Quicksand River, Oregon, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)
Referenced In
History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark: To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean
by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark"“At the distance of three miles we reached the mouth of a river on the left, which seemed to lose its waters in a sandbar… But on attempting to wade across, we discovered that the bed was a very bad quicksand… We went up a mile and a half to examine this river…”"
History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark: To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean
by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark"which extends from near Quicksand river for seventy miles westward"
History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark: To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean
by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark"This shrub was first discovered at the entrance of Quicksand river: it grows so abundantly in the fertile valley of Colombia, and the islands, that the country is almost impenetrable: it retains its verdure late in summer."