Introduction [Download PDF]
The Corps of Discovery’s Journey through the Pacific Northwest in the fall of 1805 and again in the spring of 1806 was a journey through many confluences. Their journey down the Clearwater, Snake, and Columbia rivers took them past confluences of people and cultures, rivers, flora and fauna, and geology...

Kanaka Village [Download PDF]
In 1824, the Hudson’s Bay Company established Fort Vancouver on the north bank of the Columbia River, near present-day Vancouver, Washington.

George Simpson, the company’s governor for all of North America, initially saw Fort Vancouver as just one of the company’s many fur-trading posts in a long string of such posts that spilled across the northern landscape...

Ocian in View [Download PDF]
Canoeing cautiously down the Columbia River on a foggy November morning in 1805, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and the 31 members of the Corps of Discovery entered the broad estuary of the Columbia River. It was a stormy, wind-tossed, watery confluence–of the sea

and the river, of a vast international network of exploration, and of cultural place names–Chinookan, European, and the United States...

The Mouth of the Sandy River [Download PDF]
On November 3, 1805, the Corps of Discovery arrived at an important confluence, that of the Columbia and Sandy rivers. In their journals, the described the “handsom” river and the “butifull” countryside, the mysterious “quick sand” at the mouth of the Sandy River, and the plant, animal and bird life they saw...

Prairie Crossing [Download PDF]
In Washington state, a highway overpass becomes an experience. By Clair Enlow. Landscape Architecture, February 2009.

Shape of Memory [Download PDF]
As Maya Lin creates six landscape installations retelling the Lewis and Clark story from the perspective of Columbia River tribes, the legacy she charts is partly the region’s, and partly her own. By Carmela Raymond. Portland Monthly, November 2007.

A Meeting of Minds [Download PDF]
Dreaming the impossible dream, Native peoples and a renowned artist form a different Corps of Discovery. By Paula Bock. Pacific Northwest, June 12, 2005.