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February 25, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the hair is short as that of the fox-squirrel but is much finer and intermixed with a proportion of fur.    the natives make great use of these skins in forming their robes.    this squirrel subsists principally on the acorn and filbird which last also grows abundantly in the oak countrey.— The small brown squirrel is a beautifull little animal about the size and form of the red squirrel of the Eastern Atlantic states and western lakes.   
  • it differs not at all from those of the U' States.    the barking squirrel and handsome ground squirrel of the plains on the East side of the rocky mountain (Rocky Mountains) s are not found in the plains of Columbia (Great Columbian Plain) .
  • February 25, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 8, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • Yesterday one of the men caught a small squirrel, like a ground squirrel, but of a more dun colour, and more spotted.
  • The swift fox, Vulpes velox. The thirteen-lined ground squirrel, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus.
  • July 8, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
February 24, 1806 - Clark, William
  • The first description of the western gray squirrel. Burroughs, 97. For squirrel, Sciurus niger. Hazelnut, filbert, Corylus cornuta Marsh. var. californica (DC.) Sharp, like the acorns, harvested by birds and squirrels. Hitchcock et al., 2:83. Another new species, Douglas's squirrel or chickaree. The red squirrel and ground squirrel, mentioned for comparison, are probably the red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, and perhaps the eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus, a mostly terrestrial squirrel.
  • February 24, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains Images
  • Ground Squirrel Thirteen-lined ground squirrel, adult (dormant) Illustration by: Paul Johnsgard Source: Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains 2003 University of Nebraska Press with the Center for Great Plains Studies Permission to reproduce image required. http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/
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Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains Images
  • Richardson's Ground Squirrel Richardson's ground squirrel, adult ("pocket-pin" posture) Illustration by: Paul Johnsgard Source: Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains 2003 University of Nebraska Press with the Center for Great Plains Studies Permission to reproduce image required. http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/
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June 12, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • There is no game of any other kind, except squirrels and some other small animals. The squirrels are about the size of our common grey squirrels, and very handsome.
  • Shields (Shields, John) , according to Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) and Clark (Clark, William) . Columbian ground squirrel, Spermophilus columbianus; see Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) entry for June 10.
  • June 12, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
September 7, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • .—    the Captains went out with Some men of the party to See the Ground where those little dogs make their villages & they found more than an acre of Ground covered with their holes, they attempted to drown Several of them out of their holes, but they caught but one which they brought in alive, they are a curious annimal about the Size of a little dog, & of a grayish coulour    resembles them nearly except the tail which is like a Ground Squirrel. They will Stand on their hind feet & look &.C.—    we Camped on the South Side near the Steeple of the round knob Old Baldy (Old Baldy (Dome)) , eastern Boyd County (Boyd County, Nebr.) , Nebraska (Nebraska) . Prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus; the squirrel used for comparison is the gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis.
  • September 7, 1804
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  • Ordway, John
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • Illustrations Bison Grizzly bear and black bear Elk Pronghorn Least tern Piping plover Buffaloberry Pasture sagewort Bighorn Black-tailed prairie dog Coyote Gray wolf Mule deer Richardson's ground squirrel White-tailed jackrabbit Common poorwill Golden eagle Sharp-tailed grouse Trumpeter swan Western meadowlark Whooping crane Bearberry Fringed sagebrush Indian tobacco Lanceleaf sage Large-flowered clammyweed Missouri milk-vetch Shadscale Silky wormwood Western juniper and lark sparrow Bushy-tailed woodrat Swift fox Thirteen-lined ground squirrel Greater sage-grouse Lewis's woodpecker McCown's longspur Western rattlesnake and western hognose snake Channel catfish, blue catfish, and cutthroat trout Mountain sucker and goldeye FIG.1.
  • Mule deer, adult male (in autumn) Drawing of a mule deer, adult male (in autumn) FIG. 14. Richardson's ground squirrel, adult ("picket-pin" posture) Drawing of Richardson's ground squirrel, adult ("picket-pin" posture) FIG. 15.
