A Captured Vulture and a Borrowed Page: Parallel Journals at Fort Clatsop
1806-02-16The journals of February 16, 1806 offer an unusually clean specimen of the collaborative writing…
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Winter at Fort Clatsop
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View allA Damp Christmas at Fort Clatsop: Two Enlisted Men Mark the Day
1805-12-25The journals of Patrick Gass and John Ordway for December 25, 1805 read, at first…
A Feast of Anchovies and the Cock of the Plains: Three Voices at Fort Clatsop
1806-03-02March 2, 1806, at Fort Clatsop. Three published journals survive for the day in this…
A Giant Fir, Three Pens: Measuring the Forest at Fort Clatsop
1806-03-10March 10, 1806 was, by all three accounts, a windy day at Fort Clatsop that…
A Scant Dependence: Dwindling Trade Goods and a New Fish at Fort Clatsop
1806-03-16The journal entries for March 16, 1806 offer an unusually clear window into the divided…
A Uniform Coat for a Canoe: Departure Preparations at Fort Clatsop
1806-03-17The entries of March 17, 1806 capture the Corps of Discovery in the final, restless…
An Indifferent Canoe and a Laced Uniform Coat: Trade, Game, and Salmon Trout at Fort Clatsop
1806-03-14The journal entries for March 14, 1806, offer a useful case study in how four…
Anchovies, Sturgeon, and a Drifted Canoe: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop
1806-03-11The journal entries for March 11, 1806 present an unusually clear specimen of how the…
Boards, Birds, and a Sick Sergeant: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop
1805-12-19The journal entries of December 19, 1805, capture the Corps of Discovery in the second…
Booted Toes and a Boy for Sale: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop
1806-03-01The entries of March 1, 1806, offer an unusually clear specimen of the stratified record-keeping…
Brains, Ashes, and Bulbs: Parallel Pens at Fort Clatsop
1806-01-23The entries of January 23, 1806 offer an unusually clean specimen of the textual relationship…
Cabins, Fleas, and Clatsop Traders: A Day of Construction and Commerce
1805-12-12The journal entries for December 12, 1805, capture a working day at the unfinished Fort…
Candles, Tallow, and the Coastal Trade: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop
1806-01-13The entries for January 13, 1806, offer an unusually clear window into how the four…
Chief Beads and Cedar Bowls: Trade and Material Culture at Fort Clatsop
1806-01-17The journal entries for January 17, 1806 offer an unusually clear window into how the…
Christmas Eve at Fort Clatsop: Rain, Refusals, and a Roof Overhead
1805-12-24Christmas Eve 1805 at Fort Clatsop from Clark and Ordway. Thwaites’s Whitehouse ends 6 November…
Clatsop Hats and the Architecture of Authority
1806-01-19The journal entries for January 19, 1806 offer a striking demonstration of how the Lewis…
Counting Days and Cataloguing Pheasants: Four Pens at Fort Clatsop
1806-03-03March 3, 1806 finds the Corps of Discovery becalmed at Fort Clatsop, four weeks from…
Departing Fort Clatsop: Four Voices Ascend the Columbia
1806-03-30March 30, 1806, marks the expedition's first full day of upriver travel after departing Fort…
Departure from Fort Clatsop: Two Sergeants Watch the Canoes Push Off
1806-03-23The Corps of Discovery left Fort Clatsop at one o'clock in the afternoon, ending a…
Eighteen Elk and Two Cat Skins: Three Pens at Fort Clatsop
1805-12-13December 13, 1805 was an ordinary working day at the half-built Fort Clatsop: Indian visitors…
Elk Tongues and Salal Leaves: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop
1806-02-08February 8, 1806 at Fort Clatsop offers an unusually clean specimen for cross-narrator analysis: four…
Empty Traps and a Plan to Move: Three Voices at Fort Clatsop
1806-03-05March 5, 1806, at Fort Clatsop. Three published journals survive for the day in this…
Eulachon, Elk, and the Division of Naturalist Labor at Fort Clatsop
1806-02-24The journal entries of February 24th, 1806 offer an unusually clean demonstration of how the…
Ferns, Rumored Cows, and a Carrot of Tobacco: Three Voices at Fort Clatsop
1806-02-13The entries of February 13, 1806 offer an unusually clear view of how the Lewis…
Five Words and a Sick List: Two Registers of Construction at Fort Clatsop
