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December 7, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • we could not land untill we turned a point in a bay where we halted and cooked a young Deer which the hunters had killed the other day.    the men who had been out to take care of the meat joined us with 4 Elk hides but no meat    the distance so great and the weather so bad that they brought no meat.
  • December 7, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
January 5, 1806 - Clark, William
  • those men also informed us that the Salt makers with their assistance had erected a Comfortable Camp, had killed an Elk and Several Deer and Secured a good Stock of Meat; they Commenced the makeing of Salt and found that they Could make from 3 quarts to a gallon a day; they brought with them a Specimen of the Salt, of about a gallon, we found it excellent white & fine, but not So Strong as the rock Salt or that made in Kentucky (Kentucky) or the Western parts of the U, States—    this Salt was a great treat to most of the party, haveing not had any Since the 20th ulto.   
  • January 5, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 2, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • clear & pleasant    in the evening 3 of the hunters came in    had killed two Deer.    30 odd Savages Camped with us men women & children.
  • April 2, 1806
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  • Ordway, John
April 14, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • Pryor (Pryor, Nathaniel Hale) & men returned with Drewyer (Drouillard, George) & the two Fields (Field, Joseph and Reubin)    they had killed 4 deer.    we then departed and proceed on verry well    passed Labuche River (Hood (Labiche's) River) on N.
  • April 14, 1806
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  • Ordway, John
April 15, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • Some hunters went out in the evening, and killed a deer. Otherwise "chapellel," and other spellings to the party, it is cous, Lomatium cous (Wats.)
  • April 15, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
April 13, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • to look again for the hunters    one of the hunters killed two Deer. Capt. Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) & party overtook us had purchased two Small canoes the price of which was 2 Small peaces of blue cloath and two Elk hides, & bought three dogs also.   
  • April 13, 1806
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  • Ordway, John
April 16, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • our hunters killed this day only two Deer 2 Squerrells of a new kind of any we ever Saw before. Capt. Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) had the Skins Stuffed & taken care of.   
  • April 16, 1806
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  • Ordway, John
June 21, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • Shields (Shields, John) had killed & brought in one deer— On Lolo Creek (Lolo (Collins's) Creek (Idaho)) , Clearwater County (Clearwater County, Idaho) , Idaho (Idaho) , where Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) party had camped on September 21, 1805.
  • June 21, 1806
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  • Ordway, John
August 6, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we had previously killed today 4 deer a buck Elk and a fat cow. in short game is so abundant and gentle that we kill it when we please. the Feildses (Field, Joseph and Reubin) went on ahead this evening and we did not overtake them. we saw several bear in the course of the day.— Poplar River (Poplar (Porcupine) River) , in Roosevelt County (Roosevelt County, Mont.) , Montana (Montana) ; see May 3, 1805.
  • August 6, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 19, 1806 - Clark, William
  • the hunters which was Sent out this morning killed 4 Elk & 12 deer near the river we came too and brought in the most of the flesh and proceeded on to a Sand on the N E Side and Encamped.   
  • August 19, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 21, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • these legings are made of the skins of the antelope and the Chemise usually of those of the large deer Bighorn and the smallest elk.—    They seldom wear the beads they possess about their necks at least I have never seen a grown person of either sex wear them on this part; some their children are seen with them in this way.   
  • these friends of theirs they say inhabit a good country abounding with Elk, deer, bear, and Antelope, and possess a much greater number of horses and mules than they do themselves; or using their own figure that their horses and mules are as numerous as the grass of the plains.   
  • the forks of this river is famous as a gig fishery and is much resorted by the natives.—    They killed one deer today. The Guide (Old Toby) apeared to be a very friendly intelligent old man, Capt.
  • August 21, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 8, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Sheilds (Shields, John) returned with a small deer on which we breakfasted.    by 11 A. M. all our hunters returned, Drewyer (Drouillard, George) and Cruzatte (Cruzatte, Pierre) brought each a deer, Collins (Collins, John) wounded another which my dogs caught at a little distance from the camp.    our stock of provision now consisted of 4 deer and the remnant of the horse which we killed at Colter's Creek (Potlatch River (Colter's Creek)) .