  • Swift fox, adult Drawing of a swift fox, adult FIG. 33. Thirteen-lined ground squirrel, adult (dormant) Drawing of a thirteen-lined ground squirrel, adult (dormant) FIG. 34.
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  • Paul A. Johnsgard
April 16, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • Some hunters that went out in the morning returned in the evening and had killed two deer, some ducks and four squirrels, three of a beautiful speckled kind, and as large as a common grey squirrel, but the tail not so bushy.
  • April 16, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
February 15, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • The quadrupeds of this country from the Rocky Mountains (Rocky Mountains) to the pacific Ocean (Pacific Ocean) are 1st the domestic animals, consisting of the horse and the dog only; 2cdly the native wild animals, consisting of the Brown white or grizly bear, (which I beleive to be the same family with a mearly accedental difference in point of colour) the black bear, the common red deer, the black tailed fallow deer, the Mule deer, Elk, the large brown wolf, the small woolf of the plains, the large wolf of the plains, the tiger cat, the common red fox, black fox or fisher, silver fox, large red fox of the plains, small fox of the plains or kit fox, Antelope, sheep, beaver, common otter, sea Otter, mink, spuck, seal, racoon, large grey squirrel, small brown squirrel, small grey squirrel, ground squirrel, sewelel, Braro, rat, mouse, mole, Panther, hare, rabbit, and polecat or skunk.   
  • The following species can be identified as: brown, white, or grizzly bear, Ursus horribilus; black bear; common red deer, Columbian white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus leucura; black tailed fallow deer, Columbian black-tailed deer; mule deer; elk; large brown wolf, Canis lupus fuscus; small wolf of the plains, coyote, C. latrans; large wolf of the plains, C. lupus nubilus; tiger cat, Oregon bobcat; red fox; black fox or fisher, Martes pennanti; silver fox and large red fox of the plains, red fox; small fox of the plains or kit fox, swift fox, Vulpes velox; antelope, pronghorn, Antilocapra americana; sheep, mountain goat, Oreamnos americanus; beaver; otter; sea otter; mink, Mustela vison; spuck, young sea otter; harbor seal; raccoon; large gray squirrel, western gray squirrel, Sciurus griseus; small brown squirrel, Douglas's squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasii; small gray squirrel, Richarson's red squirrel; ground squirrel, probably Townsend's chipmunk, Eutamias townsendii; "sewelel," mountain beaver; "Braro," badger; uncertain rat, mouse, and mole; "Panther," mountain lion; hare, white-tailed jackrabbit, Lepus townsendii; rabbit, either eastern cottontail, Sylvilagus floridanus, or Nuttall's cottontail, S. nuttallii; polecat or striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis.
  • February 15, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
October 21, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • We saw among them some small robes made of the skins of grey squirrels, some racoon skins, and acorns, which are signs of a timbered country not far distant.
  • Probably camas. Perhaps western gray squirrel, Sciurus griseus. Clark (Clark, William) reports that they were acorns of the Oregon white oak, Quercus garryana Dougl. ex.
  • October 21, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
September 11, 1803 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Lewis 11th September Set out about sunrise, passed Sunfish creek (Sunfish Creek) 1 mile &c &c    entered the long reach, so called from the Ohio (Ohio River) running in strait direction for 18 miles    in this reach there are 5 Islands from three to 2 miles in length each— observed a number of squirrels swiming the Ohio (Ohio River) and universally passing from the W. to the East shore    they appear to be making to the south; perhaps it may be mast or food which they are in serch of but I should reather suppose that it is climate which is their object as I find no difference in the quantity of mast on both sides of this river it being abundant on both except the beach nut which appears extreemly scarce this season, the walnuts and Hickory nuts the usual food of the squirrell appears in great abundance on either side of the river— I made my dog take as many each day as I had occation for, they wer fat and I thought them when fryed a pleasent food—    many of these squirrils wer black, they swim very light on the water and make pretty good speed— my dog (Seaman) was of the newfoundland breed very active strong and docile, he would take the squirel in the water kill them and swiming bring them in his mouth to the boat. we lay this night below the fifth Island in the long reach on the E. side of the river having come 26 miles The islands today along the Long Reach (Long Reach Island) are Paden (Paden Island) , Williamson (Williamson Island) , Wells (Wells Island) , Mill Creek (Mill Creek Island) , and Grand View (Grand View Island) islands. These would be gray squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis; such migrations are rare today, the squirrel population having been much reduced.
