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July 30, 1806 - Clark, William
  • North   1 ½ miles to the enteranc of a 〈large〉 small dry Creek (Cabin Creek (Custer County, Mont.)) in the Lard. Bend near a high Bluff N. 20° E.   1 mile to a large dry Brook in Std. bend N. 5° W.   2 miles the Center Lard Bend    rocks on both Sides in the bottom but little wood N. 30° E.   2 miles to a Stard. point East   2 miles to a Stard Bend    passd. a Brook on each Side but little wood N. 20° E.   1 ½ miles on the Stard.
  • July 30, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 2, 1806 - Clark, William
  • passed the lower point of one N. 10° E.   4 miles to the lower part of a low bluff on Stard Side passed a Small island and Several Sand bers North   2 miles to a Small island near the Lard Shore    low leavel Plain on Lard.
  • August 2, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 11, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • Pryor (Pryor, Nathaniel Hale) , accompanied by Shannon (Shannon, George) , Windsor (Windsor, Richard) , and Hall (Hall, Hugh) , left Clark's (Clark, William) party near Billings (Billings, Mont.) , Montana (Montana) , on July 24, 1806, taking an easterly route on horseback toward the Mandan (Mandan Indians) -Hidatsa (Hidatsa Indians) villages on the Knife River (Knife River) in North Dakota (North Dakota) .
  • August 11, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
August 27, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • Thompson (Thompson, David) , Astronomer to the North West Company, took his observations in the year 1798 to ascertain the latitude and longitude of the northern bend of the Missouri (Missouri River) , was near the longitude of the Mandan (Mandan Indians) villages. If what MrThompson (Thompson, David) called the northern bend is the same with what Mr Gass (Gass, Patrick) calls the great bend (Missouri River, Big Bend of the) (of which there appears little doubt) the longitude of the Mandan (Mandan Indians) villages will be between two and three degrees west of the northern, or great bend (Missouri River, Big Bend of the) ; or in about longitude 104 degrees west of London (London) , 29 degrees west of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.) , 11 1.2 degrees west of the mouth of the Missouri (Missouri River) , and nearly 20 degrees east of the mouth of the Columbia (Columbia River) .
  • August 27, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
September 11, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Sent out 6 hunters they killed and brought in two Deer only, we proceeded on a fiew miles below the Nadawa Island (Nodaway Island) and encamped on a Small Isld. near the N. E. Side, haveing Came 40 Miles only to day, river rapid and in maney places Crouded with Snag's.
  • September 11, 1806
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  • Clark, William
September 21, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Charles (Saint Charles, Mo.) , the party rejoiced at the Sight of this hospital village plyed thear ores with great dexterity and we Soon arived opposit the Town, this day being Sunday we observed a number of Gentlemen and ladies walking on the bank, we Saluted the Village by three rounds from our blunderbuts and the Small arms of the party, and landed near the lower part of the town.    we were met by great numbers of the inhabitants, we found them excessively polite.   
  • September 21, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
Heritage of the Great Plains 37: no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2004)
  • Precipitation varies from about forty inches a year in southeastern Kansas to about fifteen inches near the Colorado border. In Nebraska the amount of rainfall varies from about 28 inches in the east to about 18 inches in the west.
  • Two years later, as the Corps of Discovery traveled quickly downstream on their homeward journey, the weather grew hotter as they neared the Platte. Clark wrote on September 9, 1806 that: the climate is every day preceptably warmer and air more Sultery than I have experienced for a long time.
  • Olsen believes they first made camp in Nebraska on July 15, near the mouth of the Little Nemaha. On the Fourth of July, however, the party was still in what would later be the state of Kansas, encamped on the newly named Independence Creek.
  • N.D.
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  • Karen Jean De Bres
The Men of the Lewis & Clark Expedition The Men of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
  • At a site west of the Yellowstone River the beaver were so numerous that the slapping of their tails on the water kept some men from nodding off; near the mouth of the Columbia the huge and noisy flocks of geese and brants had done the same thing.
  • Not until 29 March, nearly a week after the expedition has departed for home from Fort Clatsop, is Willard considered "quit well" by his captains. ∙19 APRIL 1806. Halfway up the Columbia River, near the Dalles of Oregon, Willard once more allows his horse to wander off.
