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October 2, 1804 - Clark, William
  • the after part of this day is pleasent, at 2 oClock opposit a wood on the L. S. we observed some Indians on a hill on the S. S.    one Came down to the river opposit to us and fired off his gun, & beckind. to us to Come too, we payed no attention to him    he followed on Some distance, we Spoke a few words to him, he wished us to go a Shore and to his Camp which was over the hill and Consisted of 20 Lodges, we excused our Selves advised him to go and here our talk of Mr.
  • here we expected the Tetons (Sioux Indians, Teton) would attempt to Stop us and under that idear we prepared our Selves for action which we expected every moment.   
  • October 2, 1804
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  • Clark, William
January 9-10, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • .—    Some of the Natives came to our Fort, bringing with them one of their Nation, that was frost bitten—    They told the Officers, that they had went out on the 9th instant into the Priari to hunt, & had this Indian with them, but the weather was so Cold that he gave out, and they were forced to leave him behind.—    Some of his friends with his father went out this morning, in search of him, expecting to have found him froze to death.—    On their arrival at the place, that they had left him they found that he had come too, and had walked to where there was thick Woods, & broke some branches off the Trees, on which they found him lying 〈on〉, His feet was very much bit by the frost, but his life was Spared.    Captain Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) afforded this Indian what medical Aid lay in his power.—    Some of our hunters went hunting and staid out all Night.— A separate entry for January 10 is missing in the original version, but the events of the day seem to be included here.
  • January 9-10, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
February 5-13, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • Gass Tuesday 5th. We proceeded on to some Indian camps and there we killed three deer. The next day we went on to more Indian camps and killed some deer.
  • February 5-13, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
June 19, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • The wind blew violently the greater part of the day.    the Indian woman (Sacagawea) was much better this morning    she walked out and gathered a considerable quantity of the white apples of which she eat so heartily in their raw state, together with a considerable quantity of dryed fish without my knowledge that she complained very much and her fever again returned.
  • After dark my dog barked very much and seemed extreemly uneasy which was unusual with him; I ordered the sergt. of the guard to reconniter with two men, thinking it possible that some Indians might be about to pay us a visit, or perhaps a white bear; he returned soon after & reported that he believed the dog had been baying a buffaloe bull which had attempted to swim the river just above our camp but had been beten down by the stream landed a little below our camp on the same side & run off.
  • June 19, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 2, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • we proceeded on    passed large beautiful bottom prarie on each Side, & bottoms of timber.    Saw a nomber of old Indian Camps.    the beaver houses are verry pleanty & ponds where they resort.   
  • We saw in those bottoms, a number of Indian Camps which appear'd to have been built some time, & plenty of Houses built by the beaver, & a large pond where those animals resort to, We continued on, & saw a number of small Islands & bottoms, The River getting more shallow; Some level Priaries lying on both sides of the River.—    In the afternoon we saw 2 large Grey Eagles, whose nests we saw on the tops of high Trees which were dead.—    We came 14¾ miles this day, & encamped on a smooth plain lying on the South side of the River, where we saw a Gang of Elk, back of our Camp under some hills.—    The Country this day lying back from the River, is broken, and Mountaneous.—
  • August 2, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
August 6, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • Several men went out a Short distance to hunt. Some of them Saw a large Indian path, or road along the plain. George Drewyer (Drouillard, George) came to us and Informed us that we were on the wrong fork that we could not go far up this for the Sholes & rapids & that their was 3 forks in this valley and the middle one was the best for us to go up.   
  • we blew the horn and fired Several guns in hopes he would hear it.    the Indian goods &C did not all git dry this evening. They had missed a note from Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) to this effect; the note had been carried off by a beaver.
  • August 6, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
August 7, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Indian (Turf) Creek (Mont.)
  • Side above the mouth of a bold running Stream 12 yards wide, which we call turf Creek (Indian (Turf) Creek (Mont.)) from the number of bogs & quanty of turf in its waters.   
