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Haystack Butte and Maryhill, Washington.
Haystack Butte and Maryhill Museum, Washington, as seen from truck stop at Biggs Junction, Oregon. Interstate-84 is in the foreground.
Image taken September 29, 2002.
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Haystack Butte ...
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Haystack Butte, Washington, as seen from the Celilo area, Oregon.
View from road between Celilo and the Deschutes River.
Image taken May 24, 2005.
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Haystack Butte, Washington, as seen from Interstate 84, Oregon.
Haystack Butte as seen from Interstate-84, Oregon, with camera held on window frame of moving car.
Image taken September 26, 2003.
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Campsite of April 21, 1806 ...
Lewis and Clark and the majority of the men spent the night of April 21, 1806, on the Washington side of the Columbia River across from the lower tip of Miller Island and slightly downstream of the Deschutes River. In these passages Captain Lewis refers to the Deschutes the "Clark's River" and Captain Clark refers to it by the Indian name, the "To war nah hi ooks" River. The camp is shown on their route map [Map#77, Moulton, Vol.1] at the upstream end of an Indian village, near today's Wishram, Washington. Haystack Butte rises above.
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"... after dinner we proceeded on about four miles to a village of 9 mat lodges of the Enesher a little below the entrance of Clark's river and encamped; one of the canoes joined us the other not observing us halt continued on. ..."
[Lewis, April 21, 1806]
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"... a 4 P M loaded up & Set out the Canoes also proceed on about 3 miles opposit to the Mouth of Clarks river, and an Indian man who has attached himself to us ... he told us that as the day was far Spent we had better Camp at a village of 9 Lodges a little off the road opsd. the River C--- Clarks This river has a great falls above 2 forks on its West Side. we formed a Camp ..."
[Clark, April 21, 1806, first draft]
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"... after dinner we proceeded on about 4 Miles to a Village of 9 Mat Lodges of the Enesher, a little below the enterance of To war nah hi ooks river and encamped: one of the Canoes joined us, the other not haveing observed us halt continued on. ..."
[Clark, April 21, 1806]
Lewis and Clark's previous campsite was near Horsethief Butte. Their campsite of April 22, 1806 was across from the John Day River.
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Haystack Butte from the Deschutes River ...
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Haystack Butte, Washington, as seen from the Deschutes River, Oregon.
Image taken March 20, 2004.
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Campsite of Patrick Gass, April 21, 1806 ...
Patrick Gass and three other men did not make the river crossing and camped on the Oregon side of the Columbia, upstream of the mouth of the Deschutes River, closer to today's John Day Dam.
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"... At 10 o'clock we set out from the first narrows with 3 horses of our own and one we borrowed, and 2 canoes all loaded heavy. I went with three other men in the canoes, and had dome difficulty in passing the short narrows. About 3 in the afternoon we arrived at the great falls of Columbia [Celilo], where we met with Captain Clarke and the men that were with him. Here we got another horse; carried our canoes and baggage round the falls and halted for dinner. ... We halted here two hours and then proceeded on again. The party that went by land had to leave the river, and take out to the hill a part of the way. I crossed with my canoe to the south side where there is the best water, and passed a large rock island [Miller Island], opposite to which the Sho-sho-ne river [Deschutes River] flows in from the south. We went on till dark, and then run our small canoe among some willows, and laid down to sleep. ..."
[Gass, April 21, 1806]
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Views from the Haystack Butte Vicinity ...
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Lewis and Clark traversed the
slopes of the Washington side of the Columbia River
on their return up the Columbia in April 1806. Their campsite of April 21, 1806, was in the Haystack Butte vicinity, downstream of the Deschutes River.
On April 22, 1806, Captain Clark climbed a "high hill":
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"... dureing the time the front of the party was waiting for Cap Lewis, I assended a high hill from which I could plainly See the range of Mountains which runs South from Mt. Hood as far as I could See. I also discovered the top of Mt. Jefferson which is Covered with Snow and is S 10o W. Mt. Hood is S. 30o W. the range of mountains are Covered with timber and also Mt Hood to a sertain hite. The range of Mountains has Snow on them. I also discovered some timbered land in a S. derection from me, Short of the mountains.
Clarks river which mouthes imedeately opposit to me forks at about 18 or 20 miles, the West fork runs to the Mt Hood and the main branch Runs from S.E. ..."
[Clark, April 22, 1806]
Clarks river is the Deschutes River, and the "range of Mountains" is the Cascade Range.
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Mouth of the Deschutes River, Oregon.
View from Washington State Highway 14. Miller Island is tip in lower left corner.
Image taken May 24, 2005.
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Celilo area and Mount Hood, Oregon.
From Washington State Highway 14, near Haystack Butte, looking down on the Oregon Trunk Line Railroad, Celilo area. Mount Hood, Oregon, shows in the notch of the Fairbanks Water Gap.
Image taken May 24, 2005.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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Clark, April 21, 1806 ...
at 12 oClock the advance of the party from below arived [Lewis and Clark each were traveling in different groups as Clark was looking to purchase horses] and Soon after the Canoes all things were taken above the falls & 2 Canoes, turned out the horss and Cooked & Eat 2 dogs which we purchased of the nativs,
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a 4 P M loaded up & Set out the Cnoes also proceed on about 3 miles opposit to the Mouth of Clarks river [Deschutes River] , and an Indian man who has attached himself to us and who has lent us a horse to pack & lies near the Rocky mountains. he told us that as the day was far Spent we had better Camp at a village of 9 Lodges a little off the road opsd. the River C— Clarks [Deschutes River] This river has a great falls above 2 forks on its West Side. we formed a Camp [Haystack Butte area]
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Lewis, April 21, 1806 ...
we took breakfast and departed a few minutes after 10 OClock. having nine horses loaded and one which Bratton rode not being able as yet to march; the two canoes I had dispatched early this morning. at 1 P. M. I arrived at the Enesher Village where I found Capt Clark and party; he had not purchased a single horse.
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we soon made the portage with our canoes and baggage and halted about 1/2 a mile above the Village where we graized our horses and took dinner on some dogs which we purchased of these people. after dinner we proceeded on about four miles to a village of 9 mat lodges of the Enesher a little below the entrance of Clark's river [Deschutes River] and encamped [Haystack Butte area]; one of the canoes joined us the other not observing us halt continued on.
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