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Wilson P. Hunt February 11, 1812 Campsite
Historic Campsite
in
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
,
Gifford Pinchot NF
,
Cascade Range
near
North Bonneville
,
WA
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The Astorians began to canoe the Columbia again, but were soon forced to portage either the left or right bank by the “Middle Cascades” and “Lower Cascades” of “The Cascades of the Columbia River’’ section near today’s Bonneville Dam. After they completed their portage, they camped somewhere near or below Strawberry/Hamilton Island and above the Sandy River.
As a historical note on the the length of rapids that Lewis and Clark once called called “The Great Shoot or Shute” it was subsequently broken into three sections, the “Upper Cascades”, “Middle Cascades”, and “Lower Cascades”. Today’s Bonneville Lock and Dam have regulated the rapids to bygone footnotes (Hunt 1821; Irving 1836; Rollins 1935, 307, 327 note 280-84; The Columbia River A Photographic Journey).
Hunt recorded in his diary:
On the 11th rapids covering space of miles forced us again to land our canoes. Finally about eight miles [according to (Rollins 1935) probably 4.5 miles] from the great rapids we encountered the last of them. Below this the river spreads to its usual width, which is about three-quarters of a mile wide. The hills diminish in size and retreat from the river banks. The intervening space is covered with pine, oak, ash, cottonwood, maple, hazel, and willow trees. (12 miles) (Hunt 1821)
— Hunt
Irving wrote:
The current of the river, however, was in his favor; having made a portage at the grand rapid, … (1836, 2: 73)
— Irving
Attribution of Source Material
The preceding summary for the approximated February 11, 1812 Wilson P. Hunt Campsite location is used with thanks for the public domain sources of Hunt 1821 and Irving 1836. Additionally, appropriate parenthetical citations are used with thanks and credit in specific summary passages and quotes for sources that are not in the public domain Rollins 1935. Errors regarding unintended and improper copyright usage will be corrected immediately following notification.
Primary Sources
Hunt, Wilson P., and V.A. Malte-Brun.
Nouvelles annales des voyages
. v. 10. Paris: Bertrand, 1821. English translation available at Mountain Men and the Fur Trade AMM Virtual Research Center Project
http://www.mtmen.org/mtman/html/wphunt/index.html
.
Irving, Washington.
Astoria, Or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
. Vol. 2. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Astoria_Or_Anecdotes_of_an_Enterprise_Be/t6k-AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
.
Rollins, Phillip A., ed. 1935.
The Discovery of the Oregon Trail: Robert Stuart’s Narrative of His Overland Trip Eastward from Astoria in 1812-1813: Appendix A: Wilson Price Hunt’s Diary
. Bison Book Edition reprinted from the original 1935 edition by Edward Eberstadt and Sons. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
Further Research and Reading
Irving, Washington.
Astoria, Or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/oKk-AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
.
Illustrations and Maps
Chittenden, Hiram Martin. “Map of the Trans-Mississippi of the United States during the Period of the American Fur Trade as Conducted from St. Louis between the Years 1807 and 1843.” Image. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, 1902.
https://lccn.loc.gov/99446195
(accessed February 25, 2022).
Clark, William. “Clark’s Columbia River Maps.” Discover Lewis & Clark, April 9, 2021.
https://lewis-clark.org/sciences/geography/clarks-maps/clarks-columbia-river-maps/
(accessed April 15, 2022).
Kmusser. “Columbia River Watershed with the Columbia River Highlighted.” April 7, 2008. self-made, based on USGS and Digital Chart of the World data.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Columbiarivermap.png
. (accessed March 31, 2022)
The Columbia River A Photographic Journey. “The Columbia River - ‘Cascade Rapids’ and the ‘Lower Falls of the Columbia,’” September 2016.
http://columbiariverimages.com/Regions/Places/cascade_rapids.html
. (accessed April 16, 2022)
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