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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 16, 2020
Caption: Navigating the Clearwater Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (top left) During their travels through this area in 1805 and 1806, Lewis and Clark carefully documented their route and recorded their observations. This map, drawn along with William Clark's journal entry for October 10, 1805, shows the confluence of the "Koos Koos kee" (Clearwater) and "Ki-moo-e-nem" (Snake) rivers.; (upper center) This view of the Clearwater River, taken in the 1890s, shows the mouth of the North Fork in the middle of the photograph. Across the river from the North Fork and less than one mile from here, is Canoe Camp where the Corps of Discovery cut, shaped and hollowed five large ponderosa pine trees using the chip-and-burn method of making canoes.; (bottom center) For centuries, the Nez Perce people (Nimiipuu) regularly traveled the Clearwater River's swift waters to fish, trade and socialize, the Nimiipuu were efficient canoe builders.
Submitted: November 7, 2020, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p548339
File Size: 3.407 Megabytes

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