Day-by-Day / December 19, 1805

December 19, 1805

'Borrowing' Clatsop boards

Several Clatsops visit the Fort Clatsop construction site, and everyone except Sgt. Ordway is in good health. Sgt. Pryor heads a detachment across Youngs Bay to retrieve boards from an abandoned Clatsop house.

A New Bird

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

Clatsop Boards

we dispatched Sjt. Pryor with 8 men in 2 Canoes across Meriwethers Bay [Youngs Bay] for the boards of an old [Clatsop] Indian house which is vacant, the residue of the men at work at their huts . . . . Serjt. Pryor & party returned in the evening with a load of old boards which was found to be verry indifferent
William Clark

Health Report

It rained hard all last night, & continued the same this morning. Serjeant Ordway was very sick, but the Men in general continue in good health, notwithstanding the bad weather & hardships that they undergo.—
Joseph Whitehouse

Clatsop Visitors

Several of the Clatsop Savages came to visit us &C.
John Ordway

Weather Diary

rained last night and Several Showers of Hail and rain to day. the air Cool.
Meriwether Lewis

 

Notes

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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