Spring 1806
Dear Mr. Jefferson,

The journey was the Corps at its best. The journey was America at it's best. This journey has been to of my best years in my life. With only one fatality, I feel that the whole expedition went almost seamlessly. Even when we got stopped by the Tetons Sioux our clever members squirmed out of it, and through the hardships of the deadly Rockies, we pushed on. To the awestruck finish, the Pacific Ocean. I know I will never forget this historic journey. I think that describing this journey as the Corps at its best and America at its best is spot on. Meaning that the Corps could not have made it unless they came together and worked together and the America part meaning that the journey went against a lot of the prejudice policies back in Washington (a black man and an Indian women voted).

For all my hard work photos, and media. I believe I should receive the grade of an A-.

Lewis and Clark: The Columbia River Now

Lewis And Clark The Animated Expierence

January 1, 1806
The weather has been awful the last few days, and many of the men have caught colds. On the positive side we have finished our fort. Many Clatsop Indians have been here today to trade food.

September 18, 1805
Food is very scarce and we are all worried about how we will get over these mountains. We saw a horse today and one of the men quickly shot it. As we approached the camp of the Nez Perce we were greeted by boys, and then led to there camp where surprisingly there were no men.

September 13 1805
We have found a hot water basin. All the men are extremely happy to be able to soak there sore bodies in the soothing warm water.

September 11, 1805
Today has been a very hard day on the expedition. We have nearly freezed to death, nearly fallen off cliffs, and lost lots of supplies. Some of our horses did in fact fall of the cliff and I am suprised that more of them did not die.

June 13, 1805
All of us on the party with Captain Lewis are very excited for we have just discovered the falls. Soon we will send a messenger down the river to find Captain Clark and bring him and his crew here.

June 9, 1805
I am on the search party going up the left side of the river with Captain Lewis. While Captain Clark explores the right branch. All the men are aware of Captain Lewis' sickness, but now we notice Sacajawea is getting ill.

June 3, 1805
The past few days have been very interesting due to the fact that we have found a fork in the Missouri. All most all of our crew believe they should take the right branching river based on the fact that this side had the same muddy color and flowed in the right direction. The captains think differently however. They think that the left branch is the correct river because of its clearness of just comming out of the mountains. I am very suprised with the loyalty of the rest of the crew. All the men will follow the captains even though they disagree.

May 26, 1805
At dawn we finally begin to see the looming peeks of the mountains before us. This is a very exciting site, but also a very scary one to think that we have to cross those! Last night a savage buffalo besieged our camp. It it wern't for Seaman the captains would have bin killed, say some of the men. As well as almost killing, the buffalo caused alot of damage to our camp.

February 11, 1805
Much of the talk between the men are about Sacajawea going into labor. Although disliked at the beginning of the winter because the men though that she would just be extra weight to carry on the expedition, her popularity has increased a ton. I here it is a very slow and painful labor. Knowing that the labor was lasting such a long time a french trader living with the Mandans suggested feeding her rattlesnake rattle saying that it worked every time. Captain Lewis was desperate so he tried it and a few minutes later she gave birth. All the trouble started when the husband of Sacajawea started to demand outrageous things for payment on the expedition and Captain Clark asked them to leave. We all missed Sacajawea and her son a lot. Then the french man asked a man to go over and make negotiations with the Captains and shortly after they hired both of them back.

January 12, 1805
The new year has come and many of the crew are anxious to continue on with our expedition. To celebrate the new year we went over and danced the the Mandans. I began to notice that Captain Lewis never got our of the fort and always continued working on his notes for Jefferson. Even though the fort was comfortable it was still small and cramped. Food is very hard to find in the winter and sometimes we go to bed hungry. To trade with the Mandans for well needed food The Captains were giving medical care with state-of-the-art medicine.

Cameron Allen Randolph

November 3, 1804
We Have began building our winter fort. In the cold weather I fond it interesting that the Mandans let there horses come into there house's. A french man showed up in our fort talking to Captain Lewis about being a translator. Captain Lewis was not impressed and said he already had one. The french man said that he could speak fluent Shoshone, and that he also had a young Indian wife that could speak it and help us in cooking off the land and navigating. Captain Lewis agreed even though he would have much rather just had the Indian girl Sacajawea then the french man.