  • we gave this cheif and the indians with us some venison, horsebeef, the entrels of the four deer, and four fawns which were taken from two of the does that were killed, they eat none of their food raw, tho' the entrals had but little preperation and the fawns were boiled and consumed hair hide and entrals.   
  • May 8, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 4, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I saw immence quantities of buffaloe in every direction, also some Elk deer and goats; having an abundance of meat on hand I passed them without firing on them; they are extreemly gentle    the bull buffaloe particularly will scarcely give way to you.
  • we saw many beaver some which the party shot, we also killed two deer today.    much sign of the brown bear.    passed several old Indian hunting camps in the course of the day    one of them contained two large lodges which were fortifyed with old driftwood and fallen timber; this fortification consisted of a circular fence of timber lade horizontally 〈and〉 laping on and over laying each other to the hight of 5 feet.   
  • May 4, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 10, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • had a hard Thunder Shower of large hail and rain    thin proceeded on the bottom and river as usal.    the hunters killed only one deer this day.    Came 13 miles this day and Camped on the Stard. Side.— Saturday August 10th    This morning clear & pleasant, several of our Hunters went out early to hunt, & we set out as usual, We now have nothing to live on, but fresh meat, & that poor Venison & Goats flesh, and our men seem much fataigued; and find that meat only, is too weak a diet, for men undergoing so much fataigue; but they seem all content with what we can get.   
  • In the Evening we encamped in a bottom of timber'd land, lying on the River, on the North side having come 13 Miles this day.—    Our hunters returned to us here having killed One deer, which they brought with them If we take "S." to mean starboard, unlike the fair copy which makes it "South," then this can be a reference to Beaverhead Rock (Beaverhead Rock) .
  • August 10, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
October 25, 1805 - Clark, William
  • W. where timber of different kinds grows, and appears to be handsom Coverts for the Deer, in oke woods, Sent out hunters to examine for game    G. D. Killed a Small Deer & other Saw much Sign, I killed a goose in the creek which was verry fat—    one of the guard saw a Drum fish to day as he Conceved    our Situation well Calculated to defend 〈us〉 our Selves from any designs of the natives, Should They be enclined to attack us.
  • October 25, 1805
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  • Clark, William
November 21, 1805 - Clark, William
  • a Short roab, and tissue or kind of peticoat of the bark of Cedar which fall down in Strings as low as the knee behind and not So low before    maney of the men have blankets of red blue or Spotted Cloth or the common three & 2½ point blankets, and Salors old clothes which they appear to prise highly, they also have robes of Sea Otter, Beaver, Elk, Deer, fox and Cat common to this countrey, which I have never Seen in the U States. They also precure a roabe from the nativs above, which is made of the Skins of a Small animal about the Size of a Cat, which is light and dureable and highly prized by those people—    the greater numbers of the men of the Chinnoks (Chinook Indians) have Guns and powder and Ball—    The Men are low homely and badly made, Small Crooked legs 〈and Small thighs〉 large feet, and all of both Sects have flattened heads—    The food of this nation is principally fish & roots    the fish they precure from the river by the means of nets and gigs, and the Salmon which run up the Small branches together with what they collect drifted up on the Shores of the Sea coast near to where they live— The roots which they use are Several different kinds, the Wappato which they precure from the nativs above, a black root which they call Shaw-na tâh que & the wild licquorish is the most Common, they also kill a fiew Elk Deer & fowl—    maney of the Chinnooks (Chinook Indians) appear to have venerious and pustelus disorders.   
  • November 21, 1805
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  • Clark, William
April 10, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • they offered us a second skin of a full grown sheep which was quite as large as that of a common deer.    they discovered our anxity to purchase and in order to extort a great plrice declared that they prized it too much to dispose of it.   
  • Pryor (Pryor, Nathaniel Hale) and Gibson (Gibson, George) joined us with Collins (Collins, John) who had killed 3 deer.    these were all of the blacktailed fallow kind.    we set out and continued our rout up the N. side of the river with great difficulty in consequence of the rapidity of the current and the large rocks which form this shore; the South side of the river is impassable.   
