At the Fort Clatsop building site, the enlisted men install plank roofing using boards they had previously split and planks taken from an old Clatsop lodge. Unfortunately, there are not enough boards to cover all the cabins. Clark complains about the high price of food.
High Priced Food
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
Fort Clatsop—December 1805
10″ x 16.75″ oil on board
© 2009 by Charles Fritz. Used by permission.
Not Enough Roofing
We collected all the puncheons or slabs we had made, and some which we got from some Indian huts up the bay, but found we had not enough to cover all our huts.
—Patrick Gass
High Food Prices
3 Indians came with Lickorish Sackacomie berries & mats to Sell, for which they asked Such high prices that we did not purchase any of them,— Those people ask double & tribble the value of everry thing they have to Sell, and never take less than the full value of any thing, they prise only Blue & white beeds, files fish hooks and Tobacco— Tobacco and Blue beeds principally
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Day of the Month Winds State of the Weather 20th S. W. fair after rain Hail Some rain and hail last Night the rain Contd. untill 10 a. m
—Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has spelled out some abbreviations.
Fort Clatsop 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 the Lewis and Clark National and State Historic 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 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has spelled out some abbreviations. |
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