Lewis+and+Clark+Adventure+Through+the+Woods!


 * Questions For Game Show

ang077,Mullen, ksports924, and RoamingGnome are going to create an adventure story about Lewis and Clark’s Expedition that:**

Will let people see how hard the winter of 1804-05 was for Lewis & Clark


 * My adventure story will solve the following problem:**

How Lewis & Clark got through the winter of 1804-05


 * My audience will experience my story through the eyes of:**

Themselves, as if they were really there being a part of it.


 * My adventure story will have the following common characteristics of an adventure story:**

Problems, solutions, struggle, survival


 * My adventure story will have the following key historical events:**

Cold winter of 1804-05 at Fort Mandan


 * My adventure story will have the following key historical characters:**

Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Patrick Gass, John Ordway, Joseph Whitehouse,


 * My adventure story will have the following key historically important concrete objects:**


 * My adventure story will make the audience feel the following emotions:**

Sympathetic, greatful,


 * My adventure story will be credible because I will support it with the following primary sources:**

[range&r1month=12&r1day=1&r1year=1804&r2month=02&r2day=29&r2year=1805&numpage=100&x=11&y=1My adventure story will be credible because I will support it with the following secondary sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expeditionhttp://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/idx_equ.htmlI will engage my audience by doing the following (this is something I have never done before):We will take them on a walk through the cross country trail and let them see how hard the winter was and how they lived through it.Hand this paper in after your presentation with your grade on the reverse side. Please support your decision with evidence from the week of research and week of preparation.[[http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wildnatureimages.com/3000%2520to%252010000/C6CT3534.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wildnatureimages.com/Fort%2520Clatsop%2520Canoe%2520Landing.htm&h=399&w=600&sz=143&hl=en&start=15&um=1&tbnid=FrLBjOZCqb2ZwM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=135&prev|http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wildnatureimages.com/3000%2520to%252010000/C6CT3534.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wildnatureimages.com/Fort%2520Clatsop%2520Canoe%2520Landing.htm&h=399&w=600&sz=143&hl=en&start=15&um=1&tbnid=FrLBjOZCqb2ZwM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=135&prev=]

[|Washburn, North Dakota]. Over the course of the winter the expedition enjoyed generally good relations with the Mandan Indian tribe who lived alongside the Fort. It was at Fort Mandan that Lewis and Clark came to employ a French-speaking, part-Indian fur trapper named [|Toussaint Charbonneau], whose young Shoshone Indian wife, [|Sacagawea], translated for the expedition among the Shoshone and Nez Perce. ||  ||
 * What did they eat? || during winter they huntered white hares, buffalo, wolves, and other wildlifemainly buffalo ||  ||
 * How cold was the wearther? || The weather was about 12 d below 0 and was 42 below freezing in places snow was 18 in. deep || 12-45 d below 0the weather was very harsh with winters going below 40 d below 0. ||
 * What did they do during winter? || They made their maps during winter. and learned newgeography which lay ahead from american idians in the area of the camp. ||  ||
 * What did they use for shelter? || In the winter of 1804–05, the party built [|Fort Mandan], near
 * What did they wear? ||  ||   ||
 * What did they bring ? || ==Mathematical Instruments:== * surveyor’s compass * hand compass * quadrants * telescope * thermometers * 2 sextants * set of plotting instruments * chronometer (needed to calculate longitude)==Camp Supplies:== * 150 yards of cloth to be oiled and sewn into tents and sheets
 * pliers
 * chisels
 * 30 steels for striking to make fire
 * handsaws
 * hatchets
 * whetstones
 * iron corn mill
 * two dozen tablespoons
 * mosquito curtains
 * 10 1/2 pounds of fishing hooks and fishing lines
 * 12 pounds of soap
 * 193 pounds of "portable soup" (a thick paste concocted by boiling down beef, eggs and vegetables)
 * three bushels of salt
 * writing paper, ink and crayons==Presents for Indians:== * 12 dozen pocket mirrors
 * 4,600 sewing needles
 * 144 small scissors
 * 10 pounds of sewing thread
 * silk ribbons
 * ivory combs
 * handkerchiefs
 * yards of bright-colored cloth
 * 130 rolls of tobacco
 * tomahawks that doubled as pipes
 * 288 knives
 * 8 brass kettles
 * vermilion face paint
 * 33 pounds of tiny beads of assorted colors==Clothing:== * 45 flannel shirts
 * coats
 * frocks
 * shoes
 * woolen pants
 * blankets
 * knapsacks
 * stockings ==Arms and Ammunition:==
 * 15 prototype Model 1803 muzzle-loading .54 caliber rifles
 * knives
 * 500 rifle flints
 * 420 pounds of sheet lead for bullets
 * 176 pounds of gunpowder packed in 52 lead canisters
 * 1 long-barreled rifle that fired its bullet with compressed air, rather than by flint, spark and powder==Medicine and Medical Supplies:==
 * 50 dozen Dr. Rush’s patented "Rush’s pills"
 * lancets
 * forceps
 * syringes
 * tourniquets
 * 1,300 doses of physic
 * 1,100 hundred doses of emetic
 * 3,500 doses of diaphoretic (sweat inducer)
 * other drugs for blistering, salivation and increased kidney output==Traveling Library:==
 * Barton’s Elements of Botany
 * Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz’s History of Louisiana
 * Richard Kirwan’s Elements of Mineralogy
 * A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical Astronomy
 * The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris
 * a four-volume dictionary
 * a two-volume edition of Linnaeus (the founder of the Latin classification of plants)
 * tables for finding longitude and latitude
 * map of the Great Bend of the Missouri River ||  ||

William Clark's uniform

Merriweather Lewis's uniform

Someone enlisted in the expedition's uniform

- fishhh. :] - blue border like :] - scooters for boat. :] - let them choose if they want a paddle, use wooden stick ? - make a game going back and forth the river
 * Ideas for river:**