  • September 11, 1803
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 16, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • they are a size less than the grey squirrel common to the middle atlantic states and of a pided grey and yellowish brown colour, in form it resembles our grey squrrel precisely.
  • Some vertical lines cross through these passages to where Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) writes "our present station," all perhaps drawn by Biddle (Biddle, Nicholas) . The large gray squirrel is the western gray squirrel, Sciurus griseus, described by Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) on February 25, 1806. The other squirrels may be the California ground squirrel, Spermophilus beecheyi, assuming that Field (Field, Joseph) had stayed with the main party on the Oregon (Oregon) side; the California ground squirrel did not cross to the Washington (Washington) side until the twentieth century.
  • April 16, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 23, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • near this place I observe a number of the whistleing squirrel of the speceis common to the plains and country watered by the Columbia river (Columbia River) , this is the first instance in which I have found this squirrel in the plains of the Missouri (Missouri River) .   
  • The junction of Cut Bank Creek (Cut Bank Creek (North Branch of Marias River)) and Two Medicine River (Two Medicine River (Main or South Branch Marias River)) . Columbian ground squirrel. Burroughs, 99–101, 322 n. 8. Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) recognizes that black cottonwood, the only cottonwood west of the Continental Divide (Continental Divide) , continues east along the eastern Rocky Mountain (Rocky Mountains) foothills of north-central Montana (Montana) .
  • July 23, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 16, 1806 - Ordway, John
  • Perhaps the California ground squirrel, Spermophilus beecheyi; see Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) entry for this date. Joseph Field (Field, Joseph) brought the animals in. Western gray squirrel.
  • April 16, 1806
  • Journals
  • Ordway, John
September 18, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the first is but a poor dependance in our present situation where there is nothing upon earth exept ourselves and a few small pheasants, small grey Squirrels, and a blue bird of the vulter kind about the size of a turtle dove or jay bird.   
  • Supplies from Private Vendors [June 1803], Jackson (LLC), 1:81–82; Summary of Purchases [June 1803], ibid., 1:97; Chuinard (OOMD), 160–62. The squirrel may be Richardson's red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus richardsoni; see below, February 24 and 25, 1806.
  • September 18, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
October 26, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • Some hunters went out and killed 6 deer and some squirrels. In the afternoon about 20 of the natives came to our camp (among whom were the head chiefs of the two villages about the falls) who had been out hunting when we passed down.
  • October 26, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
July 4, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • a few miles before we encamped I killed a squirrel of the speceis common to the Rocky Mountains (Rocky Mountains) and a ground squirrel of a speceis which I had never before seen, I preserved the skins of both of these animals.
  • Linguistic determinations are discussed at August 13, 1805. Probably Richardson's red squirrel; see February 24 and 25, 1806. The other squirrel can not be identified.
  • July 4, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
December 1, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • sent out the men to hunt and examin the country, they soon returned all except Drewyer (Drouillard, George) and informed me that the wood was so thick it was almost impenetrable and that there was but little appearance of game; they had seen the track of one deer only and a few small grey squirrels.    〈with yellow th〉 these suirrels are about the size of the red squirrel of the lakes and eastern Atlantic States, their bellies are of a redish yellow, or tanners ooze colour the tale flat and as long as the body eyes black and moderately large back and sides of a greyish brown    the brier with a brown bark and three laves which put forth at the extremety of the twigs like the leaves of the blackbury brier, tho' is a kind of shrub and rises sometimes to the hight of 10 fe[et]    the green brier yet in leaf; the ash with a remarkable large leaf; the large black alder.   
