrival at the first great rapids of the Columbia — near present-day Celilo…

Wagons, Axletrees, and Drowning Buffalo: Two Views of the Great Falls Portage

1805-06-22

June 22, 1805, in the Great Falls portage. Two published journals in this corpus record…

Lewis and Clark with Sacajawea at the Great Falls of Missouri

Seltzer's small oil shows the Corps of Discovery party at the Great Falls of the…