Meriwether Lewis and his friend William Clark, leading the Corps of Discovery, clearly welcomed the sustaining presence of the Anchovy on their pioneering expedition. — Alice, the Anchovy Schoolmarm
March 25, 1806
The morning being disagreeably cold we remained and took breakfast. at 7 AM we set out along our rout along the South Coast of the river against the wind an a strong current, our progress was of course but slow. at noon we halted and dined. here some clatsops came to us in a canoe loaded with dryed anchovies, which they call Olthen', Wappetow and Sturgeon* . . . the wind in the eveing was very hard; at length late in the eveing encamped opposit to the place we had encamped on the 6th of November last.