  • April 10, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 16, 1806 - Clark, William
  • The Inhabitents of this Village ware the robe of deer Elk Goat &c. and 〈maney〉 most of the men ware Legins and mockersons and Shirts highly ornimented with Porcupine quills & beeds.   
  • These traders were presumably coming into Grays Harbor (Grays Harbor) and the Strait of Juan de Fuca (Strait of Juan de Fuca) and Puget Sound (Puget Sound) , farther from the "Tapteet (Yakima (Tapteete) River) ," today's Yakima River (Yakima (Tapteete) River) , than Clark (Clark, William) may have imagined. Perhaps the deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus.
  • April 16, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 20, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • their children frequently wear robes of the large grey squirrel skins, those of the men and women are principally deer skins, some wolf, elk, bighorn and buffaloe; the latter they procure from the nations who sometimes visit the Missouri (Missouri River) .   
  • W. of these people, depend on hunting deer and Elk and trade with these people for their pounded fish.
  • April 20, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 20, 1806 - Clark, William
  • those of the men & women are principally deer, Some elk, wolf, Ibix & buffalow which they precure from distance nations who purchase their Pounded fish in exchange for those robes & Beeds.
  • those people are pore durty haughty. they burn Straw and Small willows.    have but little to eate and deer with what they have.    they precure the Silk grass of which they make their nets, the bear grass for makeing their mats and Several other necessary of the Indians of the following nations who trade with them as also the Skillutes (Watlala Indians) for their pounded fish.
  • April 20, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 18, 1806 - Clark, William
  • M we overtook the Canoe hunters, they had killed three deer which was divided and we halted and Cooked Some dinner on the Sandbar.   
  • after landing which was a little before night the hunters run out into the bottom and Killed four deer. The winds blew hard from the S. E. all day which retarded our progress very much    after the fires were made I set my self down with the big white (Big White (Sheheke)) man Chiefe and made a number of enquiries into the tredition of his nation as well as the time of their inhabiting the number of Villages the remains of which we see on different parts of the river, as also the cause of their evacuation.   
  • August 18, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 26, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Clark Tuesday 26th of August 1806 a heavy dew this morning    the hunters or Shannon (Shannon, George) & the 2 fields (Field, Joseph and Reubin) came up at Sunrise and we Set out, they had killed only 2 Small deer one of which they had eat    at 8 passed the place the Tetons (Sioux Indians, Teton) were encamped at the time they attempted to Stop us in Septr. 1804, and at 9 A.
  • Dak.)) . Saw Several black tail or Mule deer and Sent out to kill them but they were wild and the hunters Could not get a Shot at either of them.   
  • August 26, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 25, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Our hunters joined us at noon with three deer the greater part of which I gave the indians. sometime after we had halted, Charbono (Charbonneau, Toussaint) mentioned to me with apparent unconcern that he expected to meet all the Indians from the camp on the Columbia (Columbia River) tomorrow on their way to the Missouri (Missouri River) .   
  • we continued our march untill late in the evening and encamped at the upper part of the cove where the creek enters the mountains; here our hunters joined us with another deer which they had killed, this I gave to the women and Children, and for my own part remained supperless.
  • three hunters whom he had sent on before him this morning joined him in the evening having killed nothing; they saw only one deer. The course and the distances, of Capt. Clark's (Clark, William) rout down this branch of the Columbia (Columbia River) below this bluff, commencing opposite to an Island, are as follow.
  • August 25, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
November 21, 1805 - Clark, William
  • In my absence the hunters Kild. 7 Deer, 4 brants & a Crane. Great numbers of the dark brant passing Southerley, the white yet Stationary, no gees & Swan to be Seen.
  • the[y] were their hair loose, Some trinkets in their ears, none in the nose as those above, their Dress is as follows, i,e the men, were a roabe of either the skins of [blank] a Small fured animal, & which is most common, or the Skins of the Sea orter, Loon, Swan, Beaver, Deer, Elk, or blanketes either red, blu, or white, which roabes cover the sholders arms & body, all other parts are nakd.
