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The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • The Indians there still held title to hundreds of thousands of acres that white tillers of the soil were eyeing with increasing covetousness.
  • Louisiana might end this impasse. Let the Indians who wanted to retain their hunting culture swap Eastern lands for others beyond the Mississippi.
  • Could so many people be readily uprooted and moved out of the country for the sake of the Indians? Was it his business to make suggestions after collecting more data?
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
Great Plains Quarterly 17.3–4 (1997): 165–84.
  • The long pause at the Marias, maintains Allen, was due to "the failure of the Indians to mention the outliers of the Rockies or to tell them about the Marias River."
  • I have put down the Rivers & in the Indian Names, which is black feet & have translated all that I was capable of into English in the Indian map.
  • Ronda, Lewis and Clark among the Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984); James P. Ronda, "`A Chart in his Way':Indian Cartography and the Lewis and Clark Expedition," in Mapping the North American Plains, ed.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Barbara Belyea
May 16, 1804 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • its Inhabitants are chiefly canadian french; who are chiefly concerned & employed by others Trading with the Indians who reside on the River Mesouri (Missouri River) , and other Rivers that empty into it.   
  • May 16, 1804
  • Journals
  • Whitehouse, Joseph
June 16, 1804 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • Over in QuickSand Saturday June 16th    We left the little Indian town called the Zoe (Gumbo Point site) , early this morning; this Town is situated on a Priari of the same Name, This Priari is very large it running from the banks of the River many miles, back, The wind rose from the South East; and we setall our Sails, we found the current running very Strong    towards the evening, the wind lull'd & died away.   
  • June 16, 1804
  • Journals
  • Whitehouse, Joseph
July 5, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • we Swam the white horse a cross this River, proceeded on for two miles under the bank where the old Kansas (Kansa Indians) Town formerly Stood (Say in 1724)    the cause of those people moveing from this place we cannot learn, but naturly conclude that war has reduced their nation and compelled them to retire further into the plains with a view of Defending themselves.
  • July 5, 1804
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
August 6, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • who went back on 4th ult has not returned yet nor La Liberty (La Liberté) who went for the Indians has not returned    we expect he got lost attempting to come to us from the nation but we have all reason to think that Reed (Reed, Moses B.)
  • August 6, 1804
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
August 20, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • Monday 20th    pleasant, we Set of under a gentle Breeze from S. E.    the Indians chiefs Set out to return to their village. Sgt. Floyd (Floyd, Charles) worse than he was yesterday    we Sailed on verry well till noon when we came too on S.
  • August 20, 1804
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
December 7, 1804 - Clark, William
  • . & H Bay Clerks Visit us 〈on〉 the 16th    also Mr Hainey (Heney, Hugh) , Cold Tem: 74° below freesing— I visit the Mandans (Mandan Indians) on the 1s of January    Capt Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) the 2nd— Here again Clark (Clark, William) has run together brief entries for various dates under one heading on document 64 of the Field Notes, indicating a perfunctory keeping of his Field Notes while the notebook journal, Codex C, was kept each day.
  • December 7, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
May 1, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Shields Sick with rhumetism—    one of the men (Shannon (Shannon, George) ) Shot a Gull or pleaver, which is about the Size of an Indian hen, with a Sharp pointed bill turning up & 4 Inches long, the head and neck of a light brown, the breast, the underfeathers of the 2nd and 3d joint of the wings, the Short feathers on the upper part of the 3rd joint of the wings, down the back the rump & tail white.
  • May 1, 1805
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  • Clark, William
June 22, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • we are a little South of the Mandans (Mandan Indians) but have had cold weather as yet.    it must of course be a healthy country.   
  • June 22, 1805
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
July 16, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • passed a large creek on S. S. Saw large Indian Camps on N. S. back of the bottoms in the edge of the Smooth plains.   
  • July 16, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
August 4, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) had left & his camp yesterday morning, letting us know that if he found no Indians or fresh Sign by this evening he would return a fiew miles back & hunt till we come up.   
