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January 7, 1806 - Clark, William
  • I entered a house where I found a Man 2 Womn & 3 Children, they appeared retchedly pore & dirty, I hired the man to Set us across the River which I call after the Nation Clat Sop river (Necanicum (Clatsop) River) for which I gave 2 fishing hooks—    at this place the Creek over which I crossed on a tree passes within 100 yards of the Clat Sop river (Clatsop Indians) over which the natives have a portage which affords them an easy Communication with the villages near point adams (Point Adams) , and at the mouth of the Creek, on which we lay last night.   
  • I proceeded on about 2 miles to near the base of high Mountain where I found our Salt makers, and with them Sergt.
  • Shannon (Shannon, George) was out in the woods assisting Jo Field (Field, Joseph) and gibson (Gibson, George) to kill Some meat, the Salt makers had made a neet Close Camp, Convenient to wood Salt water and the fresh water of the Clât Slop river (Necanicum (Clatsop) River) which at this place was within 100 paces of the Ocian they wer also Situated near 4 houses of Clatsops (Clatsop Indians) & Killamox (Tillamook Indians) , who they informed me had been verry kind and attentive to them.
  • January 7, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 6, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Sent a party of Six men with Shannon (Shannon, George) who had killed the Elk to bring in the Elk, and formed a Camp, near which we had a Scaffold made ready to dry the meat as Soon as it Should arive. Reubin Field (Field, Reubin) killed a bird of the Quail kind or Class which was whistleing near our Camp    it is [lar]ger than the quail or partridge as they are Called Kentucky (Kentucky) and [Virg]inia (Virginia) .   
  • the two he had wounded in the morning he found dead near the place he had Shot them.    we had the meat cut into thin pices and Scaffored with a fire under it to dry out, which we expect in the course of the night Can be effected.   
  • April 6, 1806
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  • Clark, William
June 10, 1804 - Gass, Patrick
  • The mouths of these two rivers are very near each other; the first 70 and the other 100 yards wide. We encamped on the south side of the river at a prairie, and remained there the whole of the next day, the wind blowing too violent for us to proceed.
  • June 10, 1804
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  • Gass, Patrick
July 1, 1804 - Floyd, Charles
  • Called the Same name    Good water    made 12½ miles    Campt on an Isd. near the South Side    ouer Flanken party Did not Join us Last evning.
  • July 1, 1804
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  • Floyd, Charles
September 1, 1804 - Gass, Patrick
  • We renewed our voyage early; passed high bluffs on the south side, and high prairie land on the north; on this side, the hills come close to the river; and are so near on both sides, as not to be more than two miles from each other.
  • September 1, 1804
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  • Gass, Patrick
October 17, 1804 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • On the Stard. shore, opposite to a high projecting Bluff; which from the great number of rattlesnakes found near it, we called the rattlesnake Bluff (Rattlesnake Cliffs) .
  • October 17, 1804
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
March 8, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Clark 8th of March Friday 1805 a fair morning Cold and windey, wind from the East, visited by the Greesey head (Greasy Head) & a Riarca (Arikara Indians) to day, those men gave Some account of the Indians near the rockey mountains a young Indian same nation & Different Village Stole the Doughter of the Black man (Black Man) [NB: Mandan (Mandan Indians) (Minetarie (Hidatsa Indians) ], he went to his Village took his horse & returned & took away his doughter
  • March 8, 1805
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  • Clark, William
September 26, 1805 - Clark, William
  • our axes all too Small, Indians caught Sammon & Sold us, 2 Chiefs & thir families came & camped near us, Several men bad, Capt Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) Sick    I gave Pukes Salts &c. to Several, I am a little unwell. hot day
  • September 26, 1805
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  • Clark, William
December 27, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • In the Evening some Indians came to our Fort, they informed us by signs, that a large Fish was drove by the Wind & waves on the shore near to where their lodges were, & we all suppose from the description they gave of it, that it must be a Whale.— Coboway (Coboway) and others, says Clark (Clark, William) .
  • December 27, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
December 31, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • The latter were probably Watlalas (Watlala Indians) , an Upper Chinookan (Chinook Indians) -language people living near the Cascades of the Columbia (Columbia River, Cascades (Great Rapids, Great Shute)) .