  • The orniments are beeds, Blue principally, large Brass wire around their rists Som rings, and maney men have Salors Clothes, many have good fusees & Ball & Powder—    The women ware a String of Something curious tied tight above the anckle, all have large Swelled legs & thighs    The men Small legs & thighs and Generally badly made— They live on Elk Deer fowls, but principally fish and roots of 3 Kinds, Lickorish, Wapto &c.
  • November 21, 1805
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  • Clark, William
March 30, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I took a walk of a few miles through the prarie and an open grove of oak timber which borders the prarie on the back part. I saw 4 deer in the course of my walk and much appearance of both Elk and deer. Joseph feields who was also out a little above me saw several Elk and deer but killed none of them; they are very shye and the annual furn which is now dry and abundant in the bottoms makes so much nois in passing through it that it is extreemly difficult to get within reach of the game.
  • March 30, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
Part 5: Missouri River Miscellany - Clark, William
  • Moose Deer Mountain
  • to the Mandans (Mandan Indians) are Elk Common Deer, fallow Deer, Mule Deer with Black tail, Antalope or Goats Buffalow Har[e]s Rabits large wolves, Small wolves (Red foxes & Small Grey foxes above the Chayenne River) Porcupins Bra-roes, a Small Dog or Squirel which lives in Burrowed Villages & Barks at the approach at any thing they do not understand weasel mice of Different kinds in great abundance Beaver & otter, the upper part a fiew Loucirvea and Grisley Bear which is said to be verry dangerous.
  • about 30 or 40 Leages Called Moose Deer Mountain (Moose Deer Mountain) , North of Fort Mandan (Fort Mandan (N.
  • Winter 1804-1805
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  • Clark, William
June 25, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Side at 12 oClock, Called Bennet's Creek (Sugar (Labeenie, Bennet's, Benoit) Creek)    The Praries Come within a Short distance of the river on each Side which Contains in addition to Plumbs Raspberries & vast quantities of wild 〈crab〉 apples, 〈which is of a [blank] and wild flowers〉    great numbs. of Deer are seen feeding on the young willows & earbage in the Banks 〈op〉 and on the Sand bars in the river.   
  • June 25, 1804
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  • Clark, William
July 1, 1804 - Clark, William
  • S.   12   paecaun Trees Seen on the S. S.    Deer and turkeys in great quantities on the bank
  • July 1, 1804
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  • Clark, William
July 11, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Several hunters Sent out to day on both Sides of the river, Seven Deer Killed to day. Drewyer (Drouillard, George) Killd Six of them, made Some Luner observations this evening.
  • July 11, 1804
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  • Clark, William
July 19, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Clark of no consequence 3    July 19th    afte[r] breakfast which was on a rosted Ribs of a Deer a little and a little Coffee I walked on Shore intending only to Keep up with the Boat, Soon after I got on Shore, Saw Some fresh elk Sign, which I was induced to prosue those animals by their track to the hills    after assending and passing thro a narrow Strip of wood Land, Came Suddenly into an open and bound less Prarie, I Say bound less because I could not See the extent of the plain in any Derection, the timber appeared to be confined to the River Creeks & Small branches, this Prarie was Covered with grass about 18 Inches or 2 feat high and contained little of any thing else, except as before mentioned on the River Creeks &c, This prospect was So Sudden & entertaining that I forgot the object of my prosute and turned my attention to the Variety which presented themselves to my view    after continueing on the rise for Some minits, I deturmined to make my course to a line of woods to S: E.   
  • July 19, 1804
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  • Clark, William
July 23, 1804 - Clark, William
  • [president] [blank] U S    five Deer Killed to day    one man with a tumer on his breast, Prepared our Camp    the men put their arms in order Wind hard this afternoon from the N.
