Clark and his group leave Cape Disappointment, cross rugged hills, and continue four miles up present Long Beach. Clark sees Columbia black-tailed deer and a dead sturgeon and whale. At Station Camp near Chinook, Washington, one of the men trades his old razor blade for a Chinookan woven hat.
A Sandy Coast
Beard’s Hollow
© 18 December 2010 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
The beach above stretches north for several miles, today known as Long Beach.
after takeing a Sumptious brackfast of venison which was rosted on Stiks exposed to the fire, I proceeded on through ruged Country of high hills and Steep hollers on a course from the Cape N 20° W. 5 miles on a Direct line to the Commencement of a Sandy Coast
—William Clark
York at Long Beach
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Painting created by Split Rock Studios, Sioux City, Iowa. Original in the collection of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation and photographed by Kristopher K. Townsend.
W. CLARK 19th Nov. 1805
I proceeded on the Sandy Coast 4 miles, and marked my name on a Small pine, the Day of the month & year, &c. and returned to the foot of the hill, from which place I intended to Strike across to The Bay
—William Clark
Dead Sturgeon and Whale
I saw a Sturgeon which had been thrown on Shore and left by the tide 10 feet in length, and Several joints of the back bone of a whale which must have foundered on this part of the Coast
—William Clark
Columbia Black-tailed Deer
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Columbia Black-tailed Deer
The [Columbian Black-Tailed] Deer of this Coast differ materially from our Common deer in a much as they are much darker deeper bodied Shorter ledged horns equally branched from the beem of the top of the tail black from the rute to the end Eyes larger and do not lope but jump.
—William Clark
Woven Cone Hat
Some of these Indians Wore hats which they make out of white Cedar & bear Grass. They sold one of these Hatts to one of our party for an old Razor blade.
—Joseph Whitehouse
Weather Diary
Day of the month Wind State of the Weather 19th S E cloudy after rain —Meriwether Lewis[1]Some abbreviations have been spelled out.
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- The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
- The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
- The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.
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