  • December 31, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
January 27, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • Where the sun shone on it during the day, a considerable quantity of it melted; but these places were few, as the whole face of the country near this is closely covered with fir timber. In the afternoon a hunter came in and informed us that the party he had been with had killed ten elk.
  • January 27, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
September 4, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • We then proceeded on till we came to our old camp near the Maha (Omaha Indians) village, where we halted to dry our baggage, which got very wet last night, and remained all night.
  • September 4, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
October 21, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Side, and one lodge on an Island near the Stard. Shore opposit to which is a verry bad rapid, thro which we found much dificuelty in passing, the river is Crouded with rocks in every direction, after Passing this dificult rapid to the mouth of a Small river on the Larboard Side 40 yards wide descharges but little water at this time, and appears to take its Sourse in the Open plains to the S.
  • These two groups of lodges are located near the mouth of present Rock Creek (Rock Creek (Klickitat County, Wash.)) , shown entering from the north in the upper right hand corner of Atlas map 77.
  • A small Shahaptian-language group living near the mouth of Rock Creek (Rock Creek (Klickitat County, Wash.)) , in Klickitat County (Klickitat County, Wash.) .
  • October 21, 1805
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  • Clark, William
June 11, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • in the evening our hunters resumed the chase; as game has become scarce and shye near our camp they were directed to hunt at a greater distance and therefore set our prepared to remain 〈out〉 all night and make a mornings hunt in grounds not recently frequented.
  • we have never met with this plant but in or adjacent to a piny or fir timbered country, and there always in the open grounds and glades; in the Columbian (Columbia River) vally and near the coast it is to be found in small quantities and inferior in size to that found in this neighbourhood and in the high rich flatts and vallees within the rocky mountains (Rocky Mountains) .   
  • The stamens are perfect, six in number; the filaments each elivate an anther, near their base are flat on the inside and rounded on the outer terminate in a subulate point, are bowed or bent upwards, inserted on the inner side and on the base of the claws of the petals, below the germ, are equal both with rispect to themselves and the corolla, smooth & membraneous.   
  • June 11, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 29, 1804 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • Whitehouse Sunday 29    the Morning was Rany    the indian and LiBerty (La Liberté) went to the nation to Bring the rest of them to a treaty    the hunter Come to us at 12 CLock with Some EaLk meat and one deare    the Camp was near the Same Praerie Land    Some groves of timBer weL wartered    I Cut my [illegible] on the 27    had to Lay By my ower    the Cout was one inch and half Long    WiLard Left his tommehake weare we Camped on the night of the 28 Instan [illegible words]    we Came to the Grean Prarie    it [is] very hansom    the hils Com in near the river    th[ere] Come in smale Creak on the West Sd of the river    Cald it Potts Creak (Boyer (Bowyer) River (Pott's Creek)) about 20 yds at the Mouth.   
  • July 29, 1804
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
July 23, 1804 - Clark, William
  • (at this Season the Indians on this river are in the Praries Hunting the Buffalow but from Some Signs of hunters near this place & the Plains being on fire near their towns induce a belief that they this nation have returned to get Some Green Corn or rosting Ears)    raised a flag Staff Sund & Dryed our provisions &c.   
  • July 23, 1804
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  • Clark, William
August 12, 1804 - Clark, William
  • S. is the Commencement of a Bluff which is about 4 miles extending on the river, of yellow and brown Clay    in Some parts in it near the river a Soft Sand Stone is inbeded on the top (which is from 20 to 150 feet above the water, & rises back) is Covered with timber, a fiew red Ceider is on this Bluff, the wind Comes round to the S. E.    a Prarie Wolf Come near the bank and Barked at us this evening, we made an attempt but could not git him, this Animale Barkes like a large feste Dog.
  • August 12, 1804
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  • Clark, William
October 1, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • passed the Mouth of a large River on the South Side called ashea (Cheyenne River) or dog River (Cheyenne River) , which is about [blank] yards wide    a Great nomber of Sand bars at & near the Mouth (we had Some difficulty to pass)    Some Scattering Timber on the Bottoms about the mouth of this River.    passd. a bottom on N. S. Some thin timber near the River on Sd. Bottoms. Barren hills back from the River on boath Sides, & little or no Timber back from the River except on creeks & Streams, this Side of the River Platte (Platte River (Nebr.))   
