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May 18, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • these hunters had scowered the country between the Kooskooske (Clearwater (Flathead, Kooskooskee) River) and Collins's Creek (Lolo (Collins's) Creek (Idaho)) from hence to their junction about 10 miles and had seen no deer or bear and but little sign of either.    shortly after dark it began to rain and continued raining moderately all night.   
  • May 18, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 3, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Sent out the hunters    they killed three deer gave the indians half.    the musqutoes troublesome built fires for our horses.   
  • July 3, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 3, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • Two hunters went out and killed three deer. The musketoes are worse here than I have known them at any place, since we left the old Maha (Omaha Indians) village on the Missouri (Missouri River) .
  • July 3, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
July 1, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Clark Tuesday July 1st 1806 on Clark's river (Clark Fork (Clark's, East Fork Clark's, Flathead) River) We Sent out all the hunters very early this morning    by 12 OClock they all returned haveing killd. 12 Deer Six of them large fat Bucks, this is like once more returning to the land of liveing a plenty of meat and that very good.   
  • July 1, 1806
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  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • When they reached Hungry Creek, on whose banks Clark's advance party had killed a deer the previous September, they were confronted with a raging torrent of snowmelt.
  • Although frequent Indian hunting at Weippe had made the deer very shy, the riflemen found a way to lure the does. The females were, at the time, giving birth to their young.
  • The next day, fifteen elk, fourteen deer, two bighorns, and one beaver. Between the morning of August 2 and the evening of August 3, the Field brothers slew twenty-nine deer.
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
May 11, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • (Clark, William) also in his walk killed 2 Mule deer a beaver and two buffaloe; these last he killed about 3 miles above where we encamped this evening in the expectation that we would reach that place, but we were unable to do so from the adverse winds and other occurrences, and he came down and joined us about dark.   
  • Barton (Barton, Benjamin Smith) ] tho' from big Dry river (Big Dry Creek (Big Dry River)) to this place it has been more abundant than below, and a smaller variety of it grows on the hills, the leaves of which differ considerably being more deeply indented near it's extremity.    the buffaloe deer and Elk feed on this herb in the winter season as they do also on the small willow of the sandbards.   
  • May 11, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 20, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Clark (Clark, William) walked out today and killed two deer and an Elk, the hunters killed 4 deer and elk and a buffaloe. I saw two large Owls with remarkable long feathers on the sides of the head which resembled ears; I take them to be the large hooting owl tho: they are somewhat larger and their colours brighter than those common to the U' States.— Courses and distances of May 20th 1805.
  • May 20, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 27, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • no grass nor timber for them to live in, but what Ibex or Mountain Sheep, Elk deer &c live on what little grass their is in the vallies and narrow plains on river, which is covered with wild hysop rose bush & Some grass.   
  • The Game became scarcer here, than they have been for some time past, owing to their being no Grass, or Timber'd land for them to live in.—    no Trees to be seen here, but a few Pitch pine & Spruce.—    The Ibex, Elk & deer, being in the Valleys, & narrow plains below this on the River.—    Those Valleys and plains are covered with wild hysop, Rose bushes, and some Grass.—    some different kinds of wild mint grow along the Shore of the River, and Mussles are to be found in great abundance.—    The land along the Shore is Stoney, & Gravelly; and no falling in banks.—    The water that comes in here from the Creeks, runs so strong that it drives the Stones, and gravel, some distance into the River; which caused most of the hard Riffles, that we passed this day.—    And we had to Man our Crafts doubly in order to get them over Safe.—    One of our party kill'd a Mountain Sheep (Ibex,) this day; We came too and encamp'd where we found an old Indian Camp on the South side of the River, we are now 800 Miles above the Mandan (Mandan Indians) Nation & 2,415 Miles from the mouth of the Mesouri River (Missouri River) Douglas fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.)
  • May 27, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
August 1, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • this supply will no doubt be acceptable to them, as they had had no fresh meat when I left them for almost 2 days except one beaver; game being very scarce and shy above the forks (Missouri River, Three Forks of the) .    we had seen a few deer and antelopes but had not been fortunate enough to kill any of them.   
  • he sent out the two Fieldses to hunt this evening and they killed 5 deer, which with the Elk again gave them a plentifull store of fresh provisions. this large creek we called Field's Creek (Boulder River (Reubin Field's Valley Creek) (Jefferson County, Mont.))