  • August 4, 1805
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
September 20, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • a cold frosty morning    we found a handful or 2 of Indian peas and a little bears oil which we brought with us    we finished the last morcil of it and proceeded on half Starved and very weak.   
  • September 20, 1805
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
October 15, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • We went 18 miles this evening and halted at an old Indian camp on the north side, where we had great difficulty in procuring wood to cook with, as none at all grows in this part of the country.
  • October 15, 1805
  • Journals
  • Gass, Patrick
October 23, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • We got several dogs from these Indians, which we find strong wholesome diet. The high water mark below the falls is 48 feet, and above only 10 feet four inches from the surface of the water: so that in high water there is nothing but a rapid, and the salmon can pass up without difficulty.
  • October 23, 1805
  • Journals
  • Gass, Patrick
November 18, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • Captain Clark (Clark, William) , 2 Serjeants & eight of our Men set out in Order to go down to Cape disappointment (Cape Disappointment) , (the Name of the Cape) in Order to get a satisfactory View of the Ocean &ca. The Indians came to our Camp, from whom we purchased some dry Salmon.    Towards evening our hunters returned to our Camp; they had killed One Deer, 2 brants & a squirrel & also a large fish called Flounder, which they brought with 〈us〉 them to our Camp.—    Our officers named this Cape Cape disappointment (Cape Disappointment) on account of not finding Vessells there.— According to Clark (Clark, William) , the sergeants were Ordway (Ordway, John) and Pryor (Pryor, Nathaniel Hale) , and the men were Charbonneau (Charbonneau, Toussaint) , Joseph (Field, Joseph) and Reubin Field (Field, Reubin) , Shannon (Shannon, George) , Colter (Colter, John) , Weiser (Weiser, Peter) , Labiche (Labiche, François) , and York (York) .
  • November 18, 1805
  • Journals
  • Whitehouse, Joseph
November 20, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • Captain Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) gave one of the Indians who had encamped near us a Medal.    One of our hunters went out & killed two deer & several Brants.   
  • November 20, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
November 25, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Clark November 25th Munday 1805 a fine day    Several Indians Come up from below, we loaded and Set out up the river, and proceeded on to the Shallow Bay (Grays (Shallow) Bay) , landed to dine, The Swells too high to cross the river, agreeabley to our wish which is to examine if the game Can be precured Sufficent for us to winter on that Side, ater dinner which was on Drid pounded fish we proceeded on up on the North Side to near the place of our Encampment of the 7th Instant and encamped after night    The evening cloudy wind of to day Generally from the E S.
  • November 25, 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
December 16, 1805 - Clark, William
  • wind violent from the S E trees falling, rian and hail, we with Some risque proceeded on thro the high waves in the river, a tempestious disagreeable day. I found 3 indians at our Camp, they brought fish to Sell which were pore & not fit for use, had the meet house coverd and the meat all hung up, Several men complain of haveing hurt themselves heavy loads of meat.
  • December 16, 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
January 1, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) and my Self each a marrow bone and tongue on which we Suped—    we are visited to day by a fiew of the Clatsops (Clatsop Indians) by water    they brought some roots and berries for the purpose of tradeing with us.   
  • January 1, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
May 13, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • a number of the natives followed us    we Swapped Several horses with them. The Indian hand game again. Down the north bank of Lawyer Creek (Lawyer (Commearp) Creek) , Lewis County (Lewis County, Idaho) , Idaho (Idaho) .
  • May 13, 1806
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
June 12, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • in the evening they resumed their hunt and remained out all night.    an indian visited us this evening and spent the night at our camp. Whitehouse (Whitehouse, Joseph) returned with his horse at 1 P.
  • June 12, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 7, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • I and the 4 men went out in different directions to look for the 9 horses    I and Labuiche (Labiche, François) went up a valley which led in the mountn. towards the ShoShones (Shoshone Indians) nation.    got on the track of the horses and followed it on untill towards evening and found them still going on an Indn. road.   
