... this journey was extremely likely. May 1804 the Corps of Discovery started their journey. Following the Missouri River north, they began their journey with a keelboat. It measured fifty-five ft. long, eight ft. wide in the middle and four ft. wide at each end. It had a cabin at one end and a mast in case they encountered a favorable wind. They also had two pirogues, which are ... dugout canoes, and two horses, which would be used mostly by the hunters. Traveling against the current of the river, their progress was slow because of shallow waters. They paddled the boat when possible. Howe...

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... their own spirits, and the Chinook people needed to live with those natural spirits. (Chinook) In the past, the Chinook loved to tell stories. The stories often related to nature, traditions, and history. Below is one legendary story describing how the warm south wind and Chinook Indians came from. The story was called "the legend of the Chinook Indians." According to the Chinook, they believed this ... in their war canoes cautiously skirted the shores near the lower end of Chinook, they were unmindful of the enemy who were watching every movement from the thick underbrush near the bea...

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