After the Deluge, Part II: Flood Basalts, Glacial Torrents, and Lewis and Clark’S “Swelling, Boiling & Whorling” River Route to the Pacific
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Presidential Message • L & C Roundup • Letters • Book Reviews Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation November 2015 Volume 41, No. 4 After the Deluge, Part II: Flood Basalts, Glacial Torrents, and Lewis and Clark’s “Swelling, boiling & whorling” River Route to the Pacific PlusFive Mysteries from Clark’s 1798 Visit to New Orleans the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal VOLUME 9 - 2015 The Mystery of Alfred Jacob Miller’s Portrait of Captain Joseph Reddeford Walker by Vic Nathan Barkin Questioning the identity of the person whose portrait Miller painted, the image of Joe Walker may not be him at all. Wolverines in the Fur Trade by Fred Poyner IV Though the beaver was the most sought after animal during the fur trade era, many other creatures were trapped. The 1808 Murder Trial of George Drouillard by Melissa Tiffie An in-depth look at an early St. Louis legal case, examining frontier justice using actual court documents. Exploring Rocky Mountain Trapper Productivity by Jim Hardee Attempts to quantify beaver trapping, searching to discover how many pelts a mountaineer might reasonably expect to harvest in a twelve month period. Informative, fun, and inspiring to read! Blackfeet Peacemaker: The Search for Nicholas Small Robe by George Capps The search for the Piegan man who urged peaceful trade with neighboring tribes as well as with trappers. A peer-reviewed scholarly publication from the Museum of the Mountain Man and Jim Bridger Challenges the HBC in the post-Rendezvous Era Sublette County Historical Society by Jerry Enzler A study of fur trade competition in the 1840s, utilizing Full Color Paperback, 8 x 11 important documents recently discovered in the Hudson’s ISBN: 978-0-9768113-9-1 Bay Company Archives. Archibald Pelton, Mad Man of the Mountains To order visit our website at by Larry E. Morris www.mmmuseum.com The tragic tale of a young mountaineer and contemporary of or call 307-367-4101 or 1-877-686-6266 Andrew Henry, Manuel Lisa, and Wilson Price Hunt. MUSEUM of the MOUNTAIN MAN Sublette County Historical Society-A Foundation P.O. Box 909, 700 E. Hennick St., Pinedale, Wyoming 82941 tel 307-367-4101 fax 307-367-6768 [email protected] www.mmmuseum.com Contents A Message from the President 3 L & C Roundup 5 Letters 6 After the Deluge: Flood Basalts, Glacial Torrents, 8 and Lewis and Clark’s “Swelling, boiling & whorling” River Route to the Pacific Grande Ronde Basalt outcrop, p. 8 Part 2: The Columbia Gorge By John W. Jengo Five Mysteries from William Clark’s 1798 24 Visit to New Orleans By Jo Ann Trogdon Reviews: Wind hard from the west, by Robert Heacock; 31 Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest, by Jack Nisbet Spanish silver dollar, p. 28 On the front cover: The “high projecting rock” of Crown Point on the western end of the Columbia Gorge. Photo by John W. Jengo. On the back cover: Latourell Falls in the Columbia Gorge. Photo by John W. Jengo. We Proceeded On welcomes submissions of articles, proposals, inquiries, and letters. Writer’s guidelines are available by request and can be found on our website (www.lewisandclark.org). Submissions may be sent to Robert Clark, WSU Press, P.O. Box 645910, Pullman, WA 99164-5910, or by email to [email protected]. The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 3434, Great Falls, MT 59403 406-454-1234 / 1-888-701-3434 Fax: 406-727-3158 www.lewisandclark.org Our mission: As Keepers of the Story ~ November 2015 • Volume 41, Number 4 Stewards of the Trail, the Lewis and Clark Membership Information Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc. We Proceeded On is the official publication Membership in the Lewis and Clark Trail provides national leadership in of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Founda- Heritage Foundation, Inc. is open to the maintaining the integrity of the Trail tion, Inc. Its name derives from a phrase that public. Information and applications are and its story through stewardship, appears repeatedly in the collective journals of available by writing Membership Coordina- scholarship, education, partnership the expedition. © 2015 tor, Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Founda- and cultural inclusiveness. E. G. Chuinard, M.D., tion, P. O. Box 3434, Great Falls, MT 59403 Founder, We Proceeded On or on our website, www.lewisandclark.org. Officers ISSN 02275-6706 We Proceeded On, the quarterly journal of President Editor the Foundation, is mailed to current mem- Steve Lee Robert A. Clark bers in February, May, August, and November. Clarkston, WA Washington State University Press Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted Vice-President Philippa Newfield Volunteer Proofreaders and indexed in Historical