LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION – National Intelligencer, and Washington Advertiser . Washington: Samuel Harrison Smith, 12 July 1805.
LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION – National Intelligencer, and Washington Advertiser . Washington: Samuel Harrison Smith, 12 July 1805. A very early and front-page report from the Corps of Discovery in the national paper: pre-dating by almost 2 weeks the printing of Clark’s letter to W.H. Harrison which has been called the first substantive report. This account derives from William Clark’s letter to his brother Jonathan Clark, in Louisville, Kentucky; it is stated to have been first printed in the Kentucky Gazette but that issue is untraceable. For years, the “only known existing copy of this account appeared in the Boston Centinel of July 13, 1805” (Cutright History of the Lewis and Clark Journals p.173 ) but this paper is a day earlier and in excellent condition. It covers Lewis and Clark’s ascent of the Missouri to Fort Mandan including descriptions of terrain, Indian tribes, and animals: “Buffaloes are said [by Clark] to be in great numbers, and of large size….” Four pages, folio (525 x 334mm).
LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION – National Intelligencer, and Washington Advertiser . Washington: Samuel Harrison Smith, 12 July 1805.
LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION – National Intelligencer, and Washington Advertiser . Washington: Samuel Harrison Smith, 12 July 1805. A very early and front-page report from the Corps of Discovery in the national paper: pre-dating by almost 2 weeks the printing of Clark’s letter to W.H. Harrison which has been called the first substantive report. This account derives from William Clark’s letter to his brother Jonathan Clark, in Louisville, Kentucky; it is stated to have been first printed in the Kentucky Gazette but that issue is untraceable. For years, the “only known existing copy of this account appeared in the Boston Centinel of July 13, 1805” (Cutright History of the Lewis and Clark Journals p.173 ) but this paper is a day earlier and in excellent condition. It covers Lewis and Clark’s ascent of the Missouri to Fort Mandan including descriptions of terrain, Indian tribes, and animals: “Buffaloes are said [by Clark] to be in great numbers, and of large size….” Four pages, folio (525 x 334mm).
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