  • In eastern Montana, where Willard has once more become one of the regular hunters, he and Ordway kill two deer and a large grizzly (revenge from the near-death experience of a year earlier?) and set out in their canoe to catch up with the others.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Charles G. Clarke
May 20, 1804 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • M. our progress was interrupted [hole]    the near approach of a violent thunder storm from the N. W. and concluded to take shelter in a little cabbin hard by untill the rain should be over; accordingly we alighted and remained about an hour and a half and regailed ourselves with a could collation which we had taken the precaution to bring with us from St.
  • On the evening of the 14th the party halted and encamped on the upper point of the first Island which lyes near the Larbord shore, on the same side and nearly opposite the center of this Island a small Creek disimbogues called Couldwater (Coldwater (Colewater) Creek) .
  • May 20, 1804
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
Weather, October 1804 - Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
  • [Remarks] October 1st the leaves of the ash popular & most of the shrubs begin to turn yellow and decline    came too this evening near the habitation of a Frenchman—   3rd the earth and sand which form the bars of the river are so fully impregnated with salt that it shoots and adhers to the little sticks which appear on the serface    it is pleasent & seems niterous.—   5th slight white frost last night—    brant & geese passing to South   6th frost as last night    saw teal, mallard, & Gulls large.   8th arrived at Recare (Arikara Indians) vilage, visited the Chief on the Island   9th wind blew hard this morning drove the boat from her anker, came to Shore, some brant & geese passing to the south, 〈spoke to them recares (Arikara Indians) 〉   10th had the mill erected    shewed the savages its operation, spoke to them shot my airgun.   
  • set out at 2 in the evening.   13th tried Newman (Newman, John) at 12 oCk for mutiny—    cottonwood all yellow and the leaves begin to fall, abundance of grapes and red burries—   14th the leaves of all the trees as ash, elm &c except the cotton- wood is now fallen—    punished newman (Newman, John) —   17th saw a large flock of White geese with Black wings, Anti- lopes are passing to the black hills (Black Hills) to winter, as is their custom   18th hard frost last night, the clay near the water edge was fro- zen, as was the water in the vessels exposed to the air.   19th no Mule deer seen above the dog river (Cheyenne River) none at the recares   20th much more timber than usual—    Saw the first black haws that we have seen for a long time—    Pier Crusat (Cruzatte, Pierre) shot a white bear left his gun and tomahalk   22nd the snow ½ inch deep.   
  • October 31, 1804
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  • Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
June 29, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the water of the fountain boil up with such force near it's center that it's surface in that part seems even higher than the surrounding earth which is a firm handsom terf of fine green grass.   
  • (Clark, William)    on his arrival at the falls (Missouri River, Great Falls of the) he perceived a very black cloud rising in the West which threatened immediate rain; he looked about for a shelter but could find none without being in great danger of being blown into the river should the wind prove as violent as it sometimes is on those occasions in these plains; at length about a ¼ of a mile above the falls (Missouri River, Great Falls of the) he discovered a deep rivene where there were some shelving rocks under which he took shelter near the river with Sharbono (Charbonneau, Toussaint) and the Indian woman (Sacagawea) ; laying their guns compass &c. under a shelving rock on the upper side of the rivene where they were perfectly secure from the rain.   
  • June 29, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
September 9, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Lewis Monday September 9th 1805 Set out at 7 A M. this morning and proceeded down the Flathead river (Bitterroot (Clark's, Flathead) River) leaving it on our left, the country in the valley of this river is generally a prarie and from five to 6 miles wide    the growth is almost altogether pine principally of the longleafed kind, with some spruce and a kind of furr resembleing the scotch furr.    near the wartercourses we find a small proportion of the narrow leafed cottonwood some redwood honeysuckle and rosebushes form the scant proportion of underbrush to be seen.   
  • our guide could not inform us where this river discharge itself into the columbia river (Columbia River) , he informed us that it continues it's course along the mountains to the N. as far as he knew it and that not very distant from where we then were it formed a junction with a stream nearly as large as itself which took it's rise in the mountains near the Missouri (Missouri River) to the East of us and passed through an extensive valley generally open prarie which forms an excellent pass to the Missouri (Missouri River) .   
