Journals of Lewis & Clark, V10: Patrick Gass

Journals of Lewis & Clark, V10: Patrick GassAn accomplished carpenter and boat builder, Patrick Gass proved to be an invaluable and well liked member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Promoted to sergeant after the death of Charles Floyd, Gass was almost certainly responsible for supervising the building of Forts Mandan and Clatsop. His records of those forts and of the earth lodges of the Mandans and Hidatsas are particularly detailed and useful. Gass was the last survivor of the Corps of

Peck’s Or Perish in the Attempt ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with an examination of the health problems their expedition faced

naval officers

the crossroads of an empire

nestled in fitted compartments within the gorgeous teak mango wood box

in order to recreate the expedition within its historical context

quills may vary slightly in length and color from the images here

This map and the written account of the expedition changed American mapping of the northwest by giving the first accurate depiction of the relationship of the sources of the Missouri

mapping the rivers as he went

along with vivid descriptions of encounters with Native peoples and unknown lands and discoveries of new species of flora and fauna

mosses and lichens

Includes 40 landscape features viewable along trails in Washington and Oregon

Along the way they portaged the difficult Great Falls