  • August 7, 1805
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  • Clark, William
August 7, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • we unloaded one of the Small canoes and halled it out in a grove of cotton trees and leave hir here.    we put the Indian goods &c. to git throully dry.    Capt. Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) took an observation & Shot the air gun.   
  • Wednesday August 7th    A Clear cool morning, We sent one of our party out to hunt & unloaded one of our small Canoes, & hawled it out in a Grove of Cotton trees, as we intend leaving her here.    The Indian Goods &ca—    were all put out, in order to get thoroughly dry.—    Captain Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) took an observation at this place & found it to lay in Latitude 45° 22' 34S North, he also fired off his air gun several times in order that the Man that went out a hunting from the party that was with Captain Clarke (Clark, William) up the North fork Yesterday & who we suppose is lost might hear the report, he having as yet not returned.   
  • August 7, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
September 26, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • they ran fast on a Shole place about the middle of the River opposite our Camp, and came out to See us.    Some Indians came down from our last nights Camp in a canoe with Sammon &c.   
  • They came to the Shore in Order to see us, some of the Indians also came down with a Canoe from the place where we had encamped last night; they brought with them some Salmon, Root bread &ca.   
  • September 26, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
October 15, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Clark October 15th 〈Monday〉 Tuesday 1805 Indian Groups of the Columbia River (Columbia River) Basin, ca. October 15, 1805, Elkskin-bound Journal Missouri Historical Society a fair morning after a Cold night.
  • here we found our Pilot & one man wate- ing for us to Show us the 〈rout〉 best way thro those rapids, the evening cool, we saw no timber to day, except Small willow & Srub of Hackberry—    Killed 2 Teel this evening.   20   Opposite this entry in the Elkskin-bound Journal is a sketch map (fig. 13) of Indian groups of the Columbia River (Columbia River) basin. Neither the tribal names nor geographic locations can be determined with any confidence.
  • October 15, 1805
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  • Clark, William
October 7, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Side at 9 miles, 〈a run at〉 a Short distanc from the river at 2 feet 4 Inches N. of a dead toped pine Treee had burid 2 Lead Canisters of Powder Had the Canoes unloaded examined and mended a Small leake which we discovered in a thin place in her Side    passed Several 〈old〉 Camps of Indians to day our Course and distance Shall be given after I get to the forks. &c.— which the Indians Say is the last of the bad water untill we get to the great falls 10 day below, where the white people live &c.
  • October 7, 1805
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  • Clark, William
October 16, 1805 - Clark, William
  • (Columbia River) in the Point Stard Passed the rapid opposit the upper Point of the Said Island and Passed a Small Isd. on Lard Side opposit, passed the lower point of the Island on Stard Side at 2 ½ miles    a gravelley bare in the river at 3 miles, river wide    Countrey on each side low, a rainge of hills on the west imedeately in front of the opposit side of Columbia (Columbia River) We halted a Short time above the Point and Smoked with the Indians, & examined the Point and best place for our Camp, we Camped on the Columbia River (Columbia River) a little above the point    I Saw about 200 men Comeing down from their villages & were turned back by the Chief, after we built our fires of what wood we Could Collect, & get from the Indians, the Chief brought down all his men Singing and dancing as they Came, formed a ring and danced for Some time around us    we gave them a Smoke, and they returned the village a little above, the Chief & Several delay untill I went to bead.   
  • October 16, 1805
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  • Clark, William
November 3, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • towards evening we met several Indians in canoes    they Signed to us that their was Some white people and vessells &C.   
  • we came 13 miles this day and Camped on a verry large Island which is mostly prarie and large ponds, which is full of Swan Geese brants and ducks &C. Several Indians Camped with us.    at Sunset we got a small canoe and carried in the pond    Several Swan geese and brants killed by the party to day and this evening.— Collins (Collins, John) , according to Clark (Clark, William) .