  • September 9, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
October 31, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Fields (Field, Joseph) & Peter Crusat (Cruzatte, Pierre) and proceeded on down, Send Crusat (Cruzatte, Pierre) back at 2 ms. to examine the rapid near the shore & I proceeded on down about 10 miles to a very high rock in a bottom on the Stard. opsd. 2 Islands covered with timber on which I saw Inds. at a distance; found the river rocky for 6 miles, after which the Current became uniform—    at 1 mile I passed an old deserted village on a Pond on a high Situation of 8 Houses—    at 3 ½ miles one house the only remt. of an antient Villag    ½ a mile lower I saw 8 Vaults for the Dead which was nearly Square 8 feet Closely Covered with broad boads Curiously engraved, the bones in Some of those vaults wer 4 feet thick, in others the Dead was yet layed Side of each other nearly East & west, raped up & bound Securley in robes, great numbers of trinkets Brass Kittle, Sea Shells, Iron, Pan Hare &c. &c. was hung about the vaults and great many wooden gods, or Images of men Cut in wood, Set up round the vaults, Some of those So old and worn by time that they were nearly worn out of Shape, and Some of those vaults So old that they were roted entirely to the ground—    not withstanding they wood is of Pine & [one word illegible] or Seder as also the wooden gods I can not learn certainly if those people worship those woden emiges, they have them in conspicuous parts of their houses    at 5 miles I passed 4 large houses on the Stard Side a little above the last rapid and opposit a large Island which is Situated near the Lard. Side—    The enhabitents of those houses had left them closely Shut up, they appeared to Contn. a great deel of property and Provisions Such as those people use, I did not disturb any thing about those houses, but proceed on down below the rapid which I found to be the last, a large village has at Some period been on the Stard.
  • October 31, 1805
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  • Clark, William
October 30, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Side in the mouth of which is an Island, passed on the right of 3 Islands 〈on〉 near the Stard. Side, and landed on an Island close under the Stard.
  • I took two men and walked down three miles to examine the Shute and river below proceeded along an old Indian path, passd. an old village at 1 mile on an ellevated Situation of    this village contained verry large houses built in a different form from any I had Seen, and laterly abandoned, and the most of the boads put into a pond of water near the village, as I conceived to drown the flees, which was emencely noumerous about the houses—.
  • October 30, 1805
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  • Clark, William
August 16, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the men also gave their guns to other indians which seemed to inspire them with more confidence; they sent their spies before them at some distance and when I drew near the place I thought of the notes which I had left and directed Drewyer (Drouillard, George) to go with an Indian man and bring them to me which he did.   
  • at this place there is a very consider- able rapid and clifts near on both sides S. 45° W.    ½ mile to the lower point of an Island near the center of the Valley and river.
  • August 16, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
January 1, 1804 - Clark, William
  • or Red river (Red River of the North) & that the M: [Missouri River] (Missouri River) is about 150 yds. over at this nation Perhaps Joseph, Joshua or Josiah Vaughn (Vaughn, Joseph (Joshua or Josiah?)) , who all lived near the camp. Madison, 72, 82–83. Nelumbo lutea (Willd.)
  • January 1, 1804
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  • Clark, William
July 18, 1804 - Clark, William
  • S. the hills jut to the river (4)    this Hill has Sliped from the top which forms a Bluff above & 200 foot above the water, about ¾ of a mile in length & about 200 feet in Depth has Sliped into the river    it is Composed of Sand Stone intermixed with an indiffert. Iron ore    near the bottom or next to the water is a Soft Slate Stone, Som pebble is also intermixt, we passed a verry bad Sand bar and incamped on the L.
  • July 18, 1804
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  • Clark, William
April 17, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) killed 2 Buffalow buls which was near the water at the time of dineing, they were So pore as to be unfit for use.
  • April 17, 1805
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  • Clark, William
April 26, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • Saw a flock of Goats Swimming the river this morning near to our Camp. Capt. Lewises (Lewis, Meriwether) dog Seamon (Seaman) took after them caught one in the River.
  • April 26, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
May 5, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Course & Distance 5th of May S. 70° W.   3 miles to the willows on the lower point of an Island near the Sd. Side opposit a low bluff. S. 72° W.   2 ½ miles to Some high timber on a projecting point on the Stad.
  • May 5, 1805
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  • Clark, William
May 26, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • " 'The Mufflon, or Musmon, though covered with hair, bears a stronger similitude to the Ram than to any other animal; like the Ram it has the eyes placed near the horns; and its ears are shorter than those of the goat: it also resembles the Ram in its horns, and in all the particular contours of its form.
  • May 26, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
May 31, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • great nombers has fallen from the walls near the river which causes the wall of unequal hite, in the hollars & gullies I Saw Some Scrubby ceddr.   
