On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
After spending the night at a village near present Seaside, Oregon, Clark impresses the Clatsop by shooting several ducks with his small rifle. He then returns to the Netul River where the men have started building their winter fort.
From the journals...
Tuesday Decemr. 10th
The party that was at Camp all turned out & were employed in cutting of Pickets & carrying them to the place where our Officers intend erecting a fort.
Pickets
Tuesday 10th December 1805
found Capt. Lewis with all hands felling trees, to build with
Saw a bears track & the tracks of 2 Elk in the thick woods
Bear tracks
Tuesday 10th December 1805
The Sea Coast is about 7 miles distant Nearly West about 5 miles of the distance through a thick wood with reveens hills and Swamps the land, rich black moald 2 miles in a open wavering Sandy prarie, ridge runing parrelal to the river, Covered with Green Grass.
Clatsop Plains
