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July 17, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Barton (Barton, Benjamin Smith) ] and abundant in the river bottoms. The Indians of the Missouri (Missouri River) particularly those who do not cultivate maze make great uce of the seed of this plant for bread, or use it in thickening their soope.   
  • July 17, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 10, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Cottom wood and pine grow intermxed in the river bottoms    passed Several old indian encampments. N. 80° E.     2 miles to two nearly equal forks of the river    here the road forks also one leading up each river.   
  • July 10, 1806
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  • Clark, William
July 27, 1806 - Clark, William
  • The deeply rooting skunkbush is characteristic of riparian streambanks and terraces of the arid West. Barkley, 223; Welsh (Welsh Indians) et al., 47. The missing word may be "leaves." In general, Clark (Clark, William) is describing the Hell Creek Formation (Hell Creek Formation) , but the Bearpaw Shale is exposed for a considerable distance on today's travels, and the Judith River Formation (Judith River Formation) touches the north bank of the river a few miles upstream from his evening's camp.
  • July 27, 1806
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  • Clark, William
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • Birds American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus Captain Clark mentioned that the "Indian hen" was found as far upstream as the mouth of the Little Sioux River, in present-day northwestern Iowa or adjacent Nebraska. The vernacular name "Indian hen" was commonly used for this elusive species through the nineteenth century.
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  • Paul A. Johnsgard
Oregon Historical Quarterly 105:3 (2004): 390–421.
  • They measured river fall, flood heights, lengths of portages, numbers of Indian dwellings, and stacks of drying fish. Clark's descriptions of the black rocks, perpendicular cliffs flanking the valley bottom, and windblown sand collected in hollows make his resulting maps, such as the one of Celilo Falls, the first geologic maps made in the Pacific Northwest.
  • The Douglas fir, western red cedar, and white oak were once rooted above the level of annual floods but then were submerged by the lake-like river kept forty feet high by the remaining impediment of Cascade Rapids Rapids. "The Indians say these falls are not ancient" The Cascade, or Bonneville, landslide was well-studied over the next two decades as a consequence of dam-siting analyses leading to the 1934–1938 construction of Bonneville Dam.
  • Foremost was the creation of a new barrier to human navigation and fish passage: "The Indians say these falls are not ancient, and that their fathers voyaged [from the sea] without obstruction in their canoes as far as The Dalles of the Columbia.”
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  • Jim E. O'Connor
Great Plains Quarterly 4.1 (1984): 54–69.
  • He had spent many years collecting and studying all that had been written and published about the subject, and he had had ample opportunity to meet Indians and others who had traveled in the West and to record all that he could learn from them.
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  • Silvio A. Bedini

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