Author's Article to be Published in We Proceeded On
August 28, 2003
The author's article on how the Missouri River changed between the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition and the end of the 19th century will be published in We Proceeded On, the publication of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation.
Between the time that the Corps of Discovery paddled and sailed along the Missouri River from 1804 to 1806 and the end of the steamboat era in the 1880s, a shifting climate changed the river's shape. It altered from a sinuous, relatively coherent channel into a more fractured, or 'braided' river slightly shorter in length.
What does this mean? The answer is uncertain, but the information implies that steamboats had a more difficult time navigating the muddy Missouri than they would have had a half century earlier.
Information from a 1970 Iowa Geological Survey study concluded that:
“Between 1804 and the late 1800s the regime of the Missouri River, particularly north of the Platte River, changed radically from a meandering stream, with a single sinuous channel, to a semi-braided stream with numerous multi-channel reaches."
Would the condition of the latter river have posed an insurmountable difficult for the Corps of Discovery to navigate? Again, the answer is unknown. Considering the team's resilience and determination, however, it's unlikely to have stopped their progress. The group was not only experienced, but appears to have been unusually optimistic.
As William Clark wrote in his journal on June 15, 1805, before reaching the Great Falls in Montana: “the men in the water from morning untill night hauling the cord & boats walking on sharp rocks and round slippery stones which alternatively cut their feet & throw them down, notwith standing all this difficuelty they go with great chearfulness…”
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