If you have wondered how the stories in the Lewis and Clark Journals relate to any particular place, the Key Guides are the answer. For the first time, where they camped, and what journal entries refer to these campsites, are made accessible.
Rollover an area of the map, or choose a region name from the left to see the list of historic campsites in that area. For an explanation of the historic campsites list see How to use the Key Guide.
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The historic campsites table supplies both volume and page number references for the print journals and dates of occupancy for searching the online journals. There are 573 campsite locations; 1,891 print journal references; and occupancy dates for searching the Online Journals.
To find a campsite, search the table for the name of the county or a nearby town. Or you can look at topological maps showing numbered campsite locations. The maps are at the beginning of book sections for Regions 1-9. To see an example of a topological map showing campsite numbers in eastern Montana, go to Google Search Inside the Book for page 131 of Lewis and Clark Road Trips.
The key guide campsite numbers are based on geography not on a timeline. The unique campsite numbers refer to geographical locations, and show all dates of occupancy. Fifty places were used more than once.
Geography: The Historic Campsites Table provides the key to discovering all the journal entries relating to any given location. Dates of occupancy allow the reader to consult the Online Journals, or the abridged one volume edition The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery. Volume and page number references allow the reader to consult all nine volumes of journals written by the six individual journal keepers.
Timeline: The Online Journals are based on a timeline. Under each date (from August 30, 1803 to September 23, 1806) all the journal writer's entries are grouped together. The drawback of this system is that a reader will have to search through the entire Online Journals to discover whether a given location was used only one time or more than once (on side trips or on the return journey).
The primary location data is based on decades of research and exploration by Bob Bergantino, a professor at Montana Tech. Cross referencing to the journals and collating the dated entries by geographical location was done by Henry Gale.
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