  • August 1, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • Lewis and Clark also discovered or carefully described for the first time at least seven Great Plains species of mammals, including the pronghorn, grizzly bear, swift fox, black-tailed prairie dog, white-tailed jackrabbit, bushy-tailed woodrat, and mule deer. The Columbian ground squirrel was first encountered, and thus discovered, in western Montana, but it was not carefully described until after the group arrived in Oregon.
  • Burroughs compiled a list of game killed in the course of the expedition, largely for human consumption. At minimum, it included 1,001 deer, 35 elk, 227 bison, 62 pronghorns, 113 beaver, 104 geese and brant, 48 shorebirds ("plovers"), 46 grouse, 45 ducks and coots, and 9 turkeys.
  • N.D.
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  • Paul A. Johnsgard
July 5, 1804 - Clark, William
  • I call Yellow-Oaker Creek (Greasy (Rest, Rush) Creek) from a quantity of that Mineral in a bank a little above The river Continue to fall a litte—    I observe great quantities of Summer & fall Grapes, Berries & Wild roases on the banks—    Deer is not so plenty as usual, great Deel of Elk Sign.    (Wind from S E) Course Distance & reffers.
  • July 5, 1804
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  • Clark, William
July 6, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Sands which were moveing and difficuelt to pass.    the Hunts. Sent in 3 Deer Jurked    on the 4th point of to day is a Small Island & a Sand bar 2 miles out in the river, this is Called the Grand Bend (Saint Joseph (Grand Detour, Great Bend) Bend) , or Grande de Tour (Saint Joseph (Grand Detour, Great Bend) Bend) , I walked on this Sand bar    found it a light Sand intersperced with Small Pebbles of various Kinds, also pit Coal of an excellent quallity was lodged on the Sand, We camped on the L.
  • July 6, 1804
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  • Clark, William
July 18, 1804 - Clark, William
  • S. opposit a Small Island in the river, Saw a Dog this evening    appeared to be nearly Starved to death, he must have been left by Some party of Hunters    we gave him Some meet, he would not come near, G Drewrer brought in 2 Deer this evening Under this and the following entry in the Field Notes are the following, in Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) hand, indicating the sheet's use as an envelope during the winter at River Dubois (Dubois River) : Capt.
  • July 18, 1804
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  • Clark, William
July 21, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Fields (Field, Reubin) killed a Deer    hard wind N. W.    cold Biddle's (Biddle, Nicholas) notation at the head of this sheet of the Field Notes (document 34) reads, "July 21 to 22."
  • July 21, 1804
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  • Clark, William
September 8, 1804 - Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
  • here met with six buffaloe bulls of which we killed two—    1½ miles further an Island on the Lard about [blank] m in length—    came too at the lower point of this island and encamped, jerked the meet we had taken today consiting of two Buffaloe, one large buck Elk 1 Elk fawn, three fawn deer, three turkies & a Fox Squierel   17   I went out to day on the S.
  • September 8, 1804
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  • Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
September 21, 1804 - Clark, William
  • S. 6 miles above the Gorge of the bend, at the mouth of this river the two hunters a head left a Deer & its Skin also the Skin of a white wolf—we observe an emence number of Plover of Different kind Collecting and takeing their flight Southerly, also Brants which appear to move in the same Direction.
  • September 21, 1804
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  • Clark, William
October 18, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Saw a no of Buffalow, & in one gangue 248 Elk    our hunters Killed 6 Deer & 4 Elk this evening, The Countrey is leavel and fine    Some high Short hills, and ridges at a Distance, Bottoms fine and Partially timbered with Cotton wood principally Some ash & Elm.
  • October 18, 1804
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  • Clark, William
April 16, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • .—    he informed me that he had seen many Buffaloe Elk and deer in his absence, and that he had met with a great number of old hornets nests in the woody bottoms through which he had passed.—    the hills of the river still continue extreemly broken for a few miles back, when it becomes a fine level country of open fertile lands    immediately on the river there are many fine leavel extensive and extreemly fertile high plains and meadows.
  • April 16, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 21, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • C (Clark, William) walked on shore today and killed 2 Elk; the party killed several deer and a buffaloe Cow.— Courses and distances of May 21st 1805 West To a point of timber on the Stard.
  • May 21, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 17, 1805 - Clark, William
  • I walked on Shore after dinner & killed an Elk—    the party in my absence Killed a female Brown or yellow Bear which was meagre    the appearances of the Hills & Countrey is as 〈yesterday〉 before mentioned except a greater appearance of the white appearance of Salts or tarter and Some Coal which has been thrown out by the floods in the last Creek—    Buffalow & Deer is not plenty to day, Elk is yet to be Seen in abundance    we Camped in the upper part of a Small timbered bottom on the Lard.