  • W. side." Probably Richardson's red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus richardsoni, a new species; see also February 24 and 25, 1806.
  • December 1, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
September 7, 1804 - Clark, William
  • The rattlesnake is probably the prairie rattler, Crotalus viridis, while the squirrel used for comparison is the gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis.
  • September 7, 1804
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  • Clark, William
April 7, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • they took down the letters and all the writings which was necessary to go back to the States    also Some curious animals such as Goat Skins & horns, a barking Squirrell Some Mountain Rams horns a prarie hen & badgers Some birds cauled magpies & a nomber of other curious things too tedious to mention &.c.   
  • The animals Ordway (Ordway, John) mentioned are pronghorn (goat), prairie dog (barking squirrel), bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis (mountain ram), sharp-tailed grouse (prairie hen), badger, and black-billed magpie.
  • April 7, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
May 27, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the teeth are like those of the squirrel as is it's whole contour.    the whiskers are full, long and black; it also has some long black hairs above the eyes.   
  • when you approach a burrow the squirrels, one or more, usually set erect on these mounds and make a kind of shrill whistleing nois, something like tweet, tweet, tweet, &c.   
  • The first description of the Columbian ground squirrel; see Clark's (Clark, William) brief mention at May 23, 1806.
  • May 27, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 1, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • The little animal found in the plains of the Missouri (Missouri River) which I have called the barking squirrel weighs from 3 to 3½ pounds.    it's form is that of the squirrel.   
  • it is nearly double the size of the whistleing squirrel of the Columbia (Columbia River) .    it is much more quick active and fleet than it's form would indicate.    these squirrels burrow in the ground in the open plains usually at a considerable distance from the water yet are never seen at any distance from their burrows.   
  • July 1, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
June 5, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • near the river the plain is cut by deep ravines in this plain and from one to nine miles from the river or any water, we saw the largest collection of the burrowing or barking squirrels that we had ever yet seen; we passed through a skirt of the territory of this community for about 7 miles.
  • the river is about 80 yds. wide with a strong steady courant and from 6 to 10 feet water. I had the burrowing squirrels roasted by way of experiment and found the flesh well flavored and tender; some of them were very fat.
  • Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) wording seems to imply this was the already familiar prairie dog (see above, September 7, 1804); Coues believes it to be Richardson's ground squirrel. Since Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) party actually killed some to eat, it would seem he would have noted the difference in size and color.
  • June 5, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
January 5, 1806 - Gass, Patrick
  • This was a very wet day. We killed a squirrel and eat it; made a raft to cross the creek; but when it was tried we found it would carry only one person at a time; the man with me was therefore sent over first, who thought he could shove the raft across again; but when he attempted, it only went half-way: so that there was one of us on each side and the raft in the middle.
  • January 5, 1806
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  • Gass, Patrick
November 19, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • They wore Robes made out of the Skins of swans, Squirrel skins, & some made out of beaver skins also—    Some of these Indians Wore hats which they make out of white Cedar & bear Grass.   
  • November 19, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
September 16, 1803 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Lewis 16th September: Thermometer this morning in the air 54° in the water 72°    a thick fogg which continued so thick that we did not set out untill 8 oClock in the morning    the day was fair, passed severale very bad riffles and among the rest Emberson's Island (Buffington's (Emberson's) Island) , while they were geting the boat through this long riffle I went on shore and shot some squirrels; my men were very much fatigued with this days labour however I continued untill nearly dark when we came too on the Virginia (West Virginia) shore having made only 19 miles this day.— Cramer gives this as "Amberson's, or, Buffentin's Island (Buffington's (Emberson's) Island) ."
  • September 16, 1803
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 31, 1806 - Clark, William
  • It is the Steeple on Atlas map 19; the village of "barking squirrels" (prairie dogs) is shown just above it. MRC map 33. For squirrel, Sciurus niger.