  • October 1, 1804
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  • Ordway, John
October 11, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • found that the two upper villages were near each other & built nearly alike.    their is no wood near these 2 villages.   
  • October 11, 1804
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  • Ordway, John
February 14, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • .—    The officers sent 4 Men with 3 Horses and two Sleds (the horses being procur'd from the North West company's Traders) to bring the Meat, left by Captain Clark (Clark, William) , and his party to the Fort; They set out on the Ice and proceeded on about 25 Miles, when they halted to water their horses, at a place in the River, that was open near a piece of Timber'd Land, where there was a Warr path, part of the Souix (Sioux Indians) Nation being hidden in that place, waiting to plunder & murder any that might pass by them, that were not of their own nation, The Savages rushed out of this piece of Woods, and Ran towards our four Men Whooping and Shouting as they came, (the Men not having finish'd watering their horses) there being near 120 of those Savages, they then surrounded our Men, and took away the three horses, but offered no Violence then to them, One of these Savages returned back to one of our Men one of the horses, The Man to whom the Indian returned the horse gave that Indian some Corn bread, and divided another loaf of Corn bread, among them, giving their Chief that was with them a large Share.—    These Savages took the two other horses, and two knives from them, they then formed a half-Circle round them and held a consultation, the result of which, was that they should be murder'd by their party; which would certainly have been the case; had not two of their Warriors opposed them, and would not agree to its being done, the Savages then set the 〈three〉 four Men at liberty, to go to the fort, These Savages proceeded down the River, to the Rick a Ree (Arikara Indians) nation, and told them what they had done, they likewise informed the Pawne (Pawnee Indians) Indians of the same, This was told to Captain Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) (by a frenchman who lived among the pawne (Pawnee Indians) Indians and was there, when this set of Indians, arrived at that Village,) 〈at our Fort some short time afterwards〉.—    〈being the 28th instant〉.—    The party that was robbed by the Indians returned to the Fort, at 12 o'Clock the same night, they were very much fataigued.   
  • February 14, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
April 22, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) & my Self walked to the [blank] River which is near the Missouri (Missouri River) four miles above its mouth, this river is 60 yards wide and contains a greater perportion of water at this time than is Common for Rivers of its Size    it appears navagable as fur as any of the party was, and I am told to near its Source in morrasses in the open Plains, it passes (as far as we can See which is 6 or 7 Leagus) thro' a butifull extinsive vallie, rich & fertile and at this time Covered with Buffalow, Elk & antelopes, which may be Seen also in any other direction in this quarter—    this river must take its rise at no great distance Easte of the Saskashawan (Saskatchewan River) , and no doubt as far N. as Latd. 50°.
  • April 22, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 25, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • we proceeded on    passed thro a low part of the plain or prarie, which is covred with high Grass and wild onions    passed Several fine Springs and forks of the creek 〈of〉 one of which had a rapid where it passed a hill little above high clifts which make near the creek on each Side.    the plain gitting narrow    the upper part of it has lately been burned over.   
  • we Came 15 miles this day and Camped at the branch where the mountains made near on each Side.    our hunters joined us    one of them had killed another Deer which we were oblidged to give to the natives who were all most Sterved.   
  • August 25, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
October 22, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • Side    a large river puts in verry rapidly of the Island about 40 yards wide    Several perpinticular falls near its mouth.    large fishing Camps at the lower end of the Island.   
  • The Celilo (Celilo (Great) Falls) , Great Falls (Columbia River, Great Falls of the) , of the Columbia River (Columbia River) , near Wishram (Wishram, Wash.) , Klickitat County (Klickitat County, Wash.) , Washington (Washington) , and Celilo (Celilo, Oreg.) , Wasco County (Wasco County, Oreg.) , Oregon (Oregon) .
  • October 22, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
March 26, 1806 - Clark, William
  • This bottom we also Call fannys bottom (Crims (Fanny's) Island)    it is extensive and an open leavel plain except near the river bank which is high dry rich oak land. I saw Some deer & Elk at a distance in the Prarie.    we continued untill late in the evening and encamped on a Small Island near the Middle of the river haveing made 18 Miles.    2 Indians Visited us this evining
  • March 26, 1806
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  • Clark, William
May 9, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Soon after we halted at the lodge of the twisted hair (Twisted Hair (Walamotinin)) he Set out with two boys and Willard (Willard, Alexander) with a pack horse down to the river near the place we made the Canoes for our Saddles and a Cannister of powder and Some lead buried there, also a part of our horses which resorted near that place.   
