John Ordway
Auteur de The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol. 9: John Ordway and Charles Floyd
Œuvres de John Ordway
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol. 9: John Ordway and Charles Floyd (1996) 29 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Ordway, John
- Date de naissance
- c. 1775
- Date de décès
- c. 1817
- Sexe
- male
- Lieux de résidence
- Hebron, New Hampshire, USA
- Professions
- soldier
explorer - Relations
- Lewis, Meriwether (colleague|commanding officer)
Floyd, Charles (colleague)
Gass, Patrick (colleague) - Organisations
- United States Army
Corps of Discovery
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 49
- Popularité
- #320,875
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 4
First, he is a consistent journalist. He wrote every day, at least a full paragraph. Some entries are much longer. Moulton's notes are a great help in offering clarifying explanations or geographic references to Ordway's explanations.
Ordway is also often willing to take the time to provide more than a cursory entry. He shares his observations in an interesting, descriptive prose. I was particularly impressed by his observations of the weather, such as the cold and snow the Corps encountered in the Three Rivers region, even though it was August.
Floyd is a bit less fun. His entries tended to be much briefer, and the spelling oddities were a bit harder to decode. Some of the entries are longer and descriptive, but many are only a few sentences.… (plus d'informations)