  • May 17, 1805
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  • Clark, William
June 1, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • game is by no means as abundant as below; we killed one male bighorn and a mule deer today; saw buffalow at a distance in the plains particularly near a small Lake on Lard. side about 8 ms. distant.   
  • June 1, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
October 20, 1805 - Clark, William
  • one has a Salors jacket, The women have a Short indiferent Shirt, a Short robe of Deer or Goat Skins, & a Small Skin which they fastend, tite around their bodies & fastend. between the legs to hid the 〈passed on the Stard. and on the Lard. one Small in the Middle of the river at 16 miles〉 Opposite this course in the Elkskin-bound Journal appears a sketch map showing part of the route for October 20, 1805, between the mouths of the Umatilla (Umatilla (Youmalolam) River) and John Day (John Day (Lepage's) River (Sherman-Gilliam counties, Oreg.))
  • October 20, 1805
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  • Clark, William
December 1, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • sent out the men to hunt and examin the country, they soon returned all except Drewyer (Drouillard, George) and informed me that the wood was so thick it was almost impenetrable and that there was but little appearance of game; they had seen the track of one deer only and a few small grey squirrels.    〈with yellow th〉 these suirrels are about the size of the red squirrel of the lakes and eastern Atlantic States, their bellies are of a redish yellow, or tanners ooze colour the tale flat and as long as the body eyes black and moderately large back and sides of a greyish brown    the brier with a brown bark and three laves which put forth at the extremety of the twigs like the leaves of the blackbury brier, tho' is a kind of shrub and rises sometimes to the hight of 10 fe[et]    the green brier yet in leaf; the ash with a remarkable large leaf; the large black alder.   
  • December 1, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
March 31, 1806 - Clark, William
  • we overtook the man whome came to our Camp last night and Soon after we landed two canoes Came over from the opposit Side with 5 men & a woman    those people informed us that their relations who was with them last fall reside at the Great rapids (Columbia River, Cascades (Great Rapids, Great Shute)) , and were down with them last fall gathering Wappato which did not grow above, and also killing deer, that they Secured the bark of the houses which they then lived in against their return next fall.   
  • March 31, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 15, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the other part of their hair is dressed in the same manner as those of the rapids. after we landed and formed our camp this evening Drewyer (Drouillard, George) and some others took a hunt and killed a deer of the longtailed kind.    it was a buck and the young horns had shot fourth about 2 inches.— Just below the mouth of Klickitat River (Klickitat (Cataract) River) , in Klickitat County (Klickitat County, Wash.) , Washington (Washington) .
  • April 15, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 17, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Sheilds (Shields, John) had killed one deer which he brought with him.    the packsaddles were completed this evening.
  • April 17, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 11, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Geo. drewyer (Drouillard, George) arived with 2 deer which he had killed.    he informed us that the Snow Still Continued to cover the plains.
  • May 11, 1806
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  • Clark, William
May 12, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • Mr M'Kinzie (Mackenzie, Alexander) says of the information of the chief, who delineated for him a sketch of the river and country on a piece of bark, 'As far as his knowledge of the river extended, the country on either side was level, in many places without wood, and abounding in red deer, and some of the fallow kind.' "According to the verbal relation of Mr.
  • May 12, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
August 14, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • they have but few Elk or black tailed deer, and the common red deer they cannot take as they secrete themselves in the brush when pursued, and they have only the bow and arrow wich is a very slender dependence for killing any game except such as they can run down with their horses.
  • they informed me that there was no buffaloe on the West side of these mountains; that the game consisted of a few Elk deer and Antelopes, and that the natives subsisted on fish and roots principally.   
  • Joseph (Field, Joseph) and Reubin Fields (Field, Reubin) killed 4 deer and an Antelope, Capt. C. (Clark, William) killed a buck.    several of the men have lamed themselves by various accedents in working the canoes through this difficult part of the river, and Capt.
  • August 14, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 11, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • found the river shallow and rapid, insomuch that the men wer compelled to be in the water a considerable proportion of the day in drageing the canoes over the shoals and riffles. they saw a number of geese ducks beaver & otter, also some deer and antelopes.    the men killed a beaver with a seting pole and tommahawked several Otter.    the hunters killed 3 deer and an Antelope. Capt. C. (Clark, William) observed some bunches of privy near the river.   
  • August 11, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 3, 1806 - Clark, William
  • those people have Some words the Same with those below but the air of their language is entirely different, their men are Stouter and much better made, and their womin ware larger & longer robes than those do below; those are most commonly made of Deer Skins dressed with the hair of them.    they pay great attention to their aged Severall men and women whom I observed in this village had arived at a great age, and appeared to be helthy tho' blind.
