Non-swimmers carry baggage, and others paddle the empty dugout canoes though the lower rapids of the Cascades of the Columbia. The entire corps then paddles twenty miles passing Beacon Rock. They camp below present Crown Point in Oregon.
Another Bad Rapid
by Yellowstone Public Radio[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. © … Continue reading
Beacon Rock
Photo by Kiser Bros. for Olin D. Wheeler, The Trail of Lewis and Clark. See also Wheeler’s “Trail of Lewis and Clark”.
Last Rapid
Examined the rapid below us more pertcelarly the danger appearing too great to Hazzard our Canoes loaded, dispatched all the men who could not Swim with loads to the end of the portage below, I also walked to the end of the portage with the carriers where I delayed untill everry articles was brought over and canoes arrived Safe. here we brackfast
—William Clark
Passing Beacon Rock
at 17 miles passed a rock near the middle of the river, about 100 feet high and 80 feet Diamuter, proceed on down a Smoth gentle Stream of about 2 miles wide, in which the tide has its effect as high as the Beaten rock or the Last rapids at Strawberry Island,—
—William Clark
Watlala Village
passed three Islands covered with tall timber opposit the Beatin rock Those Islands are nearest the Starboard Side, imediately below on the Stard. Side passed a village of nine houses, which is Situated between 2 Small Creeks, and are of the Same construction of those above;
—William Clark
Columbia River from Crown Point (view west)
Arthur Rothstein, 1936 for the U.S. Office of War Information, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b27911.
Below Rooster Rock, the Columbia Gorge transitions to the inner coastal valley shown above. Rooster Rock and Crown Point are behind and to the left of the photographer’s vantage point.
High Cliffs
on the Lard. side Saw a number of Spring runs flowing from the high clifts and Mountains. Some of which falls off about 100 feet perpinticular we came 21 miles this day & Camped under a verry Shelving clift on the Lard. Side—
—John Ordway
Great Numbers of Waterfowl
Saw great numbers of waterfowl of Different kinds, Such as Swan, Geese, white & grey brants, ducks of various kinds, Guls, & Pleaver. Labeach [Labiche] killed 14 brant Joseph Fields 3 & Collins one.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Day of the month Wind State of the Weather 2nd S W. fair —Meriwether Lewis[2]Some abbreviations have been spelled out.
Beacon Rock 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 Washington State 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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| ↑2 | Some abbreviations have been spelled out. |
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