  • May 9, 1806
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  • Clark, William
September 8, 1806 - Clark, William
  • The Council Bluff (Council Bluff (Nebr.)) near Fort Calhoun (Fort Calhoun, Nebr.) , Washington County (Washington County, Nebr.) , where they camped from July 30 to August 3, 1804, and counciled with the Otos (Oto Indians) and Missouris (Missouri Indians) .
  • The party camped here July 22–27, 1804, near the Mills (Mills County, Iowa) -Pottawattamie (Pottawattamie County, Iowa) county line, in Iowa (Iowa) .
  • September 8, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 9, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • Came 18 miles and Camped on L. S. near a grove of cotton trees & willows. Friday August 9th    We had a clear cool morning, several of our Hunters left the camp early to go out a hunting & We set out as usual, and proceeded on our Voyage, the wind blowing high from the South east, We stopped with one of our Canoes & took on board a Goat, which one of the hunters, that went out this morning had killed, & left on the bank of the River; we proceeded on till about 8 o'Clock A.
  • We passed some smooth plains much the same as those we passed Yesterday.    We all expect that we are near the head Waters or source of the Mesouri River (Missouri River) , as the River, here is growing much narrower than it was, We had some thunder in the afternoon, and the Musketoes was very toublesome.   
  • We saw Snow on the mountains which lay ahead of us.—    We continued on our way, and passed a place, where we supposed the Bed of the River formerly was, and high land, lying on the South side of the Priaries lying back from the River, with some Cotton wood Trees growing on it, The priaries here lay low on both sides of the River, some part of which is soft & boggy, which we expect would make good turf    In the evening we had some Showers of rain accompanied with thunder, We encamped on the South side of the River, near a Grove of Cotton wood trees, & Willows, having come 18 Miles this day.— Perhaps the party's initial name for their Wisdom River (Big Hole (Sensable, Wisdom) River) , today's Big Hole River (Big Hole (Sensable, Wisdom) River) .
  • August 9, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
August 26, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • passed over Several hills.    when we came near the natives lodges we fired 2 rounds by the requst of the chief then went to their lodges.   
  • Mesouri (Missouri River) , We proceeded on after dining, having givin the Indians that was with us, some Corn, We crossed several hills, and arrived near, to where the Natives had their lodges.    We fired 2 Rounds with our small Arms, by request of their Chiefs, who were with us.   
  • The Shoshone (Shoshone Indians) camp was probably now located about four miles north of Tendoy (Tendoy, Idaho) , Lemhi County (Lemhi County, Idaho) , Idaho (Idaho) , near where Kenney Creek (Kenney Creek) joins the Lemhi River (Lemhi (East Fork Lewis's) River) .
  • August 26, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
September 2, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • we Came 13 miles this day and Camped in a thicket of pine and bolsom fir timber near the Creek.    2 of the men came up with their horses and loads after dark.   
  • M. we passed some very bad Roads, some being plains with very thick bushes, and low slashes to cross, other places, very rockey, we went a North east course up the Creek above mention'd.    We recrossed the same Creek near a large spring run,—    where we saw a number of high beaver dams.   
  • One of our horses gave out, so that we were obliged to leave his load.—    We came about 13 Miles this day, & encamped in a thicket of pine trees, and balsam fir timber; near the Creek.—    Two of our Men came up with their horses & loads after it was dark.—    We came about 6 Miles through this bad road, all of which way was very bad travelling, and we are informed by our guide, that we have still further to go, before we get to the plains, which he says will be tomorrow, Our Hunters killed several Pheasants this day, but saw no other kind of Game.— That is, "above mentioned," as in the fair copy.
  • September 2, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
February 7, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • In this neighbourhood I observe the honeysuckle common in our country    I first met with it on the waters of the Kooskooske (Clearwater (Flathead, Kooskooskee) River) near the Chopunnish (Nez Perce Indians) nation, and again below the grand rappids (Columbia River, Cascades (Great Rapids, Great Shute)) In the Columbian (Columbia River) Valley on tidewater.