  • May 31, 1805
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
June 29, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • Clark (Clark, William) informed us that when he Saw the Shower comming he looked out for Some Shelter    about ¼ of a mile above the falls he observed a deep reveen in which was Shelving rocks under which they took Shelter near the river and placed their and Compass &C &C. under a Shelving rock in a place verry secure from rain    the first Shower was moderate to them then a torrent of rain fell and hail violent than they ever Saw before.   
  • June 29, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
June 25, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • about noon Fields (Field, Joseph) returned and informed me that he had seen two white bear near the river a few miles above and in attempting to get a shoot them had stumbled uppon a third which immediately made at him being only a few steps distant; that in runing in order to escape from the bear he had leaped down a steep bank of the river on a stony bar where he fell cut his hand bruised his knees and bent his gun.   
  • June 25, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 25, 1805 - Clark, William
  • this little river falls into the Missouri (Missouri River) by three mouthes, haveing Seperated after it arrives in the river Bottoms, and Contains as also all the water courses in this quarter emence number of Beaver & orter    maney thousand enhabit the river & Creeks near the 3 forks (Missouri River, Three Forks of the) (Pholosiphie's River (Willow Creek (Philosophy River) (Gallatin County, Mont.)) )—    We Campd on the Same Side we assended Starboard 20 miles on a direct line up the N. fork (Jefferson River (North, Southwest Fork)) .
  • July 25, 1805
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  • Clark, William
August 22, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • We went about 15 miles to day, and encamped on a small island, as there was no other level place near. Game is scarce, and we killed nothing since the 18th but one deer; and our stock of provisions is exhausted.
  • August 22, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
September 13, 1805 - Clark, William
  • The springs emerge from granitic rocks of the Cretaceous-age Idaho baholith very near the batholith's contact with rocks of the Precambrian Belt Group.
  • September 13, 1805
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  • Clark, William
September 14, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • They reached the Lochsa River (Lochsa (Upper Kooskooske) River) and went down it, some two miles below the mouth of Colt Killed Creek (Colt Killed Creek) (formerly White Sand Creek (Colt Killed Creek) but now restored to Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) and Clark's (Clark, William) name) and camped near Powell Ranger Station (Powell Ranger Station) , Idaho County (Idaho County, Idaho) .
  • September 14, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
September 24, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • high hills each Side of the River thinly covred with pine but not large enofe for canoes, but we expect to find Some near, So that we may leave our horses in the care of a chief and go down by water to the ocean.— Tuesday Septemr 24th    A Clear pleasant Morning, & a number of our party were sent out in order to hunt our horses, which were scattered all over the plain.   
  • September 24, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
October 11, 1805 - Clark, William
  • (also called C. douglasii Planch) which is near its northernmost distributional limit along the Snake River (Snake (Ki-moo-e-nim, Lewis's, Southeast Branch of Columbia) River) at the Washington (Washington) -Idaho (Idaho) border.
  • October 11, 1805
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  • Clark, William
October 23, 1805 - Clark, William
  • The Altitude of this day 66° 27' 30" gave for Latd. 45° 42' 57 3/10" N. I observed on the beach near the Indian Lodges two Canoes butifull of different Shape & Size to what we had Seen above wide in the midde and tapering to each end, on the bow curious figures were Cut on the wood &c.   
  • October 23, 1805
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  • Clark, William
October 28, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Maney of the nativs of the last Village Came down Set and Smoke with us, wind blew hard accompanied with rain all the evening, our Situation not a verry good one for an encampment, but Such as it is we are obliged to put up with, the harbor is a Safe one, we encamped on the Sand wet and disagreeable    one Deer killed this evening, and another wounded near our Camp. These cliffs are composed of the middle Miocene Frenchman Springs Member (Frenchman Springs Member) of the Wanapum Basalt.
  • October 28, 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
November 5, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • Including Bachelor Island (Bachelor (Green Bryor, Quathlahpotle) Island) , their Green Bryor Island (Bachelor (Green Bryor, Quathlahpotle) Island) , near the mouth of Lewis River (Lewis (Cahwahnakiooks) River) , the boundary between Clark (Clark County, Wash.)
