Glimpses from the Journals of Lewis and Clark – Part II

Corps of Discovery members meet Chinook Indians on the Lower Columbia in October 1805 in this 1905 painting by Charles M. Russell.

By Roberta McKern
For The New Era

Last month, we began looking into the Journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who compiled them in 1804 to 1806 under the aegis of President Thomas Jefferson.

Our very interesting version here at East Linn Museum is a brief edition, edited and much boiled down by Bernard DeVoto 150 years after the Journals recorded the expedition of discovery’s travel through the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific…