The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Volume 5 by Meriwether Lewis

Lewis recommended Clarka retired officer who had served alongside him in the Armyas the expedition’s co. Lewis, President Jefferson’s personal secretary, was an officer in the United States Army and spoke several Native American languages. The material at the end of the notebook to which Ordway refers is found in this volume at his entry of March 22, 1806. The president chose Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark to lead the expedition. So all that is on each Side of this leaf is coppied in the later end of this book and this is no account.' Volume 11 contains the journals of expedition member Joseph Whitehouse. In all, thirteen volumes are projected, which together will provide a complete record of the expedition.

The individuals who composed the party engaged to essay the difficulties dangers & fatigues of this enterprise with the said officers consists of the persons whose Names are in the later part of this book as well as the begining as above, not bein room here. The University of Nebraska Press editions of The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition are widely heralded as a lasting achievement. William Clark, and patronised by the Government of the U. 'A Scatch of the beginning of Sergt John Ordways journal which commenced at Riverĭuboise in Year 1804, 14th of May under the directions of Capt. 1805- it being a minute relation of the various transactions and occurrences which took place during a voiage of two years 4 months 〈Years〉 and 9 days from the United States to the Pacific Ocean through the interior of the Continent of North America.

Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of.

Preceding the initial daily entry is the following on the first two pages of the journal. Meriwether Lewis (Author) William Clark (Author) About the Author. This account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, published in 1814, is based on the detailed journals kept by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. It is one of the marble-covered books of 184 pages measuringĪpproximately 6½ by 3¾ inches (see Appendix C). This begins Ordway's entries in his second notebook journal, covering the period October 1, 1805, to May 15, 1806.

The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Volume 5 by Meriwether Lewis