  • November 5, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
December 18, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • blue Crested corvus bird [EC: Cyanocitta stelleri] common to the woody and western side of the Rockey mountains (Rocky Mountains) , and all the woody country from thence to the Pacific Ocean (Pacific Ocean)    It's beak is black convex, cultrated, wide at its base where it is beset with hairs, and is 1¼ inches from the opening of the chaps to their extremity, and from the joining of the head to the extremity of the upper chap 1⅛ Inches, the upper exceeds the under chap a little; the nostrils are small round unconnected and placed near the base of the beak where they lye concealed by the hairs or hairy feathers which cover the base of the 〈beak〉 upper chap.   
  • December 18, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
December 29, 1805 - Clark, William
  • we were informed day before yesterday that a whale had foundered on the coast to the S. W. near the Kil a mox (Tillamook Indians) N. and that the greater part of the Clat Sops (Clatsop Indians) were gorn for the oile & blubber, the wind proves too high for us to proceed by water to See this monster, Capt Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) has been in readiness Since we first heard of the whale to go and see it and collect Some of its Oil, the wind has proved too high as yet for him to proceed—    this evining a young Chief 4 Men and 2 womin of the War ci a cum (Wahkiakum Indians) Nation arrived, and offered for Sale Dressed Elk Skins and Wap pa to, the Chief made us a preasent of about ½ a bushel of those roots.   
  • December 29, 1805
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  • Clark, William
January 24, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • they brought two deer and the flesh of three Elk & one Elk's skin, having given the flesh of one other Elk which they killed and three Elk's skins to the Indians as the price of their assistance in transporting the ballance of the meat to the Fort; these Elk and deer were killed near point Adams (Point Adams) and the Indians carryed them on their backs about six miles, before the waves were sufficiently low to permit their being taken on board their canoes.   
  • January 24, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
March 28, 1806 - Clark, William
  • the interior of this Island is a prarie & ponds, with a heavy growth of Cotton wood, ash & willow near the river.    we have Seen more water fowl on this island than we have previously Seen Since we left Fort Clatsop (Fort Clatsop (Oreg.)) , Consisting of Geese, Ducks, large Swan & Sand Hill crains.
  • March 28, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
March 22, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • Colter (Colter, John) stayed out. This entry appears near the end of Ordway's (Ordway, John) second book of his three-volume journal.
  • March 22, 1806
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
April 21, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Currency—    we took the precaution of picqueting and Spancelling our horses this evening near our Camp.    the evening Cold and we Could afford only one fire.
  • April 21, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
June 23, 1806 - Clark, William
  • We directed the horses to be brought near Camp and secured in Such a manner that they may be readily obtained in the morning being deturmined to make an early Start if possible—.— Colter (Colter, John) one of our hunters did not return this evening—.
  • June 23, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
July 25, 1806 - Clark, William
  • about 45 m a large dry Creek falls in on the opposit Side opposit this Tower    The Countrey to the N. is ruged near the river. a range of high hills which appear to run from South to North covered with pine at about 18 miles to the East    to S. no timber.
  • July 25, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Accompanied by several Indians who lived near the obstruction, Clark climbed to its top to study what he later called the Short Narrows.
  • The Eneeshur band of Sahaptians, who lived near Celilo Falls, could not understand the Echeloot Wishrams who lived only half a dozen miles away.
  • And some of those traders, the Indians kept insisting, insofar as the Americans could read their gestures, lived in houses near the mouth of the river. The increasing ambivalence with which the two races regarded each other became evident on November 4, on what is now Sauvie Island near present-day Portland.
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
September 22, 1804 - Clark, William
  • S. opposit Ceeder Is- land on which Louselle (Loisel, Régis) Wintered 1803    passed a Small Island at one & ½ miles, and a large Island 3 miles long above Called the 3 Sisters (Dorion Island No. 1 (Three Sisters Island)) situated near the L. S.    oppo- sit this Island a large Creek Coms in on the L.
  • ))    (3) passed Cedar Island (Dorion Island No. 2 (Cedar Island)) 1½ M. long & 1 M. wide Situated a little above the last and nearest the S. S.—near the upper part of this Island on its S. Side a Tradeing fort is Situated built of Cedar—by a Mr.
  • September 22, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
October 18, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Clark October 18th 〈Wednesday〉 Friday 1805 a cold morning faire & wind from S E    Several Heath hens or large Pheasents lit near us & the men killed Six of them. Took one altitude of the Suns upper Limb 28° 22' 15" at h m s 8 1 24 A.