Abstracts and H. Carl Camp and Jerry Garrett America: History and Life. San Francisco, CA Annual Membership Categories: Immediate Past-President Publisher Margaret Gorski Washington State University Press Student: $30 Stevensville, MT Pullman, Washington Basic: $49 Basic 3-Year: $133 Secretary Editorial Advisory Board Barbara Kubik Family: $65 Wendy Raney, Chair Barbara Kubik Heritage: $100 Vancouver, WA Pullman, WA Vancouver, WA Explorer: $150 Treasurer Jay H. Buckley Glen Lindeman Jefferson: $250 John Toenyes Provo, UT Pullman, WA Discovery: $500 Great Falls, MT H. Carl Camp J.I. Merritt Lifetime: Directors at large Omaha, NE Pennington, NJ Steward: $995 Lynn Davis, Spirit Lake, IA Robert C. Carriker Robert Moore, Jr. Captain: $2,500 President: $5,000 Dick Fichtler, Florence, MT Spokane, WA St. Louis, MO Karen Goering, St. Louis, MO Carolyn Gilman Gary E. Moulton The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Founda- Ella Mae Howard, Miles City, MT Washington, DC Lincoln, NE tion, Inc. is a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation. Mark Nelezen, Oshkosh, WI James Holmberg Philippa Newfield A portion of your dues may be tax deductible. Jim Sayce, Seaview, WA Lousville, KY San Francisco, CA Donations are fully deductible. Clay Smith, Port Townsend, WA Kris Townsend, Spokane, WA Jerry Wilson, Versailles, IN Mark Weekley (ex-officio-NPS), Omaha, NE WE PROCEEDED ON Staff (Back issues, 1974–current) Lindy Hatcher, Executive Director Don Peterson, Administrative Assistant All back issues of our quarterly historical Shelly Kath, Library Technician Lora Helman, journal are available. Some of the older Bookkeeper Rebecca McClellan, Ad Sales Manager issues are copier reproductions. Orders We Proceeded On is published four times a year for a collection of all back issues receive in February, May, August, and November by a 30 percent discount. Order your miss- Washington State University Press in Pullman, Washington, for the Lewis and Clark Trail ing issues to complete your set. Call Heritage Foundation, 4201 Giant Springs Rd., 1-888-701-3434, mail your request to Great Falls, Montana 59405. Current issue: November 2015, volume 41, No. 4, ISSN P.O. Box 3434, Great Falls, MT 59403, 02275-6706 or order at [email protected]. Incorporated in 1969 under $10 originals or cds Missouri General Not-For-Profit Corporation act. IRS Exemption $4 shipping & handling Certificate No. 501(c)3, Identification No. 510187715. 2 We Proceeded On August 2015 President’s Message A Message from the President As I begin my year as president, I Montana, in 1989. would be remiss if I didn’t first offer I remember reading thanks and appreciation to the Kan- the exciting meet- sas City 2015 Annual Meeting com- ing program and mittee and volunteers for putting on feeling a bit appre- a great meeting in August. It was fun, hensive as I figured informative, and we experienced some the other attendees great trail sites in Missouri and Kan- would know much sas. We gained new friendships and more about Lewis connected with old friends. What a and Clark than I. great view we experienced at Kaw However, I had a wonderful time, and Clark interest, gifted me that Point with the Lewis and Clark Fife met new friends, and enjoyed the field membership. and Drum Corps in their red uniforms trips to Lemhi Pass and Helena (view- If I can rise to be your president against a backdrop of the Missouri and ing Charley Russell’s mural entitled thanks in part to a gift, please consider Kansas Rivers and the modern Kansas “Lewis and Clark Meeting the Flat- the importance of recruiting a new City skyline. heads at Ross’s Hole”). I discovered member or providing a gift member- I must also thank and give acco- it didn’t matter how much or little I ship to someone you know who would lades to Margaret Gorski, who has knew—I was always welcome in the appreciate our foundation and all that just completed two terms as presi- “Lewis and Clark family.” it does. Who knows, they could end dent. The foundation has moved for- Living in Boise, Idaho, the next up being president, too! ward during her tenure and chalked up year I helped the Idaho Chapter host Membership will be one of my ini- many accomplishments during those the 1990 annual meeting. I quickly tiatives during the next year. I believe two years. I have big “mockersins” to became involved with the foundation, we must continously recruit more fill! I look forward to her service on the being appointed to the Young Adults members into the foundation. As board of directors as past-president. Committee and then selected as presi- president, I will challenge the board For those who don’t know me, I dent of the Idaho Chapter. One thing of directors, committees, and chap- grew up in western Montana sur- led to another, and as I look back, I ters to recruit additional members. rounded by the Lewis and Clark trail. can claim membership at one time on Goals have been set.