  • July 7, 1806
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
September 17, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • He intends to discharge his men on this side of the mountain, and to get some of the Ponis (Pawnee Indians) , who live on the river Platte (Platte River (Nebr.)) to accompany him to the Spanish country.
  • September 17, 1806
  • Journals
  • Gass, Patrick
July 30, 1806 - Clark, William
  • W. obliged us to land imediately below this rapid, draw up the Canoes and take Shelter in an old Indian Lodge above the enterance of a river which is nearly dry    it has laterly been very high and Spread over nearly ¼ a mile in width. its Chanel is 88 yards and in this there is not more water than could pass through an inch auger hole.
  • [NB: By a coincidence I found the Indian name Wa ha Sah (Powder (Wah-har-sah, Redstone) River) ]    as the water was disagreeably muddy I could not Camp on that Side below its mouth.   
  • Much of the clinker comes from the area along the Powder River (Powder (Wah-har-sah, Redstone) River) nearly due east of Miles City (Miles City, Mont.) . The Indian name, presumably learned from the Mandans (Mandan Indians) or Hidatsas (Hidatsa Indians) , is "War-rah-sash (Powder (Wah-har-sah, Redstone) River) " in Fort Mandan (Fort Mandan (N.
  • July 30, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
August 25, 1804 - Clark, William
  • where we left the Perogue with two men and at 200 yards we assended a riseing ground of about Sixty feet, from the top of this High land the Countrey is leavel & open as far as Can be Seen, except Some few rises at a Great Distance, and the Mound which the Indians Call Mountain of little people or Spirits (Spirit Mound)    this mound appears of a Conic form & is N. 20° W. from the mouth of the Creek, we left the river at 8 oClock, at 4 miles we Crossed the Creek 23 yards wide in an extensive Valley and continued on    at two miles further our Dog was So Heeted & fatigued we was obliged Send him back to the Creek, at 12 oClock we arrived at the hill    Capt Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) much fatigued from heat the day it being verry hot & he being in a debilitated State from the Precautions he was obliged to take to provent the affects of the Cobalt, & Minl.
  • to the high land opposit Side or near the Maha (Omaha Indians) Town is S. 45 E. Some high lands to be Seen from the mound at a Great distance to the N.
  • we Set the Praries on fire as a Signal for the Soues (Sioux Indians) to Come to the river. Course Dist & refers.
  • August 25, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
July 24, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I fear every day that we shall meet with some considerable falls or obstruction in the river notwithstanding the information of the Indian woman (Sacagawea) to the contrary who assures us that the river continues much as we see it.
  • Clark (Clark, William) [NB: had] set out early and pursued the Indian road whih took him up a creek some miles abot 10 A. M. he discovered a horse about six miles distant on his left, he changed his rout towards the horse, on approaching him he found the horse in fine order but so wild he could not get within less than several hundred paces of him.    he still saw much indian sign but none of recent date.    from this horse he directed his course obliquely to the river where on his arrival he killed a deer and dined.   
  • July 24, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 20, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Dead Indian Coulee
  • On the other hand, if Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) first creek did enter from the south at six miles as he has it, it could be Dead Indian Coulee (Dead Indian Coulee) . The second stream in Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) record almost has to be coming from the south and therefore would be Dry Fork (Dry Fork of Marias River) since there is no stream of any consequence coming from the north in this day's route and Dry Fork (Dry Fork of Marias River) most nearly fits his mileage estimates.
