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    Up the Missouri River with Lewis and Clark: From Camp Dubois to the Bad River
    Up the Missouri River with Lewis and Clark: From Camp Dubois to the Bad River
    Up the Missouri River with Lewis and Clark: From Camp Dubois to the Bad River
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    Up the Missouri River with Lewis and Clark: From Camp Dubois to the Bad River

    By Bill Markley

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    Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery expedition conjures up images of high adventure. Up the Missouri River with Lewis and Clark tells of the beginning stages of the United States' first overland expedition to the Pacific Ocean. The men had to contend with shifting sandbars, treacherous currents, submerged trees, mosquitoes, rattlesnakes, wicked weather, disease, and unpredictable new people. Meet the men of the expedition-deserters, drunks, sergeants, and hunters. See how the first four months of their journey transforms a loose group of individuals into Clark's Band of Brothers.

    "Bill Markley has a wonderful talent for writing nonfiction with just a twist of humor. Though he takes his facts from the journals of Lewis, Clark, and other expedition members, his own commentary emerges."-Pat Decker Nipper, Author of Love on the Lewis and Clark Trail

    "You will enjoy reading Bill Markley's description of Lewis & Clark's expedition. He knows the stories, and shares with us a clear view of the expedition's journey. His book helps his readers better understand the Corps of Discovery's many and diverse encounters on the Missouri River."-Bill Stevens, President, Encounters On the Prairie, Central South Dakota Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 12, 2005
    ISBN9780595816675
    Up the Missouri River with Lewis and Clark: From Camp Dubois to the Bad River
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    Bill Markley

    Bill Markley was an extra in Dances With Wolves, Son of the Morning Star, Far and Away, Gettysburg, and Crazy Horse. His hobbies include: writing, reading, reenacting, hiking, and camping. He and his wife, Liz, have been married over twenty years and have two children, Becky and Christopher.

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      Up the Missouri River with Lewis and Clark - Bill Markley

      Copyright © 2005 by Bill Markley

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Contents

      List of Illustrations

      Foreword

      Preface

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction—If It Wasn’t For Haiti

      1   May 14-June 26, 1804

      2   June 26-July 8, 1804

      3   July 9-22, 1804

      4   July 23-August 5, 1804

      5   August 6-19, 1804

      6   August 20-September 6, 1804

      7   September 7-23, 1804

      8   September 24-28, 1804

      9   In The Wake Of Lewis And Clark

      Bibliography

      About The Author

      Dedicated to all those who seek reconciliation among all the peoples of the United States of America.

      We proceeded on.

      Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery Sergeants used this phrase throughout their journals.

      List of Illustrations

      Corps of Discovery route from Camp Dubois to Vermillion

      The keelboat on the Missouri River

      The red pirogue on the Missouri River

      Well-armed Corps members

      The red pirogue proceeds upriver

      First encounters

      Corps of Discovery route from Vermillion to Pierre/Ft. Pierre

      A hike up Spirit Mound

      Meeting with the Yankton Tribe

      Transporting the Brule chiefs

      Clark and keelboat

      Making friends

      Foreword

      Most of the books that have been written about the Lewis and Clark expedition—the Corps of Discovery, as they called themselves—discuss the trip from Montana onward to the Pacific. This segment might be more romantic than the earlier months of their adventure, the months where the captains were forced to punish some of their men in order to form a cohesive team that would obey orders without question. It’s disturbing to hear about the courts martial of two privates who got drunk on the reserve supply of whiskey and were given lashes on their bare backs, or of a private who was forced to run the gauntlet for going AWOL. The captains were more compassionate in dealing with the private who went to sleep on duty, an infraction that could carry a death sentence. They administered 400 lashes instead, spread over four days.

      It’s easier to think of these men as dedicated adventurers, ready to follow orders from the start, placing themselves above human frailties. And it’s much easier to think of the captains as benevolent and understanding, rather than strict masters who literally had to whip their men into shape.

      The early part of the Corps’ progress is also more burdensome to describe. Pulling a heavy keelboat against the current of the muddy Missouri is much less interesting than finding Sacajawea’s long-lost Shoshone brother and borrowing horses to cross the mountains. Furthermore, crossing the Bitterroot Mountains was difficult, but it took only days. Pulling, rowing, and occasionally sailing up the Missouri took months. The sheer tedium keeps many writers from tackling this part of the expedition.

      Bill Markley is not afraid to write about this part of the journey from the point of view of a resident of South Dakota and he does it well. We can suffer along with the men who get boils from the muddy river, men who become lost and are wary of Indians they have yet to meet. We read about stray animals that wander into camp, some kept, some not. We read about the death of Sergeant Floyd, who most writers dismiss as amazingly, the only death on the expedition, and the subsequent silence and sadness of his grieving friends. The election of Patrick Gass to take Sergeant Floyd’s place is described, as is the discovery of many new types of animals.

      As the Corps travels westward, they encounter all types of weather as well as different tribes of Indians and their different attitudes toward the white men. All manner of insects plague them, the mosquitoes being especially troublesome. Clark complains about them constantly in his journal.

      Read this account of the Corps of Discovery as they begin their two-year, four-month trip to the Pacific and you will get a better feel for the forming of a cohesive group. They would suffer many tribulations and share many conquests in the months and years ahead of them but it was their first months together that made them ready for the challenge.

      Pat Decker Nipper

      Author of Love on the Lewis and Clark Trail

      Preface

      The two hundredth anniversary of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery expedition sparked a renewed interest in the expedition and the people, places, and things the Corps of Discovery encountered as it traveled from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back. People have written volumes of material on the expedition, concentrating on its stay with the Mandan Tribe, Sacajawea, the Native American woman

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