  • Capt L (Lewis, Meriwether) had the flesh of the 4 Elk which was killed on the 1st inst. dried—    Some of the men of the nativs who visited Capt Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) wore a girdle, with a Small Skin in front and a Cap of the Skin of the deers head &c. This is the last daily entry in Clark's (Clark, William) Voorhis No. 2.
  • April 3, 1806
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  • Clark, William
July 27, 1806 - Clark, William
  • the antilopes are Scerce as also the bighorns and the deer    by no means So plenty as they were near the Rocky mountains (Rocky Mountains) .   
  • Shields (Shields, John) killed a Deer & a antilope to day for the Skins which the party is in want of for Clothes.   
  • July 27, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • It may be assumed that Drouillard, back with the other hunters after bagging four deer and an antelope, passed on Lewis's remarks in hand and body language, for he'd had ample practice at other gatherings.
  • By using nothing more than the sharp tip of a deer or elk horn, he noted, a warrior could chip an arrowhead out of flint "with a quickness and neatness that is really astonishing."
  • The low point came when Clark fired at a deer and heard the hammer click uselessly because of a loose flint—or so he wrote.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
July 20, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Pryor (Pryor, Nathaniel Hale) & Jo: Fields (Field, Joseph) brought in two Deer    river Still falling.    a large Spring ¾ me. below camp The July 20 entry and courses and distances are on one sheet (document 33) of the Field Notes, but they are in disordered fragments.
  • July 20, 1804
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  • Clark, William
August 24, 1804 - Clark, William
  • grows on a Scrub resembling a Damsen and is now fine and makes a Delightfull Tart    above this Bluff I took my Servent and a french boy I have and walked on Shore    I killed a Deer which york (York) Packed on his back    In the evening I Killed two Buck Elk and wounded two others which I could not pursue by the Blood as my ball was So Small 〈I〉 to bleed them well, my boys each Shot an elk—    it was late and I Crossed a Point Struck the river above and halted the boat and 12 men went out brought in the meat    all the after part of the day it rained    we are all wet.
  • August 24, 1804
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  • Clark, William
September 20, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Fields (Field, Reubin) Killed a Deer & 2 Goats one a female, which differs from the male as to Size being Something Smaller, Small Straight horns without any black about the neck    Camped late Codex B says two men; Ordway (Ordway, John) confirms this and says they were Drouillard (Drouillard, George) and Shields (Shields, John) .
  • September 20, 1804
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  • Clark, William
September 14, 1804 - Clark, William
  • McKey (Mackay, James)    I was Some distance out    Could not See any Signs of a Volcanoe, I killed a Goat, which is peculier to this Countrey about the hite of a Grown Deer Shorter, its horns Coms out immediately abov its eyes    broad 1 Short prong the other arched & Soft    the color is a light gray with black behind its ears, white round its neck, no beard, his Sides & belly white, and around its taile which is Small & white and Down its hams, actively made    his brains on the back of its head, his noisterals large, his eyes like a Sheep    only 2 hoofs on each foot no a[n]telrs (more like the antelope or gazella of Africa than any other Specis of Goat).
  • September 14, 1804
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  • Clark, William
October 13, 1804 - Clark, William
  • we Sent out hunters    Killed one Deer. We Tried the Prisoner Newmon (Newman, John) last night by 9 of his Peers they did "Centence him 75 Lashes & Disbanded the party."
  • October 13, 1804
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  • Clark, William
April 25, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the whol face of the country was covered with herds of Buffaloe, Elk & Antelopes; deer are also abundant, but keep themselves more concealed in the woodland.   
  • April 25, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
June 2, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Accordingly I walked on shore most of the day with some of the hunters for that purpose and killed 6 Elk 2 buffale 2 Mule deer and a bear.    these anamals were all in good order we therefore took as much of the meat as our canoes and perogues could conveniently carry.   
  • June 2, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
June 5, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • (Tower Mountain) which boar N. 65° W. 80 or 100 mes. distant    at the expiration of this course we killed five Elk and a blacktailed or mule deer and encamped on Stard. side of the river in a handsome well timbered bottom where there were several old stick lodges. in the forepart of the day there was but little timber in the river bottoms but the quantity is now greater than usual.   