  • July 20, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 20, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • M. we arrived at the entrance of a handsome bold river which discharges itself into the Missouri (Missouri River) on the Lard. side; this stream we take to be that called by the Minnetares (Hidatsa Indians) the [blank] or Muscleshell River (Musselshell (Mah-tush,-ah-zhah, Shell) River) ; if it be the same, of which I entertain but little doubt, it takes it's rise, by their information in the 1st Chain of the Rocky Mountains (Rocky Mountains) at no great distance from the Yellow stone river (Yellowstone River) , from whence in it's course to this place it passes through a high and broken country pretty well timbered, particularly on it's borders, and intersperced with handsome fertile plains and medows.    but from the circumstance of the same Indians informing us that we should find a well timbered country in the neighbourhood of it's mouth, I am induced to beleive that the timbered country of which they speak is similar to that we have passed for a day or two, or that in our view above, which consists of nothing more than a few scattering small scrubby pine and dwaft cedar on the summits of some of the highest hills nine tenths of the country being wholy destitute of timber of any kind, covered with a short grass, arromatic herbs and the prickley pear; the river bottom however, so far as we have explored it or 8 m. are well stocked with Cottonwood timber of tollerable size, & lands of excellent quality.
  • counties, Montana (Montana) , still bears the name the captains gave it, translating the Hidatsa (Hidatsa Indians) name (see Fort Mandan (Fort Mandan (N. Dak.))
  • May 20, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Spring 2004): 53–72. Copyright © 2004, Western History Association.)
  • New evidence reveals that the author of the 1797 Indian Office Map was James MacKay, leader of the third Missouri Company expedition up the Missouri River.
  • Detail of the lower Missouri River from the Indian Office map, created by James MacKay. Photo courtesy of Library of Congress.
  • Manuscript, ca. 1804, notes on Indian tribes in James MacKay's hand, note 4. Clark Family Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Thomas C. Danisi and W. Raymond Wood
June 17, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Came too to Make ores, and a Cord for a Toe Rope    all this day imployed in getting out Ores, & makeing for the use of the Boat out of a large Cable rope which we have, G Drewyer (Drouillard, George) Came up [with] a Bear & 2 Deer, also a fine horse which he found in the woods, Supposed to have been left by Some war party from the osages (Osage Indians) , The Ticks are numerous and large and have been trousom [troublesome] all the way and the Musquetors are beginning to be verry troublesom, my Cold Continues verry bad    the French higherlins Complain for the want of Provisions, Saying they are accustomed to eat 5 & 6 times a day, they are roughly rebuked for their presumption, the Country about abounds in Bear Deer & Elk and the S.
  • June 17, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
August 22, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • The 2 men who had been with the horses from the Mahars (Omaha Indians) village, joined us below Sd. Bluffs.    had killed 2 Deer, 2 other men went on with the horses hunting; G.
  • August 22, 1804
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
October 8, 1804 - Gass, Patrick
  • We passed a long range of hills on the north side; about two miles from the Marapa (Rampart (Maropa) Creek) we passed a creek 25 yards wide; and about four miles further came to an island, where one band of the Rickarees (Arikara Indians) live; and encamped at the upper end. Gass (Gass, Patrick) is apparently in error here; according to Clark (Clark, William) the stream 120 yards wide is the "We tar hoo (Grand (We-tar-hoo and similar spellings) River (S.
  • October 8, 1804
  • Journals
  • Gass, Patrick
October 5, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • passed Some wood in a bottom S. S. See Several Indians on the Shore on N. S.    at 11 oClock we Saw a flock of Goats Swimming the River towards the South Shore.   
  • October 5, 1804
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
October 10, 1804 - Gass, Patrick
  • Captain Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) and Captain Clarke (Clark, William) held a Council with the Indians, and gave them some presents. Nicotiana quadrivalvis Pursh.
  • October 10, 1804
  • Journals
  • Gass, Patrick
October 17, 1804 - Clark, William
  • I walked on Shore with the Ricara (Arikara Indians) Chief and an Inteprieter, the[y] told me maney extroadenary Stories, I Killed 3 Dear & a Elk, the Chief Killed a Deer and our hunters Killed 4 Deer, in my absenc the wind rose So high that the Boat lay too all Day; Latd 46° 23' 57" N, I caught a Small uncommon whiperwill    we observe emence herds of Goats, or Antelopes flocking down from the N E Side & Swiming the River, the Chief tels me those animals winter in the Black Mountain (Black Hills) , and in the fall return to those mounts from every quarter, and in the Spring disperse in the planes, those emence herds we See all of which is on the N E Side of the River is on their way to the mountain, and in the Spring they will be as noumeroes on their return (some ganges winter on the Missouri (Missouri River) )—    camped on the L.
