This essay examines their canoeing as well as their canoes.

Pirogue boat lewis and clark. The captains revealed more details in their Detachment Orders of May. It was 55 feet long and 8 feet wide with a 3- to 4-foot draft. The Dugout Canoes of Lewis and Clark A mythology of primitive canoes heavy and crude and of primitive canoeing has gradually taken hold in Lewis and Clark scholarship and is here revised.

Because the pirogues were good in shallow water moved quickly and were good for fishing. 2 June 1993 6887. Note the rudder on the rear of the red pirogue.

C the so-called white pirogue manned by soldiers. Charles Missouri recreate the original Lewis Clark Expedition during the 2003-2006 Bicentennial but continue to traverse the Missouri Ohio and Mississippi Rivers making appearances throughout the year. Drawings safeguarded in the Smithsonian in Washington DC and references from the Journals were used in the authentic reconstruction of the boats.

In staying historically accurate the re-enactors white pirogue replica weighs in at about the same weight and like the original that Lewis and Clark used it will displace only 8 inches of water when it is empty. Not only did the Keelboat pirogues and Lewis Clark Discovery Expedition of St. 1 The expeditions two pirogues were probably made from planking while its dugout canoes were hewed from logs.

Until the Corps switched over to the canoes when they got closer to the rapidsThe Red. Arlen Large The Rocky Boat Ride of Lewis Clark We Proceeded On Vol. Lewis used the terms pirogue and canoe interchangeably when referring to the expeditions two pirogues.

Like the keelboat the pirogue saved the time and the energy of the men because they did not have to walk. The Boat House houses the one-of-a-kind replica Keelboat and two pirogues that retrace the travels of the original Lewis Clark Expedition. A pirogue is a wooden boat often in the shape of a canoe.