  • November 3, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
February 9, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Lewis Sunday February 9th 1806 This morning Collins (Collins, John) and Wiser (Weiser, Peter) set out on a hunting excurtion; the[y] took our Indian canoe and passed the Netul (Lewis and Clark (Fort, Netul) River) a little above us.   
  • he saw one black bear, which is the only one which has been seen in this neighbourhood since our arrival; the Indians inform us that they are abundant but are now in their holes.
  • February 9, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 9, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • we crossed over to the North Side & halted at a village of the wa-cla-lah (Watlala Indians) nation where we bought 5 or 6 fat dogs.    found Capt. Clarks (Clark, William) pipe tommahawk which was Stole from him last fall, below Quick Sand River (Sandy (Quicksand) River) .   
  • Some Spots of Snow is now on the tops of these Mountains Near the River. Watlala Chinookans (Watlala Indians) , whose village was in the vicinity of Skamania (Skamania, Wash.) , Skamania County (Skamania County, Wash.) , Washington (Washington) , which the group visited on November 2, 1805.
  • April 9, 1806
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  • Ordway, John
May 17, 1806 - Clark, William
  • at the Same time Snowed on the mountains which is in to the S. E. of us.    no Indians visit us to day which is a Singular circumstance as we have not been one day without Indians Since we left the long narrows of the Columbia (Columbia River, The Dalles of the (Great Narrows)) .   
  • May 17, 1806
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  • Clark, William
July 6, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • At 1 o'clock we proceeded on, passed a number of handsome streams which fall into the river, and a number of old Indian lodges. As we advance the valley becomes more extensive, and is all plain.
  • Note that Gass's (Gass, Patrick) version of the Nez Perce (Nez Perce Indians) name used on July 3 is now more like Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) .
  • July 6, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
September 23, 1806 - Clark, William
  • William Christy (Christy, William) , born in Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania) , moved to Kentucky (Kentucky) as a boy, where he was a neighbor of Clark's (Clark, William) family, and served in the campaigns against the Indians north of the Ohio (Ohio River) under Generals Arthur St. Clair (St.
  • Later he was secretary of the land claims commission (see September 20, 1806), fought Indians again in the War of 1812, and was the first auditor of public accounts of the new state of Missouri (Missouri) .
  • September 23, 1806
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  • Clark, William
June 9, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • today we examined our maps, and compared the information derived as well from them as from the Indians and fully settled in our minds the propryety of addopting the South fork (Gallatin (South, Southeast Fork) River) for the Missouri (Missouri River) , as that which it would be most expedient for us to take.
  • The Indian information also argued strongly in favour of the South fork (Gallatin (South, Southeast Fork) River) .   
  • the traders of the Missouri (Missouri River) , particularly those engaged in the trade with the Siouxs (Sioux Indians) are obliged to have frequent recourse to this method in order to avoyd being robed.   
  • June 9, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
November 17, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • In the evening the remaining hunter came in and had killed another deer. There are but few Indians settled down about the seashore; their dress is similar to that of some of those above.
  • The people immediately at the river mouth on the north side were Chinooks (Chinook Indians) , who have given their name to the Chinookan (Chinook Indians) language.
  • Lolo Creek (Lolo (Travelers' Rest) Creek (Mont.)) , Missoula County (Missoula County, Mont.) , Montana (Montana) Flathead (Flathead Indians) [Nez Perce (Nez Perce Indians) ] village Weippe Prairie (Weippe Prairie (Camas Flats, Quawmash Flats)) , Clearwater County (Clearwater County, Idaho) , Idaho (Idaho) Kooskooske (Clearwater (Flathead, Kooskooskee) River) River Clearwater River (Clearwater (Flathead, Kooskooskee) River) , Clearwater County (Clearwater County, Idaho) Canoe Camp (Canoe Camp (Idaho)) Near Orofino (Orofino, Idaho) , Clearwater County (Clearwater County, Idaho) Kimoocenem (Tucannon River (Ki-moo-e-nim Creek)) Tucannon River (Tucannon River (Ki-moo-e-nim Creek)) , Columbia County (Columbia County, Wash.) , Washington (Washington) Columbia (Columbia River) Columbia River (Columbia River) Shoshone or Snake River (Deschutes (Clark's, Towanahiook's) River) Deschutes River (Deschutes (Clark's, Towanahiook's) River) Great Falls of Columbia (Columbia River, Great Falls of the) Celilo Falls (Columbia River, Great Falls of the) , Klickitat County (Klickitat County, Wash.) , Washington (Washington) -Wasco County (Wasco County, Oreg.) , Oregon (Oregon) Short Narrows (Short (Little) Narrows) The Dalles of the Columbia (Columbia River, The Dalles of the (Great Narrows)) , Klickitat County (Klickitat County, Wash.)
