Recognizing Oregon’s Mount Hood from the accounts of British explorer Capt. George Vancouver, Lewis and Clark were back on the map. They had defied the odds, defied death, and, with Native American assistance, emerged from the western edge of the uncharted territory. Downriver they would be more subtly reminded that they were on the right track. Native peoples on the banks of the Columbia River wore seashells in their pierced noses—and scarlet and blue robes that could only have come from Pacific trading ships.