  • Side, passed a Island in middle of river at 3 m. 21 Columbia River (Columbia River) near Mouth of Walla Walla River (Walla Walla (Waller Waller) River) , Washington (Washington) , October 16–18, 1805, Elkskin-bound Journal Missouri Historical Society we Encamped a little below & opsd. the lower point of the Island on the Lard.
  • October 18, 1805
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  • Clark, William
February 1, 1806 - Clark, William
  • The Canoes of the nativs inhabitting the lower part of the Columbia River (Columbia River) from the Long narrows (Columbia River, The Dalles of the (Great Narrows)) down make their canoes remarkably neat light and well addapted for rideing high waves. I have Seen the nativs near the Coast rideing waves in these Canoes in Safty and appearantly without Concern when I Should it impossible for any vessel of the Same Size to have lived or kept above water a minute.   
  • this is the next Smallest and from 16 to 20 feet long and calculated for two or 3 persons and are most Islands, near their villages. A the bow; B the stern; those are from 20 to 40 feet in length and from 2½ to 3½ feet in the beam and about 2 feet deep; this Canoe is common to all the nations below the grand Rapids (Columbia River, Cascades (Great Rapids, Great Shute))    it here made deeper and Shorter in pertotion than the canoe realy is, the bow sprit from C. to D. is brought to a Sharp edge tapering gradually from the Sides.
  • February 1, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
February 14, 1806 - Clark, William
  • the other or westerly fork passes near a range of mountains and is the fork which great numbers of Indian Bands of the So sone (Shoshone Indians) or Snake (Shoshone Indians) Indians, this fork most probably heads with North River or the waters of Callifornia (California) .
  • They believed that this river began near the headwaters of the Missouri (Missouri River) and the Yellowstone (Yellowstone River) , which is in fact the case with the Snake (Snake (Ki-moo-e-nim, Lewis's, Southeast Branch of Columbia) River) .
  • February 14, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
April 2, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • in their manners dress language and stature these people are the same with the quathlahpohtle (Cathlapotle Indians) nation and others residing in the neighbourhood of wappetoe Island (Sauvie (Wapato) Island) .    near the entrance of multnomah river (Willamette (Multnomah) River) a considerable nation resides on the lower side of that stream by the same name.   
  • one family consisting of ten or twelve persons remained near us all night.    they conducted themselves in a very orderly manner.   
  • April 2, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 16, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Side N. 46° E. 4 ½ Miles on the Course to a Lard Bend of the river at }   7 which place there is Some rocks in the middle of the river near a low Clift of rocks on the Lard. Side passing a branch at 2 miles, and one of the Stard.
  • Dips up to 70° occur along some of the anticlines and synclines, but no perpendicular strata have been mapped in this area. Many near-vertical igneous dikes, however, cut the surface several miles north of the river, but would not have been easily seen from Clark's (Clark, William) route.
  • July 16, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
July 28, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we had proceeded about 12 miles on an East course when we found ourselves near the missouri (Missouri River) ; we heared a report which we took to be that of a gun but were not certain; still continuing down the N.
  • we now reimbarked on board the white peroge and five small canoes and decended the river about 15 ms. and encamped on the S. W. side near a few cottonwood trees, one of them being of the narrow leafed speceis and was the first of that kind which we had remarked on our passage up the river.   
  • July 28, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
Part 2: Miscellany - Clark, William
  • The large Black and Brindle Wolf is found as high up as the Mahars (Omaha Indians) Vil-      lage—    the Small burrowing wolf of the prarie is found as low as the      Mahars (Omaha Indians) & some fiew near the Missippi (Mississippi River)    836 Ms.
  • Papaws arrow wood and [letters crossed out, illegible] elder are found as high      as the little Nemahaw (Little Nemaha River) , also Sugar tree    480 mil Buckeye & 〈Sugartree〉 is found as high up as the old Kanzas (Kansa Indians) village above      Independance Creek (Independence Creek)    285 ms Green Bryar found as high up as [blank] Pacans are found as high up 〈as Osarge River (Osage (Osarge) River) 〉    400 In decending the Missouri (Missouri River) & Rochejhone (Yellowstone River) The Grapes of the Small kind first appear on the River Rochejhone (Yellowstone River) near      it's enterance into the Rocky mountains (Rocky Mountains)    2700 mils    but are not abun-      dant on that river, the grape are abundant below cannon ball rivers (Cannonball (Bullet) River)      1500 ms up    and from thence down to the enterance of the river into      the Mississippi (Mississippi River) .   
  • Postexpedition 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William

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