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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • , they would receive ten horses plus still more guns. The party would wait for the guides (if any) at some
  • in return for two guns. The captains knew them—a brother of Cut Nose and two braves "of good character
  • the layover Shields repaired all the guns. The five Nez Percés and the American soldiers ran footraces
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • guns today), looked like a long-barreled Kentucky rifle, it was activated by air pumped under pressure
  • part on the rifles the men carried. He ordered fifteen guns for fifteen men, together with powder horns
  • for himself, tools and gun flints, and articles for the Indians they would meet. Though the last-named items
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • , and Clark thought he knew the reason. In spite of high winds that filled the air with sand, Meriwether had
  • of the wild-rice lakes of Minnesota, a principal source of food. On at least obtaining guns from the French
  • . As it returned, packed tight with Indians, the swivel gun on the bow of the keelboat banged out two salutes
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • , and Clark thought he knew the reason. In spite of high winds that filled the air with sand, Meriwether had
  • of the wild-rice lakes of Minnesota, a principal source of food. On at least obtaining guns from the French
  • . As it returned, packed tight with Indians, the swivel gun on the bow of the keelboat banged out two salutes
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • in the southern sky. One night the moon wore halos and bars. Moisture in the air occasionally froze
  • medicine bundle for strength. Apparently the coupling took place in the open air, in the dead of winter
  • considered to possess great wisdom, for how else could they create such wonders as guns, magnifying glasses
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • topped with a canvas awning. The swivel guns boomed; the enlisted men paraded. To the tune
  • . Cold air on wet feet during the rest of the journey resulted in frostbite for some. But, wrote Sergeant
  • and your horses with our dried meat and leather and with guns and brass kettles and cloth we obtain from
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • the "exorbitant" price of two dollars for his and his animals' services. Another obstacle was fog. At night, air
  • in a thermometer, stayed in the low seventies. "When the air becomes most cool," he noted in his journal, "which
  • , and stowage in casks and supposedly waterproof bags. Rusty guns, tomahawks, and trade knives had to be oiled
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • swivel gun was cached with the white pirogue near the Great Falls of the Missouri. How did he happen
  • a small medal as a reward. The clearing of the air was needed. The baggage still had to be lugged from
  • of this teeming stretch of the Columbia was superb. A variety of flowers bloomed in April. The air near The Dalles
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • gun, toward the tree under which he had planned to camp. The bear's step quickened. Switching
  • . The water was clutching at his waist before he was able to pull himself up beside the others, minus the gun
  • interfered with the work of the boatwrights. Whenever the air was still, mosquitoes swarmed unendurably
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • have heard the guns of their counterparts. Although the Corps's journalists do not speculate
  • they be on the river, before the daily discharge of our guns, which was necessary in procuring subsistence
  • of friendship and finally setting aside his gun so that he could hold out tempting gifts, Lewis advanced toward
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • meager for the want of food. . . . `If we had guns, we could then live in the country of buffaloe and eat
  • by firing a set of volleys. The salute would impress his people and make them aware of the power of guns
  • , "to let the world go as it may." Soon the Indians were asking for guns and ammunition as well
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • into the keelboat's two swivel guns. As the black mouths swung toward the group several Indians strung their bows
  • and the swivel guns, let their arrows drop back into their quivers and drifted cautiously away. The three chiefs
  • and firing their guns to awaken any sleepers in town, the men ran across the terrace to the water's edge
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  • disturbed the men's sleep that they would jump up with shouts of rage and fire guns to scare the beasts away
  • the swivel gun that had once been mounted on the keelboat but had proved unsuited to the white pirogue. He
  • to future traders. After ordering the men to check their guns, on they went to the Indians' towns
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  • soldiers they had picked up later had brought with them. Clark gave experimental twists to the swivel guns
  • , he suffered an embarrassment of his own. He had a good day with his gun—one fat bear and two deer
  • , he crouched for awhile in the smudge he had built and then fired his gun to let anyone in hearing
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  • into the river. Instantly the Indians across the way, who never before had heard a gun, fled in panic
  • the expedition's most valuable "papers Guns & amunition" by land while the dugouts took on the "very bad place
  • the widening river or in clearings on the shore. The natives carried guns, swords, sailors' clothing, copper
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  • the bear toward the shooter. Two men, hotly pursued, flung guns and shot pouches aside, and jumped over
  • that the bull had broken, during its climb across the pirogue, the stock of one of the swivel guns, part
  • soaking the elkskins they were taking to camp and almost losing their guns, they abandoned the effort
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • "treacherously seized on & made themselves masters of all our Guns—in which Situation we engaged them with our
  • Knives & our Pistol recovered our guns & killed two of them & put the others to flight, pursued them
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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Dearborn, more than the fifteen Lewis had bought guns and shirts for at Harpers Ferry. Evidently he had
  • them in canoes by British-Canadian traders, who seldom used horses. Northern guns for southern horses
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