An accomplished carpenter and boat builder, Patrick Gass proved to
be an invaluable and well-liked member of the Lewis and Clark
expedition. Promoted to sergeant after the death of Charles Floyd,
Gass was almost certainly responsible for supervising the building
of Forts Mandan and Clatsop. His records of those forts and of the
earth lodges of the Mandans and Hidatsas are particularly detailed
and useful. Gass was the last survivor of the Corps of Discovery,
living until 1870--long enough to see trains cross a continent that
he had helped open. His engaging and detailed journal became the
first published account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Gass's
journal joins the celebrated Nebraska edition of the complete
journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition, which feature a wide
range of new scholarship dealing with all aspects of the expedition
from geography to Indian cultures and languages to plants and
animals.
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