  • August 31, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
February 15, 1806 - Clark, William
  • The quadrupeds of this countrey from the Rocky Mountains (Rocky Mountains) to the Pacific Ocian (Pacific Ocean) are first the Domestic Animals, consisting of the Horses and Dogs only; 2ndly the Native Wild Animals, consisting of the White, brown, or Grizly bear (which I believe to be the same family with a mearly accidentail difference in point of Colour) The Black Bear, the Elk, the Common red Deer, the Mule deer, the black tailed fallow Deer, the large brown wolf, the Small wolf of the Plains, the large wolf of the Plains, Panther, the tiger cat, the common red fox, the black fox or fisher, the Silver fox, large red fox of the plains, Small fox of the plains or kit fox, Antelope, Sheep, beaver, Common Otter, Sea Otter, minks, Seals racoons, large Grey Squerrel, Small brown Squirrel, Small grey Squirrel, Ground Squirrel, Sewelel, Braror, rat, mouse, mole, hare, rabbet, and pole Cat or Skunk.   
  • February 15, 1806
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  • Clark, William
July 8, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the men also brought me a living ground squirrel which is something larger than those of the U' States or those of that kind which are also common here.   
  • The first scientific description of the thirteen-lined ground squirrel, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus. Cutright (LCPN), 166; Jones et al., 143–45.
  • July 8, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
September 14, 1803 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • W. shore—    was here informed that there were some instances of the goitre in the neighbourhood    two women who lived on the bank of the river just below    they had emegrated to that place from the lower part of pensylvania (Pennsylvania) and had contracted the disorder since there residence on the Ohio (Ohio River) —    The fever and ague and bilious fevers here commence their banefull oppression and continue through the whole course of the river with increasing violence as your approach it's mouth—    saw many squirrels this day swiming the river from N. W. to S. E.    caught several by means of my dog (Seaman) — In Washington County (Washington County, Ohio) , Ohio (Ohio) , just above Parkersburg (Parkersburg, W.
  • September 14, 1803
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
October 27, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • In the evening our hunters came in and had killed 4 deer and some squirrels. The wind blew hard all this day. The Dalles (Columbia River, The Dalles of the (Great Narrows)) area marked the dividing line between the Shahaptian language (upstream) and the Chinookan language (downstream).
  • October 27, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
November 18, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • 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
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
October 26, 1805 - Clark, William
  • S       P M 6    34    0   67°    36'    15"     "     36    4   67      35     15     "     39    2   67      34     30 [letters illegible; "Cloudy" in Codex H] In the evening 2 Chief and 15 men came over in a Single Canoe, those Chfs proved to be the 2 great Chiefs of the tribes above, one gave me a 〈buf〉 dressed Elk Skin, and gave us Som deer meet, and 2 Cakes of white bread made of white roots, we gave to each Chief a Meadel of the Small Size a red Silk handkerchief & a knife to the 1st a arm ban & a pin of Paint & a Comb to his Son a Piece of riben tied to a tin gorget and 2 hams of Venison    They deturmined to Stay with us all night, we had a fire made for them & one man played on the violin which pleased them much    my Servent dances—    our hunters killed five Deer, 4 verry large gray Squirrels, a goose & Pheasent, one man giged a Salmon trout which we had fried in a little Bears oil which a Chief gave us yesterday and I think the finest fish I ever tasted, Saw great numbers of white Crains flying in Different directions verry high.
  • The star Fomalhaut. Probably the western gray squirrel, Sciurus griseus, then new to science. For Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) detailed description, see below, February 25, 1806.
  • October 26, 1805
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  • Clark, William
November 18, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • In the evening our hunters came in with a deer, 2 brants, a squirrel, a hawk, and a flounder, which the tide had thrown on a sand-bar.
  • November 18, 1805
  • Journals
  • Gass, Patrick
Part 2: Miscellany - Clark, William
  • .; parroquet, Carolina parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis [AOU, 382]; opossum, Didelphis virginiana; gray squirrel; hackberry, Celtis occidentalis L.; hazelnut, Corylus americana Walt.; red oak, Quercus borealis Michx.; sycamore; iron wood, hop-hornbeam, Ostrya virginiana (Mill.)
