Several Clatsops visit the Fort Clatsop construction site, and everyone except Sgt. Ordway is in good health. Sgt. Pryor heads a detachment across Youngs Bay to retrieve boards from an abandoned Clatsop house.
A New Bird
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Clatsop Plank House
Fort Stevens State Park
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Clatsop Boards
we dispatched Sjt. Pryor with 8 men in 2 Canoes across Meriwethers Bay [Youngs Bay] for the boards of an old [Clatsop] Indian house which is vacant, the residue of the men at work at their huts . . . . Serjt. Pryor & party returned in the evening with a load of old boards which was found to be verry indifferent
—William Clark
Health Report
It rained hard all last night, & continued the same this morning. Serjeant Ordway was very sick, but the Men in general continue in good health, notwithstanding the bad weather & hardships that they undergo.—
—Joseph Whitehouse
Clatsop Visitors
Several of the Clatsop Savages came to visit us &C.
—John Ordway
Weather Diary
rained last night and Several Showers of Hail and rain to day. the air Cool.
—Meriwether Lewis
Fort Clatsop is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site is managed by the Lewis and Clark National and State Historic Parks.
Notes
| ↑1 | Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © 2003 by Yellowstone Public Radio. |
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