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- By merely browsing through the expedition’s journals, one notices that William Clark was, as historian Donald Jackson has said, “a creative speller” and “a versatile capitalizer.”
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By merely browsing through the expedition’s journals, one notices that William Clark was, as historian Donald Jackson has said, “a creative speller” and “a versatile capitalizer.” His punctuation was haphazard, too, and his syntax sometimes baffling. There are several explanations for these foibles.
William Clark. William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. [1] A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Missouri. Along with Meriwether Lewis, Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 ...
William Clark exhibited a special talent for describing the landscape and developed proficiencies as a draftsman, cartographer, and land surveyor. His inadequacies as a speller are often cited, but his “wrighting,” while not always florid, was generally clear and concise.
William Clark (born August 1, 1770, Caroline county, Virginia [U.S.]—died September 1, 1838, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) was an American frontiersman who won fame as an explorer by sharing with Meriwether Lewis the leadership of their epic expedition to the Pacific Northwest (1804–06).
- Jay H. Buckley
William Clark and the Shaping of the West. In a deeply researched, splendidly written biography (a part of which appeared in Smithsonian), William Clark and the Shaping of the West, Landon Y ...
While he never called himself a writer or an artist, Clark nonetheless drew maps, produced books, drafted reports, surveyed landscapes, and wrote journals that made sense of the West for a new nation fascinated by the region's potential but also fearful of its dangers.
Apr 2, 2014 · History & Culture. William Clark was half of the exploration team Lewis and Clark, who in the early 1800s explored and mapped the lands west of the Mississippi River. Their journey was better...
