Well-known terrain from Pittsburgh to St.
Field note version of travelers journal full#
Lewis may have felt no need for a full journal account because he was traveling across Provides us with a nearly complete record. That point on, Clark's faithful journal-keeping Louis while Clark led the boat party forward to establish Camp Dubois. Separated, Lewis going ahead by land to St. His journal writing on November 11 but gave the journal to Clark on November 28 near Kaskaskia, as the two captains He certainly had ample time to supply the omitted information during theįive months that he spent in the St. Suggests that he probably had no preliminary notes to furnish the missing material. The intention of supplying the missing information later. From September 19 to November 11, however, he made no entriesĪnd left thirty-nine pages blank in the notebook between these separated entries, perhaps with He began a diary, the Eastern Journal, when he left Pittsburgh in August 1803 on his wayĭown the Ohio River to St. Lewis seems to have displayed a pattern of laxness in consistent journal-writing from the May 1804 to September 1806, there are over four hundred days of missing entries by Lewis during Clark at least kept a rough diary during that time. Louis area, a time for which no Lewis journal is known. Might also include the period from November 28, 1803, to May 14, 1804, during the winter in the The last gap can be explained by Lewis's being partially disabled from a wound inĬontrast to other lapses in writing, he noted at the time that he was laying down his pen. To January 1, 1806, and a final hiatus from August 12, 1806, to the completion of theĮxpedition. Trip on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from September 19 to November 11, 1803, a nearlyĬomplete lapse from May 14, 1804, to April 7, 1805, only spotty entries from August 26, 1805, The gaps in Lewis's writings are numerous and extensive. Only hope that more of Lewis's writings are still to be found. To a large degree, theseĬonsiderations are interpretative and speculative and the conclusions are tentative. Journals, considers where gaps might be filled with the discovery of new materials, andĬoncludes that there are few possibilities of new finds. Large gaps in his writing during and about the expedition. No hope ofĭiscovery ranks so high as the hope of finding Meriwether Lewis's diaries, which would fill the These discoveries seem to support the notion of other lost items yet to be found. Narrative almost five months, appeared in a bookstore in Philadelphia. Paul, Minnesota and as recently as 1966, a fair copy of Private Joseph Whitehouse's journal, which extended the Journal and Lewis and Clark's Eastern Journalīiddle, editor of the 1814 paraphrase of the journals in 1953, Clark's Field Notes were discovered in an attic roll-top desk in Journals, discovered unknown Clark diaries andĭescendants in 1915, Sergeant John Ordway's In 1903, Reuben Gold Thwaites, editor of the centennial edition of the
Over the years, numerous documents of the expedition have come to light, some in the most Persists a nagging question: Is the record complete? Legacy in field notes, notebook journals, field journals, and scraps of diary writings, there In large measure, the scope and quality of the documents account for much of theĬontinuing fascination in the Lewis and Clarkĭespite the quantity of the Lewis and Clark Men set a standard of record-keeping for later expeditions and left a literary heritage for theĪges. On those records rest all the expedition's claims to greatness. Peculiarities in spelling, grammar, and punctuation make the journals the hallmarks of that Observations of plants, animals, weather, and terrain, and the writing style with its charming The careful record of daily activities, the extensive scientific Unmatched by any similar enterprise, and the depth of the leaders' observations and insights These diaries, written by the twoĬaptains and four enlisted men, contain over a million words. Expedition are one of our country's national treasures.
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