Cameron Allen Randolph

October 29, 1804
We are all worried about the winter coming and we are scrambling to get a fort built. There was a big Prairie fire a few days ago and many Indian people died thankfully none of us.

August 19, 1804
We are all very worried about Sgt. Floyd who is very ill. We all hope for the best but we all including himself thinks he will die. I saw a buffalo today and shot it and brought it back to eat it was delicious....

Cameron Allen Randolph

August 15, 1804
Captain Lewis told us today that we had just gone in a big 183/4 mile circle on the river when it was only 900 or so yards. Captain Clark is taking advantage of all the fish and caught 800 of them. I noticed Seaman did not like fish at all and saw that he was very happy when he caught a mouse to eat. Then all of a sudden Reed burst through the trees on the river bank followed by two men. Reeds punishment was two run a gauntlet 4 times with the men beating him with sticks. I herd one of the chiefs saying that it was a terrible punishment for Reed but then herd Lewis say that It was the least we could do to him for the crime.

Cameron Allen Randolph

August 11 1804

We are all concerned about Moses Reed who has not returned back to the ship from the Council Bluff. The captains think he has deserted and I agree with them. Captain Lewis was very angry at Seaman for scaring of a prairie wolf with pups earlier today that he was trying to catch, Lewis said that it was almost like Seaman was trying to protect her.

Cameron Allen Randolph

The Mandan Indian Village

August 2nd 1804
We are meeting with our first Indians tomorrow and we are all very excited. Captain Lewis has made a speech for the chiefs of the tribe explaining how the Spaniards and the French don’t own the land any more and aren’t there “fathers” that Thomas Jefferson was and he was the new person to trade with and ask for help or protection. We plan to give them a gift of a casket of gun powder, 50 balls, and a bottle of whiskey. Even though we hope everything will go right we are bringing loaded rifles just in case.

Wish us luck,

Cameron Allen Randolph

May 23, 1804

We are finally leaving for the Mandan Indian Village where we will spend the winter. Our ship is a long narrow keelboat boat full of barrels of whiskey, gunpowder, and food. Even with the keelboat’s 22 oars the boat is still very hard to maneuver up the great Missouri River. At this time only about an hour into our journey we have already been caught on 4 sandbars and have had to duck countless times to avoid be hit with a tree limb. Captain Lewis fell today when he was walking with his dog Seaman on a narrow path above the Missouri. I hear that without his knife that he used to stop his fall he would have been dead. Even with all these mishaps I still feel confident about this expedition and I hope that we will all return safely.

Until next time,

Cameron Allen Randolph

My Group

Heather is a great entertainer. She is a good friend and swimmer. She is good with children and wants to try new foods.

Morgan is a good violinist and she is good with animals. She likes to observe plants and cook.

Christina is energetic, has a positive attitude and is helpful. She wants to learn about all the unknown territory.

Micheal is a good companion and he is brave. He can also help anyone who needs it.

Curtis is a good hunter and marksman. He is also a great musician, and craftsman.

Harrison is a good sketcher and he can document the journey west. He also is a good cook.

Sophie is a great fisher in any weather. And she will amaze us with her outstanding fashion.

Chris will be our strategist, dancer and he is very brave.

Joe is great at playing with children, a good motivator, and he is very fast.

Sam will be our musician, builder, and journalist. Sam wants to find lost civilizations.

Sarah will be another musician playing the guitar. She will also be a good fisher, drawer sailer and a good companion. She hopes to discover new animals, people, and music.

Dear Captin John

Dear Captain John,

I think that I would an excellent member of this trip because of my navigating skills cooking skills, and then my sense of humor. I show my navigating skills when I pilot our boat to the islands. I make very good pancakes every weekend, and I can make just about everybody laugh.

I want to discover and see the Pacific Ocean, look at all the western animals and trek through the California wildflowers. I would like to bring home some wildflowers and maybe some interesting rocks.

Thank You for considering me,

Cameron Allen Randolph

Introduction

Dear Captain John,