  • November 17, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
June 10, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • thence due North 5 m. to the Eastern border of the quawmash flatts (Weippe Prairie (Camas Flats, Quawmash Flats)) where we encamped near the place we first met with the Chopunnish (Nez Perce Indians) last fall.    the pass of Collins's Creek (Lolo (Collins's) Creek (Idaho)) was deep and extreemly difficult tho' we passed without sustaining further injury than weting some of our roots and bread.   
  • They were about a mile southeast of the first Indian village they had come to when meeting the Nez Perces (Nez Perce Indians) on September 20, 1805.
  • The second could be poison ivy, R. radicans L., which occurs at lower elevations around Camp Chopunnish (Nez Perce Indians) . Since this plant was certainly known to the men, it is curious that it is not named specifically.
  • June 10, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
June 26, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • on South Side of the Missouris (Missouri River) , Several nations of Indians up this River,
  • June 26, 1804
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  • Ordway, John
August 12, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • S. is low    the Timber cottenwood & large willows, & Subject to overflow, (Grapes &.C. in abundance[)]    we heard a prarie woolf bark on the bank N. S.    it resembled our Indian dogs.—    we Camped on a Sand bar S. Side of the Missourie River (Missouri River) ,— Eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana L.
  • August 12, 1804
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  • Ordway, John
October 16, 1804 - Gass, Patrick
  • In the evening a short time before we encamped, we met with another hunting party of the Rickarees (Arikara Indians) . They had a flock of goats, or antelopes, in the river, and killed upwards of forty of them.
  • October 16, 1804
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  • Gass, Patrick
October 17, 1804 - Gass, Patrick
  • We renewed our voyage early, and had a clear morning. Last night eight of the Indians came over to see us, brought us some meat and remained all night.
  • October 17, 1804
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  • Gass, Patrick
October 23, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • we Set off eairly.    about 9 o.C. we passed the Indian Camp N. S. where the 2 frenchman was Robed a fiew days ago, they had left their Camp.   
  • October 23, 1804
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  • Ordway, John
November 15, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Clark 15th of November Thursday 1804 a Cloudy morning, the ice run much thicker than yesterday    at 10 oClock G Drewyer (Drouillard, George) & the frenchman we Dispatched yesterday came up from the Hunters, who is incamped about 30 miles below—    after a about one hour we Dispatched a man with orders to the hunters to proceed on without Delay thro the floating ice, we Sent by the man Tin, to put on the parts of the Perogue exposed to the ice & a toe roape—    The wind Changeable— all hands work at their huts untill 1 oClock at night—    Swans passing to the South—    but fiew fowls water to be Seen—    not one Indian Came to our fort to day
  • November 15, 1804
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  • Clark, William
December 6, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Legins of Goat Skin & a Buffalow robe, 14 ring of Brass on his fingers, this metel [NB: ornaments] the Mandans (Mandan Indians) ar verry fond off—    Cold after noon    river rise 1½ Inch to day
  • December 6, 1804
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  • Clark, William
January 9, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • we expected nothing else but the other man had froze or would freeze this night.    a young Indian came in the Garrison with his feet frost bit. Several of the Savages Stayed in the fort all night.