  • October 17, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
February 6, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the blacksmith's have proved a happy resoce to us in our present situation as I believe it would have been difficult to have devised any other method to have procured corn from the natives.    the Indians are extravegantly fond of sheet iron of which they form arrow-points and manufacter into instruments for scraping and dressing their buffaloe robes—    I permited the blacksmith to dispose of a part of a sheet-iron callaboos [NB: camboose/Stove] which had been nearly birnt out on our passage up the river, and for each piece about four inches square he obtained from seven to eight gallons of corn from the natives who appeared extreemly pleased with the exchange— Also called a "caboose," apparently from a Dutch sailors' term for a galley stove or an oven.
  • February 6, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 17, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • a clear pleasant morning    we [page faded and worn, perhaps two lines missing] by rains    Saw Spots of pitch pine but the knobs are washed so that their is not ever any grass on them    the River hills look mountainous and make near the river on each Side    we saw large gangs of Elk which are gitting more pleanty than the buffaloe    we saw a nomber of geese and goslins in the River    about 2 oClock P. m. we halted to dine at a narrow bottom on the S. S. where their was Some old Indians camps.    about 3 we proceeded on.    towards evening I and Several more of the party killed a femail brown bear, the first female we killed.   
  • May 17, 1805
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
August 30, 1805 - Clark, William
  • (and those not a Sufficint number for each of our Party to have one which is our wish) I Gave my Fuzee to one of the men & Sold his musket for a horse which Completed us to 29 total horses, we Purchased pack Cords Made Saddles & Set out on our rout down the [EC: Lemhi (Lemhi (East Fork Lewis's) River) ] river by land guided by my old guide (Old Toby) one other who joined him, the old gude's 3 Sons followed him    before we Set out our hunters killed three Deer    proceded on 12 miles and encamped on the river South Side—    at the time we Set out from the Indian Camps the greater Part of the Band Set out over to the waters of the Missouri (Missouri River) .   
  • August 30, 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
October 25, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • near the lower end of the narrows we Saw a war party of Indians which had jest Swam the River to the Stard Side with their horses.   
  • October 25, 1805
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
July 15, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • One of our men started to go down to the other end of the portage, to see if the periogue was safe, which we had left there; and, in the afternoon, the man who had gone after the horses returned unsuccessful; but as he saw some fresh Indian signs he supposes they were stolen and taken back over the dividing ridge.
  • July 15, 1806
  • Journals
  • Gass, Patrick
July 28, 1806 - Clark, William
  • I take this river to be the one the Indians Call the Little Big Horn river (Rosebud (Little Horn River, Mar-Shas-kap) Creek) .
  • The camp, as Clark (Clark, William) notes, was opposite the creek mouth in Rosebud County (Rosebud County, Mont.) . The Indian name would have been obtained from the Mandans (Mandan Indians) or Hidatsas (Hidatsa Indians) , but Clark (Clark, William) may have misidentified it, since the actual Mar-shas-kap (Rosebud (Little Horn River, Mar-Shas-kap) Creek) appears to have been Rosebud Creek (Rosebud (Little Horn River, Mar-Shas-kap) Creek) ; see Fort Mandan (Fort Mandan (N.
  • The term appears to be a Hidatsa (Hidatsa Indians) name, mickapa aaši, "rosebud creek (Rosebud (Little Horn River, Mar-Shas-kap) Creek) " (see July 19, 1806).
  • July 28, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
July 31, 1806 - Clark, William
  • this river I take to be the one the Menetarries (Hidatsa Indians) Call little wolf or Sa-a-shah [NB: Shah] River    The high Country is entirely bar of timber.   
