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Photographer: Michael Haynes
Taken: undated
Caption:
Image on The Corps of Discovery in the Jefferson City Area Marker | Additional Description: [Caption reads] With Sgt. John Ordway at the helm, the keelboat was steered to close to an overhanging sycamore tree that caught the mast and broke it. Clark named a nearby creek, today's Gray's Creek, "Mast Creek" in recognition of the mishap.
Submitted: January 5, 2013, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p230632
File Size: 0.082 Megabytes
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