  • the leaf is thin of a pale green and small being ¾ of an inch in length and ⅜ in width; oval terminateing more accutely at the apex than near the insertion of the footstalk which is at the base; veined, nearly entire, serrate but so slightly so that it is scarcely perceptile; footstalk short and there position with rispect to each other is alternate and two ranked, proceeding from the horizontal sides of the bough only.
  • However, oval-leaf blueberry, Vaccinium 0valifolium Sm., may be a better candidate for Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) huckleberry than the mountain huckleberry, a montane species that Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) may have seen upriver near the Cascades (Cascade Range) . At least two smallpox epidemics occurred among the Chinookan (Chinook Indians) peoples of the Lower Columbia (Columbia River) Valley before the arrival of Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) and Clark (Clark, William) .
  • February 7, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 29, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Willard (Willard, Alexander) informed me that he Saw 2 antilopes but Could not get near to them. Willard (Willard, Alexander) and Labiech (Labiche, François) waded white river (White River) a fiew miles above its enterance and inform me that they found it 2 feet water and 200 yards wide. the water of this river at this time nearly as white as milk.   
  • Side    I with Several of the men went out in pursute of Buffalow.    the men killed 2 Bulls near me they were very por    I assended to the high Country and from an eminance, I had a view of the plains for a great distance.    from this eminance I had a view of a greater number of buffalow than I had ever Seen before at one time. I must have Seen near 20,000 of those animals feeding on this plain. I have observed that in the country between the nations which are at war with each other the greatest numbers of wild animals are to be found—    on my return to the river I killed 2 young deer.   
  • August 29, 1806
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  • Clark, William
November 3, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Clark November 3rd Sunday 1805 The Fog So thick this morning that we could not See a man 50 Steps off, this fog detained us untill 10 oClock at which time we Set out, accompanied by our Indian friends who are from a village near the great falls (Columbia River, Great Falls of the) , previous to our Setting out Collins (Collins, John) killed a large Buck, and Labiech (Labiche, François) killed 3 Geese flying.
  • Hood (Mount Hood (Timm, Falls Mountain)) is S. 85° E about 47 miles distant from the mouth of quick sand river (Sandy (Quicksand) River) This mtn. is Covered with Snow and in the range of mountains which we have passed through and is of a Conical form but rugid—    after takeing dinner at the mouth of this river we proceeded on    passed the head of a Island near the lard Side back of which on the Same Side and near the head a large Creek falls in, and nearly opposit & 3 miles below the upper mouth of quick Sand river (Sandy (Quicksand) River) is the lower mouth, [for?]
  • one of those Indians, the man from the village near the lower Rapids has a gun with a brass barrel & Cock of which he prises highly—    note the mountain we Saw from near the forks proves to be Mount Hood (Mount Hood (Timm, Falls Mountain)) Diamond Island (Government (Diamond, White Goose, Swan) Island) is later Government (Government (Diamond, White Goose, Swan) Island) and McGuire islands (McGuire (Diamond, Swan, White Goose) Island) , opposite Portland (Portland, Oreg.) , Multnomah County (Multnomah County, Oreg.) .
  • November 3, 1805
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  • Clark, William
July 17, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • they grow closly ascociated in cops either in the oppen or timbered lands near the watercouses.    the leaf is petiolate of a pale green and resembles in it's form that of the red currant common to our gardens.   
  • The rocks are composed of the Adel Mountains (Adel Mountains) volcanics. Near here they are primarily laval breccias and ashfall tuffs but contain no granite.
  • In Lewis and Clark County (Lewis and Clark County, Mont.) , Montana (Montana) , a few miles downstream from the Dearborn River (Dearborn River) , near where Interstate Highway 15 (Interstate Highway 15) crosses the Missouri (Missouri River) .
  • July 17, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 8, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • high well timbered land on the North Side, passed a Creek near the upper end of this long Island called Nodaway Creek (Nodaway River) or River    we Camped on the North Side of the Missouris (Missouri River) , the Hunters killed one Deer to day but did not Join us at night,
  • July 8, 1804
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  • Ordway, John
January 20, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • Gass (Gass, Patrick) and Whitehouse (Whitehouse, Joseph) both describe this religious practice and seem to have understood its purpose, which was to placate the spirit of the buffalo and cause the animals to come near and offer themselves as food.