  • January 9, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
March 28, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Clark [March 28, 1805] 29th    the ice Stoped running owing to Some obstickle above    all prepareing to Set out    but few Indians visit us to day    they are watching to catch the floating Buffalow which brake through the ice in Crossing, those people are fond of those animals ta[i]nted and Catch great numbers every Spring Under this entry and the next in the Field Notes (reverse of document 64) is a drawing in red crayon (see figure), showing a man smoking a pipe and holding a firearm.
  • March 28, 1805
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  • Clark, William
June 9, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • we unloaded the red perogue, & put out the Indian Goods &.C. to air.    2 of the hunters went out in the plains and killed the fattest buffalow that we have killed this year.   
  • June 9, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
August 5, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) thought it would be best for me and one of the interpreters to go over to the west branch, and remain there, until he and the other should go higher up the north, cross over in search of Indians and then go down and join us. At night they came to our camp, but had not seen any of the natives, nor any fresh signs.
  • August 5, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
December 15, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • Some light showers fell during the day; and at night 3 Indians came to our camp, and brought us two large salmon.
  • December 15, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
December 20, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Clark December 20th Friday 1805 Some rain and hail last night and this morning it rained hard untill 10 oClock, men all employd Carrying Punchens and Covering Cabins 4 of which we had Covered, & Set Some to Dobing—    the after part of the day Cloudy and Some Showers of rain. 3 Indians came with Lickorish Sackacomie berries & mats to Sell, for which they asked Such high prices that we did not purchase any of them,—    Those people ask double & tribble the value of everry thing they have to Sell, and never take less than the full value of any thing, they prise only Blue & white beeds, files fish hooks and Tobacco—    Tobacco and Blue beeds principally
  • December 20, 1805
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  • Clark, William
February 19, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • we got on the coast crossd. a river where we waided to our middles and was glad to git in an old Indian house where we made a fire and Stayed all night. Sand flew & waves rold.
  • February 19, 1806
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  • Ordway, John
March 13, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • Drewyer (Drouillard, George) Sent to the Clatsop (Clatsop Indians) village in order to purchase a canoe. I went with Six more of the party after the meat of an Elk.
  • March 13, 1806
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  • Ordway, John
May 26, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • The Field brothers (Field, Joseph and Reubin) ; Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) and Clark (Clark, William) note that they were accompanied by Hohots Ilppilp (Hohots Ilppilp) and other Nez Perces (Nez Perce Indians) .
  • May 26, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
June 23, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • The most of the hunters turned out again a hunting and killed two deer    in the afternoon Drewyer (Drouillard, George) Shannon (Shannon, George) & Whitehouse (Whitehouse, Joseph) returned with the young chief and 2 other Indians who has engaged to go over the mountains as guides for us &C.   
  • June 23, 1806
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  • Ordway, John
July 17, 1806 - Clark, William
  • I Saw in one of those Small bottoms which I passed this evening an Indian fort which appears to have been built last Summer.    this fort was built of logs and bark.   
  • Thomas James (James, Thomas) describes one used by Crows (Crow Indians) on the Yellowstone (Yellowstone River) in 1810, and Henry Brackenridge (Brackenridge, H. M.) mentions an Arikara (Arikara Indians) one in 1811. Ewers (ILUM), 117–30; James, 49; Brackenridge (Brackenridge, H.
  • July 17, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 6, 1804 - Clark, William
  • he has been absent three Days and one french man we Sent to the Indian Camps has not joined us, we have reasons to beleve he lost himself in attempting to join us at the Council Bluff— (Council Bluff (Nebr.))    we are deturmind to Send back 4 men to take reede Dead or alive, also hunt La Liberty (La Liberté) and to meet us at the Mahar (Omaha Indians) nation as Soon as the order is executed.
  • The name probably derives from the French trader's term soldier for members of Indian warrior societies, who often kept order in camp and protected traders.