  • June 5, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 25, 1805 - Clark, William
  • .—    we proceeded on over the mountains we had before passed to the Bluff we Encamped at on the 21s instant where we arrived late and turned out to hunt & fish, Cought Several Small fish, a party of Squars & one man with Several boys going down to guathe berries below, my guide got two Sammon from this party [(]which made about half a Supper for the party), after Dark Shannon (Shannon, George) came in with a beaver which the Party suped on Sumptiously—    one man verry Sick to day which detained us verry much    I had three hunters out all day, they saw one Deer, killed nothing.    one of the Party Saw 9 Elk on a Mountain to our right assending, amongst the Pine timber which is thick on that side Course & Distance Down Columbia (Columbia River) [EC: Lemhi (Lemhi (East Fork Lewis's) River) and Salmon (Salmon (Lewis's, Main Fork Lewis's, Southeast Fork of Columbia, West Fork Lewis's) River) ] river by Land, as I Decended &c.
  • August 25, 1805
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  • Clark, William
September 4, 1805 - Clark, William
  • groun covered with Snow, we assended a mountain & took a Divideing ridge which we kept for Several Miles & fell on the head of a Creek which appeared to run the Course we wished to go, I was in front, & Saw Several of the Argalia or Ibex decended the mountain by verry Steep decent takeing the advantage of the points and best places to the Creek, where our hunter killed a Deer which we made use of and prosued our Course down the Creek to the forks about 5 miles where we met a part of the 〈 Flat head (Flathead Indians) 〉 [X: Tushepau (Flathead Indians) ] nation of 33 Lodges about 80 men 400 Total and at least 500 horses, those people recved us friendly, threw white robes over our Sholders & Smoked in the pipes of peace, we Encamped with them & found them friendly but nothing but berries to eate a part of which they gave us, those Indians are well dressed with Skin Shirts & robes, they Stout & light complected more So than Common for Indians, The Chiefs harangued untill late at night, Smoked our pipe and appeared Satisfied.
  • September 4, 1805
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  • Clark, William
September 21, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Clark Thursday [NB: Saturday] 21st Septr. 1805 A fine morning    Sent out all the hunters in different directions to hunt deer, I myself delayd with the Chief to prevent Suspission and to Collect by Signs as much information as possible about the river and Countrey in advance.
  • September 21, 1805
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  • Clark, William
October 17, 1805 - Clark, William
  • the tail feathers 13 Inches long, feeds on grass hoppers, and the Seed of wild Isoop Those Indians are orderly, badly dressed in the Same fashions of those above except the women who wore Short Shirts and a flap over them    22 Fishing houses of Mats robes of Deer, Goat & Beaver. The Yakima River (Yakima (Tapteete) River) , "Tape-tett" on Atlas map 75, meeting the Columbia (Columbia River) at modern Richland (Richland, Wash.) , Benton County (Benton County, Wash.) , Washington (Washington) .
  • October 17, 1805
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  • Clark, William
November 30, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we now returned and asscended the inlet which we had last passd    no fresh appearance of Elk or deer in our rout so far.    asscend the inlet as we intended about 1 m. found it became much smaller and that it did not keep it's direction to the high land which boar S. 10 W. but inclined West.   
  • November 30, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
February 26, 1806 - Clark, William
  • the nativs make great use of the Skins of this animal in forming their robes, which they dress with the fur on them and attached together with the sinears of the Elk or Deer. I have never Seen the animale and can therefore only discribe it from the Skin and a Slight view which Some of our party have obtained of the liveing animal.   
  • February 26, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 7, 1806 - Clark, William
  • in the neighbourhood of the Chopunnish (Nez Perce Indians) under the Rocky Mountains (Rocky Mountains) we can precure a fiew deer, and perhaps a Bear or two for the Mountains. The day has been fair and weather exceedingly pleasent.   
  • April 7, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 14, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Pryor (Pryor, Nathaniel Hale) and they three hunters    they brought with them 4 deer which drewyer had killed yesterday.    we took brackfast and departed at 9 A.
  • April 14, 1806
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  • Clark, William
May 14, 1806 - Clark, William
  • after the baggage was over to the North Side we Crossed our horss without much trouble and hobbled them in the bottom after which we moved a Short distance below to a convenient Situation and formed a Camp around a very conveniant Spot for defence where the Indiands had formerly a house under ground and hollow circler Spot of about 30 feet diamieter 4 feet below the Serfce and a Bank of 2 feet above this Situation    we Concluded would be Seffiently convenient to hunt the wood lands for bear & Deer and for the Salmon fish which we were told would be here in a fiew days and also a good Situation for our horses.   
  • May 14, 1806
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  • Clark, William

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