  • January 20, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
October 7, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • Some part of the River is deep and current gentle &c.    the hills and clifts make near the River on each side. Saw old Indian Camps on Lard. Side    Came 21 miles and Camped on the Stard.
  • October 7, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
July 8, 1804 - Clark, William
  • If Nicollet's identification in 1839 is correct, this is apparently Mace Creek (Mace Creek) , reaching the Missouri (Missouri River) near Amazonia (Amazonia, Mo.) , Andrew County (Andrew County, Mo.) , Missouri (Missouri) ; Nicollet labels it "Ordway's Creek (Little Prickly Pear (Ordway's) Creek) (L. & Cl.) or Nadoway (Nodaway River) [Set?]
  • Fenton, 320; Coues (HLC), 1:41 n. 88; Stewart (APN), 330; Nicollet (MMR), 375; MRC map 18. Near the present mouth of the Nodaway (Nodaway River) and the town of Nodaway (Nodaway, Mo.) , in Andrew County (Andrew County, Mo.) . Nodaway Island (Nodaway Island) was still on the map near the end of the century. MRC map 18. Clark (Clark, William) here reached the bottom of the page, added to get a subtotal of mileage, and continued the July 8 courses and distances in the right margin, at right angles to the rest of the writing.
  • July 8, 1804
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  • Clark, William
July 23, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Clark (Clark, William) & party had killed and left near the river.    he pursued his rout untill late in the evening and encamped on the bank of the river 25 ms. above our encampment of the last evening; he followed an old indian road which lyes along the river on the stard side Capt. saw a number of Antelopes, and one herd of Elk.   
  • bend passing the upper pt. of the island on Stard. at 1 ¼ m. and a small isld. on Lard. near the extremity of this course. S. 10° W.   1 ½ to the center of a Stard. bend S. 80° E.   1 to a point in the Stard. bend.
  • In Broadwater County (Broadwater County, Mont.) , near the south end of present Canyon Ferry Lake (Canyon Ferry Lake) , near present Townsend (Townsend, Mont.) .
  • July 23, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 21, 1805 - Clark, William
  • .—    one man brought me a tomahawk which we expected they had Stolen from a man of Capt Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) party, this man informed me he found the tomk in the grass near the place the man Slept. Crossed the River and went over a point of high land & Struck it again near a Bluff on the right Side the man I left to get a horse at the upper Camp missed me & went to the forks which is about five miles below the last Camp.
  • one Deer killed this morning, and a Sammon in the last Creek 2½ feet long    The Westerley fork of the Columbia River (Columbia River) is double the Size of the Easterley fork & below those forks the river is about the Size Jeffersons River (Beaverhead (Jefferson) River) near its mouth or 100 yards wide, it is verry rapid & Sholey water Clear 〈no〉 but little timer.
  • The east fork is the present Lemhi River (Lemhi (East Fork Lewis's) River) , and the west fork and the main river below the junction are the Salmon (Salmon (Lewis's, Main Fork Lewis's, Southeast Fork of Columbia, West Fork Lewis's) River) . The cliff near where Clark (Clark, William) made his evening camp is composed of reddish-brown argillite (mudstone) of the Precambrian Belt Group.
  • August 21, 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
November 18, 1805 - Clark, William
  • This Creek appears to be nothing more than the conveyance of Several Small dreans from the high hills and the ponds on each Side near its mouth. here we were Set across all in one Canoe by 2 Squars to each I gav a Small hook S. 79° W.   5 Miles to the mouth of Chin nook river (Wallacut (Chinook) River) , passed a low bluff of a small hite at 2 miles below which is the remains of huts near which place is also the remains of a whale on the Sand, the countrey low open and Slashey, with elivated lands inter- spersed covered with [NB?
  • Rubin Fields (Field, Reubin) Killed a Buzzard [NB?: Vulture] of the large Kind near the meat of the whale we Saw: W. 25 lb. measured from the tips of the wings across 9½ feet, from the point of the Bill to the end of the tail 3 feet 10¼ inches, middle toe 5½ inches, toe nale 1 inch & 3½ lines, wing feather 2½ feet long & 1 inch 5 lines diami- ter tale feathers 14½ inches, and the head is 6½ inches in- cluding the beak.
