Columbia Articles
In the interest of providing historical background information on the Lewis & Clark Expedition, relevant articles from COLUMBIA Magazine will appear in this space. Check back often for more additions!
Adventures in Ichthyology: Pacific Northwest Fish of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
By Dennis D. Dauble
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Fall 2005; Vol. 19, No. 3
Lewis & Clark made it a challenge for future fish experts to identify all the varieties of fish encountered during the expedition.
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Twisted Hair, Tetoharsky, and the Origin of the New Sacagawea Myth
By David L. Nicandri
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Summer 2005; Vol. 19, No. 2
Unraveling the Sacagawea myths.
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Sold Our Canoes for a Few Strands of Beads: The Lewis & Clark Canoes on the Columbia River
By Robert & Barbara Danielson
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Spring 2005; Vol. 19, No. 1
The changing role of canoes on the Columbia Riber stretch of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Searching for Point Lewis: Piecing Together the Location of a Lost Landmark
By Allen "Doc" Wesselius
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Winter 2004-05; Vol. 18, No. 4
A history sleuth solves the mystery of William Clark's lost landmark.
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Long Arm: The Black Powder Arms of Lewis & Clark
By Mark Van Rhyn
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Fall 2004; Vol. 18, No. 3
A look at the role of firearms on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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Old Rivet
By John C. Jackson
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Summer 2004; Vol. 18, No. 2
The Surviving Member of the Corps of Discovery in the Northwest.
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Grouse of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
By Michael A. Schroeder
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Winter 2003-04; Vol. 17, No. 4
Lewis and Clark included numerous descriptions of the grouse in their journals.
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"So Vast an Enterprise"
Lewis & Clark Revisited
By James P. Ronda
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Fall 2003; Vol. 17, No. 3
Historian James P. Ronda discusses the Lewis & Clark expedition in the context of a great American road trip.
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Hunting for Empire
Lewis and Clark Claim a Continent for Science
By Daniel Herman
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Summer 2003; Vol. 17, No. 2
As hunters and "men of science," Lewis and Clark laid claim to America.
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Lewis & Clark's Indian Presents
The Evolving and Misleading Documentary Record of the Expedition Inventory
By Kenneth Karsmizki
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Winter 2002-03; Vol. 16, No. 4
Following the confusing paper trail of how much and what kinds of gifts and trade goods the Corps of Discovery carried west.
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Provision Camp
The Lewis & Clark Expedition, March 31 to April 6, 1806
By Roger Daniels
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Fall 2002; Vol. 16, No. 3
The Corps of Discovery departs from Fort Clatsop on their eastward journey home.
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Following in Their Footsteps
By Wallace G. Lewis
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Spring 2002; Vol. 16, No. 1
The birth and infancy of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail,
24 years old in November 2002.
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Knowing Your "Place"
Lewis & Clark and the Invention of American Realism
By James P. Ronda
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Spring 2002; Vol. 16, No. 1
Presented as the Curtiss Hill Lecture
at the Washington State Historical Society's 2000 Annual Meeting.
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A Lasting Legacy
The Lewis and Clark Place Names of the
Pacific Northwest-PART IV
By Allen "Doc" Wesselius
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Fall 2001; Vol. 15, No. 4
This is the fourth and final installment of our series on the place name designations used by co-captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as the Corps of Discovery made its way through the vast and varied landscape of the Pacific Northwest.
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A Lasting Legacy
The Lewis and Clark Place Names of the
Pacific Northwest-PART III
By Allen "Doc" Wesselius
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Fall 2001; Vol. 15, No. 3
This is the third in a four-part series detailing Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's use of place names on their journey through the Pacific Northwest, and how those names have fared through the years.
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A Lasting Legacy
The Lewis and Clark Place Names of the
Pacific Northwest-PART II
By Allen "Doc" Wesselius
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Summer 2001; Vol. 15, No. 2
The second in a four-part series discussing the history of the Lewis and Clark expedition and the explorers' efforts to identify, for posterity, elements of the Northwest landscape that they encountered on their journey.
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A Lasting Legacy
The Lewis and Clark Place Names of the
Pacific Northwest-PART I
By Allen "Doc" Wesselius
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Spring 2001; Vol. 15, No. 1
Proceeding generally in an east-to-west direction, Lewis and Clark historian "Doc" Wesselius discusses the history of the expedition and the explorers' attempts, some successful and some not, to literally put their stamp upon the Northwest landscape.
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The Vote: "Station Camp," Washington
By Dayton Duncan
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Spring 2001; Vol. 15, No. 1
An address originally delivered on July 4, 2000, at Fort Columbia, Chinook, Washington, near the site of the Corps of Discover's "Station Camp."
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Seneca Falls to Celilo Falls
Ruminations of a Traveling Historian
By David L. Nicandri
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Winter 1999-2000; Vol. 13, No. 4
This History Commentary was taken from from a talk given at a Western States Tourism Council in Tacoma in the fall of 1998.
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The Sacagawea Mystique:
Her Age, Name, Role and Final Destiny
By Irving W. Anderson
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Fall 1999; Vol. 13, No. 3
Irving W. Anderson provided this biographical essay on Sacagawea, the Shoshoni Indian woman member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, as background information prefacing the issuance of the new Sacagawea dollar.
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Self-Destruction on the Natchez Trace
Meriwether Lewis's Act of Ultimate Courage
By Reimert Thorolf Ravenholt, M.D.
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Summer 1999; Vol. 13, No. 2
The author provides a scientific solution to the 184-year mystery of Meriwether Lewis's death.
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The Legacy of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
By Michelle Bussard
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Spring 1998; Volume 12, Number 1
Remarks by Michelle Bussard, executive director of the Lewis and Clark
Trail Heritage Foundation and the Lewis and Clark National Bicentennial Council, presented at Vancouver Barracks on October 29, 1997, at a public planning process meeting for the proposed Vancouver National Historic Reserve.
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What the Lewis and Clark Expedition Means to America
By Dayton Duncan
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Winter 1997/98; Volume 11, Number 4
A speech by Dayton Duncan, writer and co-producer, with Ken Burns, of Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, presented at the May 1997 National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council meeting in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
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Harbingers of Change
European Influences in the Aboriginal Northwest
as Seen through the Journals of Lewis and Clark
By Lawrence H. Cebula
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Summer 1997; Vol. 11, No. 2
Plateau natives had embraced and adapted themselves to Euro-American influences and were actively reaching out for further contacts with the world beyond when Lewis and Clark arrived.
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Lewis & Clark's Water Route to the Northwest
The Exploration That Finally Laid to Rest the Myth of a Northwest Passage
By Merle Wells
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Winter 1994/95; Volume 8, Number 4
Discovery of an overland water route to Puget Sound or the mouth of the Columbia River kept several prominent explorers—Alexander Mackenzie, Lewis and Clark, and David Thompson—busy for more than two decades.
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What Really Happened to Meriwether Lewis?
The suicide explanation is not generally believed down on the Natchez Trail.
By Dee Brown
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Winter 1988; Vol. 1, No. 4
Still a mystery, after more than a century and a half, oral tradition has turned the death of Meriwether Lewis into an ongoing legend.
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Lewis and Clark
They were not legends in their own time.
By John McClelland
Published in COLUMBIA Magazine: Summer 1987; Vol. 1, No. 2
Lewis & Clark's famous expedition is well-known throughout America today, but in their own time, the Corps of Discovery was pretty much unheralded.
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