  • August 6, 1804
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  • Clark, William
October 18, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Side about 140 yards Wide, and heads near the Black Mountains (Black Hills)    above the mouth of this River, in and at the foot of the Bluff, and in the water is a number of round Stones, resembling Shells and Cannon balls of Different Sises, and of excellent grit for Grindstons—    the Bluff continus for about a mile, The water of this River is confined within 40 yards—    we met 2 french men in a Canoe, who informed us they wer trapping near the mandans and were robed of 4 Traps, & part of their Skins and Several other articles by Indians he took to be Mandans (Mandan Indians)    those men return with us, Saw emence numbers of Goats all Day S.
  • Dak.) , North Dakota (North Dakota) . In Arikara (Arikara Indians) it is čiwáhtš , "fish." Atlas map 27; MRC map 48.
  • October 18, 1804
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  • Clark, William
October 20, 1805 - Clark, William
  • October 20, 1805, Elkskin-bound Journal Missouri Historical Society a very cold morning    wind S. W.    about 100 Indians Came over this morning to See us, after a Smoke, a brackfast on Dogs flesh we Set out. about 350 men West   6 miles to a Std. bend head of a rapd    passed the Island at 1 mile 3 Indns.
  • Several small Isd.—    on the Lard. good water.    passed an Indian fishing Camp of 4 Lodges de- serted, fish hanging on Scaffels (Saw great numbers of Pel- icans & Comerants, black)    To a Lard.
  • passed 3 Islands nearly opposit, 2 furst on the Stard. Side    Indians encd. [encamped] on each Island. we Came to at Some Camps on the lower point of the 1st & dined.   
  • October 20, 1805
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  • Clark, William
January 6, 1806 - Clark, William
  • I sat out with 12 men in 2 Canoes to around thro: the bay and up a Creek to an old landing at which place the Indians have a roade aross thro Shashes West    I landed made the Canoes fast and Set put up the Cree on a road    passed thro 3 Stashes to a pond, then up & around th bend along a bad thick way, took an Indian path which took us to a Creek which runs into the Sand bay at which place we found a Canoe which took over 3 men at a time    crossed and on the top of a rise Saw Elk    prosued & Killed one and encamped at the forks of a Creek    the West    Eate th Elk all up.   
  • Except for the last, these may have been items taken along as Indian presents or for trade. Finally two columns of figures and these random jottings appear on the cover: "Boate, Beautiful, Elegant, neat, 15–4." 3560   154   428   165 3988   319   144 3560 4132   889 Clark (Clark, William) camped at the forks of his "Ne-er ca wen a ca" River (Neacoxie (Neercawanaca) Creek) , probably today's Neacoxie Creek (Neacoxie (Neercawanaca) Creek) , but not quite like Clark's (Clark, William) geographic description.
  • January 6, 1806
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  • Clark, William
February 22, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • We were visited today by two Clatsop (Clatsop Indians) women and two boys who brought a parsel of excellent hats made of Cedar bark and ornamented with beargrass.   
  • in the evening they returned to their village and Drewyer (Drouillard, George) accompanied them in their canoe in order to get the dogs which the Clatsops (Clatsop Indians) have agreed to give us in payment for the Elk they stole from us some weeks since.   
  • there is no wooll on a small part of the body behind the sholders on each side of the brisquit which is covered with a short fine hairs as in the domestic sheep. form the signs which the Indians make in discribing this animal they have herect pointed horns, tho' one of our Engages La Page (Lepage, Jean Baptiste) , assures us that he saw them in the black hills (Black Hills) where the little Missouri (Little Missouri (E-mâh-tark',-Ah'-zhah) River) passes them, and that they were in every rispect like the domestic sheep, and like them the males had lunated horns bent backwards and twisted.
  • February 22, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 17, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • (Clark, William) informed me that he should proceed as far as the Eneshur (Tenino Indians) village today and would return tomorrow and join me at the Skillute (Watlala Indians) village to which place I mean to proceed with the party tomorrow.