  • July 23, 1804
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  • Clark, William
August 1, 1804 - Clark, William
  • S, two Kind of Honeysuckle, the Bush which I have Seen in Kentucky (Kentucky) , with a paile Pink flower, also one which grow in Clusters about 4 or 5 feet high bearing a Short flour in clusters of the like Colour.    the leaves Single.    3 Deer & an Elk Killed to day. This being my birth day I order'd a Saddle of fat Vennison, an Elk fleece & a Bevertail to be cooked and a Desert of Cheries, Plumbs, Raspberries Currents and grapes of a Supr. quallity.   
  • August 1, 1804
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  • Clark, William
September 4, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • the water Shoots in to the Missiouri (Missouri River) verry Swift, & has thrown the Sand out, which makes a Sand bar & Sholes from the mouth a considerable distance    we Saw 2 Deer, & large flocks of geese up the mo of this river; we proceeded on    passt a handsom Bottom covered with different kinds of Timber Such as red Ceder, honey locas, oak arrowwood Elm, Coffee nut &.C.   
  • September 4, 1804
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  • Ordway, John
September 10, 1804 - Clark, William
  • The river is falling a little, Great number of Buffalow & Elk on the hill Sides feeding    deer Scerce
  • September 10, 1804
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  • Clark, William
September 19, 1804 - Gass, Patrick
  • About two miles further we passed another creek called Night creek (Counselor (Camel, Elm, Night) Creek) where we encamped on the south side. Three black tailed deer were killed this day. The "Sioux Pass of the Three Rivers (Missouri River, Three Forks of the) "; the streams are Crow (Crow Creek (S.
  • September 19, 1804
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  • Gass, Patrick
September 20, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Fields (Field, Reubin) killed 1 Deer & 2 Goats one of them a feemale—    She Differs from the mail as to Size being Smaller, with Small Horns, Stright with a Small prong without any black about the neck— None of those Goats has any Beard, they are all Keenly made, and is butifull
  • September 20, 1804
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  • Clark, William
September 22, 1804 - Gass, Patrick
  • They had killed a white wolf and some deer. We proceeded on, passed a creek, and islands of the three sisters (Three Sisters) ; and an old Indian camp, where we found some of their dog-poles, which answer for setting poles.
  • September 22, 1804
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  • Gass, Patrick
September 15, 1804 - Clark, William
  • S. opposit the mouth of a large Creek on which there is more timber than is usial on Creeks of this Size, this Creek raised 14 feet the last rains. I killed a Buck Elk & Deer, this evening is verry Cold, Great many wolves of Different Sorts howling about us.   
  • September 15, 1804
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  • Clark, William
October 18, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • our hunters all joined us    had killed Six Deer 4 Goats & 3 Elk    we Got all the Meat except 2 of the Elk which was too late to find them.   
  • October 18, 1804
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  • Ordway, John
February 12, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Clark (Clark, William) arrived with the hunting party—    since they set out they have killed forty Deer, three buffaloe bulls, & sixteen Elk, most of them were so meager that they were unfit for uce, particularly the Buffaloes and male Elk—    the wolves also which are here extreemly numerous heped themselves to a considerable proportion of the hunt—    if an anamal is killed and lyes only one night exposed to the wolves it is almost invariably devoured by them.
  • February 12, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
February 21, 1805 - Clark, William
  • The Big Bellies (Hidatsa Indians) have a Stone to which they ascribe nearly the Same Virtues Capt Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) returned with 2 Slays loaded with meat, after finding that 〈they〉 he could not overtake the Souis (Sioux Indians) war party, (who had in their way distroyd all the meat at one Deposit which I had made & Burnt the Lodges) deturmined to proceed on to the lower Deposit, which he found had not been observed by Soux (Sioux Indians)    he hunted two day    Killed 36 Deer & 14 Elk, Several of them So meager, that they were unfit for use, the meet which he killed and that in the lower Deposit amounting to about 3000 wt was brought up on two Slays, one Drawn by 16 men had about 2400 wt on it This stone is on Medicine Hill (Medicine Hill) , in Medicine Rock State Historic Site (Medicine Rock State Historic Site (N.