  • "Poner" may be the Mandan (Mandan Indians) term, pasáŋh, "creek," but the meaning of the first portion of the word is unknown (see Fort Mandan (Fort Mandan (N.
  • Miscellany of this edition, although the name, as Clark (Clark, William) indicates, would have been learned from the Hidatsas (Hidatsa Indians) at Fort Mandan (Fort Mandan (N. Dak.)) . Clark (Clark, William) may have added the name to a blank space.
  • July 31, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
July 13, 1804 - Clark, William
  • this evening verry agreeable    the wind Still from the South— John Ordway (Ordway, John) FG Appere. from Camp from the Osagies (Osage Indians) Nation with twenty odd of the Natives or chiefs of the Nation with him [sa]iled dowen the Mississippi (Mississippi River) bound to St Louis (Saint Louis, Mo
  • They may refer to the return of Auguste (Chouteau, René Auguste) or Pierre Chouteau (Chouteau, Jean Pierre) at River Dubois (Dubois River) from the Osages (Osage Indians) on April 22, 1804 (see above). What appears to be "Day" and one or two illegible letters are written vertically directly above the numeral "(1)," at right angles to the courses and distances.
  • July 13, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
July 6, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Clark (Clark, William) may be referring to an incident in 1795 in which Benito (Rouin, Benito de) and Quenache de Rouin (Rouin, Quenache de) , traders returning from the Kansa (Kansa Indians) village, were robbed and beaten but apparently not killed by Iowas (Iowa Indians) .
  • July 6, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
July 21, 1804 - Clark, William
  • : wide with many Small islands Scattered thro' it] and from its rapidity & roleing Sands Cannot be navagated 〈by〉 with Boats or Perogues—    The Indians pass this river in Skin Boats which is flat and will not turn over. The Otteaus (Oto Indians) a Small nation reside on the South Side 10 Leagues up, the Panies on the Same Side 5 Leagus higher up—    about 10 Leagus up this river on the S.
  • July 21, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
August 21, 1804 - Clark, William
  • river wide N. 36° W.   4 ms. to a Beyau above wher the Mahars (Omaha Indians) had a village in the bend to the L. S.    a Sand bar on S. S. & one in the middle    a large Island on the S.
  • The area is now a national monument and only Indians are allowed to extract the stone. Tradition holds that the quarries were neutral ground where all tribes met in peace.
  • August 21, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
August 20, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Clark 20th August Monday    after gieving faufon (Farfonge) Some goods the Indians a Canister of whiskey, we Set out under a jentle Breeze from the S.
  • S. and the first above the old Ayauwa (Iowa Indians) Village on the S. S. we Came to [to] make a warm bath for Sergt.
  • August 20, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
September 21, 1804 - Clark, William
  • this now Connected with the main land, it has the appearance of once being an Island detached from the main land Covered with tall Cotton wood—    we Saw Some Camps and tracks of the Seaux (Sioux Indians) which appears to be old three or four weeks ago—    one frenchman I fear has got an abscess on his they [thigh], he complains verry much    we are makeing every exertion to releiv him— The Praries in this quarter Contains Great qts. of Prickley Pear. It is Tylor's River (Medicine (Tylor's, Turkey) River) on Evans's (Evans, John Thomas) map 2 (Atlas map 8) and on the day's route map (Atlas map 22). On the Indian Office map (Atlas map 5) it seems to be "R: de [vieux] Langlois" and "old Englishmans."
  • September 21, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
February 24, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • This evening we were visited by Comowooll (Coboway) the Clatsop (Clatsop Indians) Chief and 12 men women & children of his nation. Drewyer (Drouillard, George) came a passenger in their canoe, and brought with him two dogs.
  • I find them best when cooked in Indian stile, which is by roasting a number of them together on a wooden spit without any previous preperation whatever.   
  • February 24, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether

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