Near Warsaw, KY[1]No known record exists of Lewis’s travel between Big Bone Lick and Louisville. We do know that he had left Big Bone Lick before Thomas Rodney arrived there on 10 October and that he arrived at … Continue reading On or near this date, Lewis leaves the landing below Big Bone Lick and proceeds towards Louisville and the Falls of the Ohio where William Clark is expecting him.
Ohio River below Cincinnati, Map 9
Cramer’s 1814 The Navigator [2]Zadok Cramer, The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers . . . (Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1814), 37–41. Lewis, or his … Continue reading
Young Island
Contemporary traveler, Thomas Rodney, described the Ohio River below Big Bone Lick:
At ¼ before 12 we passed a large creek on NW shore which falls in just at the uper end of the island bar. Here we took in the Major and Shields who had been walking on shore several miles. At 20 minutes after 12 we past the lower end of this island and the next reach varies to SW again. This is a young island, the land low and the trees but small.
—Thomas Rodney[3]11 October 1803. Dwight L. Smith and Ray Swick, ed., A Journey Through the West: Thomas Rodney’s 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997), … Continue reading
Notes
| ↑1 | No known record exists of Lewis’s travel between Big Bone Lick and Louisville. We do know that he had left Big Bone Lick before Thomas Rodney arrived there on 10 October and that he arrived at the Falls of the Ohio on 14 October. Using Thomas Rodney’s journal and Cramer’s 1802 river guide, The Navigator, one conjecture is that Lewis stopped for the night near Warsaw on or near this date. |
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| ↑2 | Zadok Cramer, The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers . . . (Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1814), 37–41. Lewis, or his pilot, likely carried the 1802 edition of The Navigator which does not have a map with this detail. |
| ↑3 | 11 October 1803. Dwight L. Smith and Ray Swick, ed., A Journey Through the West: Thomas Rodney’s 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997), 115. |
