Four Pens at the Great Falls: Boat-Building, Bruises, and a Recovered Compass
1805-06-30The journals of June 30, 1805 capture the Corps of Discovery operating in three geographically…
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Great Falls Portage
4 of the journal entries and analyses listed below were written there.
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View allMud, Rain, and an Overturned Canoe: The Great Falls Portage in Its Final Hours
1806-07-25July 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
1805-07-02The 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
1805-07-05The 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
1805-10-22The 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
1805-06-22June 22, 1805, in the Great Falls portage. Two published journals in this corpus record…