  • February 21, 1805
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  • Clark, William
April 12, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • found wild Inions &.c.    one of the hunters killed a deer.    another killed a bald Eagle.    the men all returned but had not killed any thing more.
  • April 12, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
April 28, 1805 - Clark, William
  • E. and moderate, I walked on Shore to view the Countrey, from the top of the high hills, I beheld a broken & open Countrey on both Sides, near the river Some verry handsom low plains, I killd. a Deer & a goose, Saw three black bear great numbers of Elk antelopes & 2 Gangues of Buffalow, the hills & Bluffs Shew the Straturs of Coal, and burnt appearances in many places, in and about them I could find no appearance of Pumice Stone, the wood land have a green appearance, the Plains do not look So green as below, The bottom are not So wide this afternoon as below    Saw four bear this evening, one of the men Shot at one of them.
  • April 28, 1805
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  • Clark, William
May 22, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Clark May 22nd Wednesday 1805 The wind Continued to blow So violently hard we did not think it prudent to Set out untill it luled a little, about 10 oClock we Set out    the morning Cold, passed a Small Island in the bend to the Lard Side, & proceeded on    at 5 miles higher passed a Island in a bend to the Stard Side, and a Creek a Short distance above on the Stard Side 20 yds. w    Capt Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) walked out before dinner & Killed a Deer, I walked out after dinner and assended & but a few miles to view the Countrey, which I found roleing & of a verry rich Stickey Soil produceing but little vegitation of any kind except the prickley-piar, but little grass & that verry low.   
  • May 22, 1805
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  • Clark, William
July 3, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • In the Evening 2 of our Men went out a short distance from Camp, and killed a fat buffalo, and some of our party was sent after the Meat, which they brought to us, The Serjeant and 2 Men that went with him returned towards night; they had killed 6 Buffalo and saved the tongues & Brains only, the latter being wanted to dress Deer leather, with.    We fixed the leather on the Iron boat, & then took the boat apart, she had 8 Sections of 4 feet each—
  • July 3, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
July 26, 1805 - Clark, William
  • We Contind. thro a Deep Vallie without a Tree to Shade us Scorching with heat to the men who had killed a pore Deer, I was fatigued my feet with Several blisters & Stuck with prickley pears.
  • July 26, 1805
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  • Clark, William
November 20, 1805 - Clark, William
  • in my absence the hunters had killed Several Deer and fowl of different kinds— Very likely the same as Shelathwell (Shelathwell) , prominent among the Chinooks (Chinook Indians) in the 1790s, when he was reported by traders; he was often in company with Comcomly (Comcomly) .
  • November 20, 1805
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  • Clark, William
November 29, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Capt Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) and 5 hunters Set out in our Indian Canoe (which is Calculated to ride wave) dow to the place we expected to find Elk from the Inds. information, the[y] pointed to a Small Bay which is yet below us—    I Sent out 2 men to hunt Deer which I expected might be on the open hill Sides below, another to hunt fowl in the deep bend above the point, all the others engaged drying their leather before the fire, and prepareing it for use—they haveing but fiew other Species of Clothing to ware at this time The winds are from Such points that we cannot form our Camp So as to provent the Smoke which is emencely disagreeable, and painfull to the eyes—    The Shore below the point at our Camp is formed of butifull pebble of various colours.
  • November 29, 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
December 7, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • We cooked the greater part of a Young Deer, which the hunters had killed, & left near this place.—    We set off, the Waves running very high.—    Captain Clarks (Clark, William) negroe Man servant (York) , not having come up, with the Men whom he had went out with, he waited with his Canoe for him.   
  • December 7, 1805
  • Journals
  • Whitehouse, Joseph
March 26, 1806 - Clark, William
  • This bottom we also Call fannys bottom (Crims (Fanny's) Island)    it is extensive and an open leavel plain except near the river bank which is high dry rich oak land. I saw Some deer & Elk at a distance in the Prarie.    we continued untill late in the evening and encamped on a Small Island near the Middle of the river haveing made 18 Miles.    2 Indians Visited us this evining
  • March 26, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William

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