  • after dineing we crossed the river in an old canoe which I found on the Sand near Som old houses & proceeded on— S. 20° W.   4 Miles to a Small rock island in a deep nitch    passed a nitch at 2 miles in which there is a dreen from Some ponds back, the land low opposite this nitch    a bluff of yellow Clay and Soft Stone from the river to the Comencement of this nitch    be- low the Country rises to high hills of about 80 or 90 feet above the water—    at 3 miles passed a nitch—    this rock Island is Small and at the South of a deep bend in which the nativs in- form us the Ships anchor, and from whence they receive their goods in return for their peltries and Elk Skins &c. this ap- pears to be a very good harber for large Ships.   
  • November 18, 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
March 13, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Pryor (Pryor, Nathaniel Hale) and a party made another Serch for the lost Canoe but was unsucksessfull; while engaged in Serching for the Canoe, Collins (Collins, John) one of this party killed two Elk near the Netul (Lewis and Clark (Fort, Netul) River) below us.    we Sent Sergt.
  • the rostrum or nose extend beyond the under jaws, and both the upper and the lower jaw are armed with a Single Series of long teeth which are Subulate and infleted near the extremities of the jaws where they are more closely arranged.   
  • this fish is Sometimes red along the Sides and belly near the gills; particularly the male of this Species.
  • March 13, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
July 26, 1804 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • .— Thursday July 26th    This morning, we had pleasant weather, one of our hunters went out hunting, & returned; having kill'd & brought in with him 2 Deer & one Turkey, the latter part of the day, the Wind blew hard from the South, our people went out to hunt beaver, and caught near this place a large number of them.—
  • July 26, 1804
  • Journals
  • Whitehouse, Joseph
September 3, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • a Cool & pleasant morning    we Set off at Sun rise, the wind blew from the west, passed yallow Bluff, Some Stone under the bank near the water.    passed round a large sand point N. Side, the Timber Scarce on both Sides of the River.—    N.B. a great many Beaver Sign & Cabbins on the river today.
  • September 3, 1804
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
December 9, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) Sent in 4 Hors's loaded with meat, he continued at the hunting Camp near which the[y] killed 9 buffalow.
  • December 9, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
March 17, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • then moved his effects back to the Fort, & pitched a lodge near the Fort.    the wind high from the West. Warner (Werner, William) has lost his Tommahawk, expect the Indians Stole it.
  • March 17, 1805
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
April 6, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • our officers wished to wait and know their business, as the indians sayed that they were near this on the opposite Side of the River. So our Intrepeter one of the party and two frenchmen was Sent across the River in order to go & See if the report was true.   
  • April 6, 1805
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
April 30, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • we proceeded on, and passed by a most beautiful Country, being Priaries lying on both sides of the River, which rise 〈greatly〉 gradually from the banks of 〈the River,〉 it and the Soil very rich, In the afternoon we stopped and encamped on the North side of the River, Captain Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) shortly after we encamped, went out a hunting, and killed a large Elk, in a bottom, near to where we had encamped,—    which was brought to our Camp, the distance we went this day being 24 Miles.—
  • April 30, 1805
  • Journals
  • Whitehouse, Joseph
July 5, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Clark July 5th Friday 1805 A fine morning and but little wind, worm and Sultrey at 8 oClock—    I Saw a large gangue of Buffalow and prosued them with Several men    the wind was unfavourable and we Could not get near them, the party Scattered & Killed 3 buffalow and brought into [camp] their Skins and Some meat, Killed 2 wolves & 3 Antilopes for their Skins, Capt.
  • July 5, 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
November 25, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • Being unable to cross the Columbia (Columbia River) , they went around Grays Bay (Grays (Shallow) Bay) and camped near Pillar Rock (Pillar Rock) , Wahkiakum County (Wahkiakum County, Wash.) , Washington (Washington) .
  • November 25, 1805
  • Journals
  • Gass, Patrick
January 11, 1806 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • Whitehouse Saturday Janry 11th    We had a number of Indians encamped near the fort last night, And this morning, we had pleasant weather.   
  • January 11, 1806
  • Journals
  • Whitehouse, Joseph

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