  • delay in the villages at the narrows and falls will be expensive to us inasmuch as we will be compelled to purchase both fuel and food of the indians, and might the better enable them to execute any hostile desighn should they meditate any against us.—    all the hunters returned in the evening.
  • April 17, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 16, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Drewyer's (Drouillard, George) horse left his camp last night and was brought to us this morning by an indian who informed us he had found him a considerable distance towards the mountains.
  • a little after dark Shannon (Shannon, George) and Labuish (Labiche, François) returned with one deer; they informed us that game was wild and scarce, that a large creek (Collins' Creek (Lolo (Collins's) Creek (Idaho)) ) ran parallel with the river at the distance of about 5 or 6 miles which they found impracticable to pass with their horses in consequence of the debth and rapidity of it's current.    beyond this creek the Indians inform us that there is great abundance of game. Sergt. Pryor (Pryor, Nathaniel Hale) and Collins (Collins, John) who set out this morning on a hunting excurtion did not return this evening.—    I killed a snake near our camp, it is 3 feet 11 Inches in length, is much the colour of the rattlesnake common to the middle atlantic states, it has no poisonous teeth.   
  • A pressed specimen collected on April 25, 1806, has the label: "A species of fennel root eaten by the Indians, of an annis taste; flowers white, Columbia River (Columbia River) ."
  • May 16, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 13, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • these people have immence numbers of them    50, 60 or a hundred hed is not unusual for an individual to possess. The Chopunnish (Nez Perce Indians) are in general stout well formed active men.    they have high noses and many of them on the acqueline order with cheerfull and agreeable countenances; their complexions are not remarkable.   
  • these are formed of various skins and are in all rispects like those particularly discribed of the Shoshones (Shoshone Indians) .    their women also dress like the Shoshones (Shoshone Indians) .   
  • May 13, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 24, 1806 - Clark, William
  • This disposition in the horses is no doubt owing to their being frequently exercised in chasing different animals by their former owners the Indians as it is their Custom to chase every Speces of wild animal with horses, for which purpose they train all their horses.
  • passed an }   4   old indian fort of logs and bark on a Island Close to   Lard Side N. 46° E to a Bluff in a Stard.
  • Clark (Clark, William) may have obtained the name "The Lodge where all dance" (which he gave Biddle (Biddle, Nicholas) for the interlineation) from the Mandans (Mandan Indians) or Hidatsas (Hidatsa Indians) on returning to their villages in August 1806.
  • July 24, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 8, 1804 - Clark, William
  • (Wood (Pelican) Island)    Cap Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) Killed one    This river Soux (Little Sioux (Ye-yeau War-da-pon) River) Called by the Sueoux (Sioux Indians) Eá-Neah Wau-de-pon i'e Stone R (Little Sioux (Ye-yeau War-da-pon) River) heads in three Leagues of the river Demoin (Des Moines River) , and passes thro a Lake about 20 Legues in Sircfs.
  • Nicollet notes that the Sioux (Sioux Indians) name implies a rock somewhere along its length. (See note 4 below.)
  • Douglas R. Parks gives the Sioux (Sioux Indians) word as Iŋyaŋ yaŋke watpa, or "Rock River (Little Sioux (Ye-yeau War-da-pon) River) ."
  • August 8, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
June 16, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I reached the camp     found the Indian woman (Sacagawea) extreemly ill and much reduced by her indisposition.    this gave me some concern as well for the poor object herself, then with a young child in her arms, as from the consideration of her being our only dependence for a friendly negociation with the Snake (Shoshone Indians) Indians on whom we depend for horses to assist us in our portage from the Missouri (Missouri River) to the columbia River (Columbia River) .
  • one of the small canoes was left below this rappid in order to pass and repass the river for the purpose of hunting as well as to procure the water of the Sulpher spring (Sulphur (Sacagawea) Springs) , the virtues of which I now resolved to try on the Indian woman (Sacagawea) .    this spring is situated about 200 yards from the Missouri (Missouri River) on the N.
  • June 16, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether

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