Fort Clatsop, OR The captains describe Chinookan lifeways detailing their manner of dress, decoration, and how they flatten their foreheads.
Tag: Coboway
March 7, 1806
Fort Clatsop, OR Lewis briefly describes aquatic birds: four seagull species, the black cormorant, Arctic loon, and western grebe. Bratton’s back pain worsens, and the elk hunters have a little success.
March 6, 1806
Fort Clatsop, OR Coboway and two of his children bring cooked eulachon to Fort Clatsop, pleasing the captains. Detachments are sent to hunt and fish, several men are sick, and Lewis lists the aquatic birds of the area.
February 25, 1806
Fort Clatsop, OR With rain and violent winds, there is little movement today. Lewis describes the western gray squirrel, new to science.
February 24, 1806
Fort Clatsop, OR Several are sick and Sgt. Ordway writes that he has influenza. Lewis describes sea otters and seals.
January 17, 1806
Fort Clatsop, Astoria, OR Lewis describes the eating utensils used by the Chinookan Indians including woven baskets and hats. A Clatsop man refuses to trade his otter skin robe for anything other than blue beads.
January 4, 1806
Fort Clatsop, OR Gass and Shannon travel t to the salt makers’ camp, and Lewis describes Clatsop Indian views on material goods. In Washington City, President Jefferson meets with an Indian delegation organized in part by Lewis and Clark.
January 3, 1806
Fort Clatsop, Astoria, OR Visiting Clatsops sell roots, berries, fresh whale blubber, and dogs. Three hunters return empty-handed, and two men are sent to bring Willard and Weiser back from the salt maker’s camp.
December 29, 1805
Fort Clatsop, Astoria, OR Overnight guests leave with a razor. Later in the day, six Wahkiakum traders present wapato bulbs and elk leather. Clark gives out a small peace medal and ties a red ribbon to a cone hat.
December 27, 1805
Fort Clatsop, Astoria, OR Small groups are hunting, setting up a camp to make salt, building chimneys, and making pickets and gates. Chief Coboway brings roots, and his group receives gifts in return.
December 12, 1805
Fort Clatsop, Astoria, OR In addition to receiving Coboway’s peace medal, several Clatsops trade their food for fishhooks and Indian tobacco. Three cabin walls are completed, and the search begins to find wood suitable for making roofs.
Discover More
- 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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