1805-12-11The journal entries for December 11, 1805 present one of the starkest register contrasts in…
Fleas, Wet Powder, and a Smoky Christmas Aftermath at Fort Clatsop
1805-12-26The day after Christmas at the newly occupied Fort Clatsop produced three strikingly different journal…
Foundations in the Rain: Three Views from a Single Day at Fort Clatsop
1805-12-10The entries for December 10, 1805 capture a divided expedition: Captain William Clark was returning…
Four Elk, a Lost Foresight, and an Unwelcome Return at Fort Clatsop
1806-03-15The journal entries for March 15, 1806 offer a textbook case of how the four…
Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: A Chinook Chief, a Hatful of Cedar Bark, and the Captains’ Doctrine of Distrust
1806-02-20The journals of February 20, 1806 offer an unusually clear demonstration of how the Lewis…
Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: A Sturgeon Sale, Five Elk, and a White-Tailed Hare
1806-02-28The journal entries for February 28, 1806 offer an unusually clean specimen for cross-narrator comparison.…
Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: Departure Lists, Stolen Canoes, and a Sick Hunter
1806-03-18The journals for March 18, 1806 (mistakenly headed March 17 by Clark) capture Fort Clatsop…
Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: Elk Forage and the Giant Fir
1806-02-04The journals of February 4th, 1806 offer an unusually clear demonstration of how the four…
Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: Hunters’ Returns and a Naturalist’s Catalogue
1806-03-08The entries of March 8, 1806, offer a useful case study in how the four…
Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: Routine Labor and the Calamet Eagle
1806-03-12March 12, 1806, at Fort Clatsop. Four published journals survive for the day in this…
Four Pens, Four Registers: A Day of Hunger and Visitors at Fort Clatsop
1806-03-21The journal entries for March 21, 1806 offer one of the clearest demonstrations of how…
Four Pens, One Dog, and a Clatsop House
1806-01-18The journals of January 18, 1806 offer one of the clearest demonstrations of the divided…
Four Pens, One New Year: Ushering in 1806 at Fort Clatsop
1806-01-01The first day of 1806 finds the Corps of Discovery newly settled at Fort Clatsop,…
Frozen Rain, Bare Feet, and a New Bird: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop
1805-12-18The journal entries for December 18, 1805 expose a striking divergence of attention among the…
Gibson Carried Home: Three Voices on a Sick Man’s Return to Fort Clatsop
1806-02-15The entries of February 15, 1806, capture a single event from radically different vantage points:…
Green Pine, Sac-a-commis, and Conic Hats: Three Pens at Fort Clatsop
1806-01-30The journal entries for January 30, 1806 from Fort Clatsop offer a striking demonstration of…
Hunters in the Rain, Botanists by the Fire: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop
1806-02-11The journals of February 11, 1806 offer a striking case study in how four men…
Hunters on the Netul, Canoes on the Page: Parallel Labors at Fort Clatsop
1806-02-01The first day of February 1806 at Fort Clatsop produced one of the clearest examples…
Ice on the River, a Bird in the Hand: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop
1806-01-31The entries for January 31, 1806, offer an unusually clean experiment in cross-narrator comparison. All…
Jerking Meat and Cataloguing Firs: Four Voices at Fort Clatsop
1806-02-09February 9, 1806 produced one of the more striking demonstrations of how unevenly the four…
Last Hours at Fort Clatsop: Four Pens on the Eve of Departure
1806-03-22The 22nd of March 1806 was the last full day the Corps of Discovery would…
Lean Elk and Cedar Hats: Divergent Registers at Fort Clatsop
1806-01-29The entries for January 29, 1806, offer an unusually clear demonstration of how the four…
Mapping the Continent: Clark’s Cartographic Breakthrough at Fort Clatsop
1806-02-14The entry for February 14, 1806 offers one of the clearest demonstrations in the Fort…
Marksmen, Medicine, and Barefoot Visitors: Four Views from Fort Clatsop
1806-01-24The events of January 24, 1806 at Fort Clatsop were straightforward: George Drouillard and Jean-Baptiste…