  • Koch; small grape, probably river-bank grape, Vitis riparia Michx.; large grape, Vitis sp.; wild plum; white oak, probably bur oak (see September 2, 1806); white ash, probably green ash (see September 2, 1806); American elm; prickly ash; shoemate, perhaps smooth sumac (see June 10, 1806); turkey; pointed tail prairie fowl, sharp-tailed grouse; boxelder, Acer negundo L.; black-billed magpie; fox squirrel; barking squirrel, prairie dog; Missouri whip-poor-will, common poorwill; bighorn sheep; antelope, pronghorn; mule deer; brarow, badger; yellow ocher, the mineral limonite (see July 5, 1804); choke cherry.
  • Postexpedition 1806
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  • Clark, William
October 26, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • towards evening the hunters returned to Camp had killed 5 five Deer a goose and a gray Squirrel.    they Saw a great nomber of deer in the timbered land.    we Saw a great no. of geese and ducks.   
  • They had killed 5 deer, 1 Goose & a grey squirrel.    They informed us, that they had seen a great number of deer, in the timbered land, We saw a great number of Ducks, & Geese in the River this day.—    The Indians came to our Camp this day, on Crafts made out of Cedar Wood.   
  • October 26, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
September 8, 1804 - Ordway, John
  • Clark (Clark, William) says it was a fox squirrel, Sciurus niger.
  • September 8, 1804
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  • Ordway, John
September 2, 1805 - Gass, Patrick
  • In the forenoon we killed some pheasants and ducks, and a small squirrel. In the afternoon we had a good deal of rain, and the worst road (if road it can be called) that was ever travelled.
  • September 2, 1805
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  • Gass, Patrick
February 26, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • that he saw one of them run up a tree like a squirrel and that it returned and ran into a hole in the ground.    the ears are short thin pointed and covered with short fine hair.   
  • I take this animal to be about the size of the barking squirrel of the Missouri (Missouri River) .    and beleive most probably that it is of the Mustela genus, or perhaps the brown mungo itself.
  • February 26, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • Swift fox, adult Drawing of a swift fox, adult Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Spermophilus tridecemlineatus FIG. 33 This common ground squirrel of the northern plains was not mentioned until the expedition had entered Montana, even through the species is extremely common in the Dakotas and Nebraska.
  • Like other ground squirrels, it is dormant for more than half of the year, which may reduce predation levels. FIG. 33. Thirteen-lined ground squirrel, adult (dormant) Drawing of a thirteen-lined ground squirrel, adult (dormant) Birds American Avocet Recurvirostra americana There is no doubt as to the identity of the bird shot on May 1, 1805, about 75 miles above the mouth of the Yellowstone River.
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September 13, 1803 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Lewis 13th This morning being clare we persued our journey at sunrise and after passing a few riffles over which we had to lift the boat we arrived at Marietta (Marietta, Ohio) , the mouth of the Muskingum river (Muskingum River) , at 7 OClock in the evening    observid many pigeons passing over us pursuing a south East course. The squirrels still continue to cross the river from N. W. to S. E.—Marietta (Marietta, Ohio) is one hundred miles from Wheeling (Wheeling, W.
  • September 13, 1803
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June 25, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Hordeum jubatum L., foxtail barley, or possibly Sitanion hystrix (Nutt.) J. G. Smith, squirrel tail. Hahn, Hordeum and Sitanion maps. It was probably Biddle (Biddle, Nicholas) who drew a red vertical line through this passage and those about the mint and turtle.
  • June 25, 1805
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May 23, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Clark's (Clark, William) "heath hens" may be the same bird or some other, unknown grouse. Columbian ground squirrel, Spermophilus columbianus, a new species. See Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) longer description at May 27, 1806.
  • May 23, 1806
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Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • A few additional western or northern species, such as the Columbian ground squirrel, lynx, and moose, were likewise deemed to be of doubtful species identification or of questionable geographic affinities.
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October 21, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Clark (Clark, William) evidently means that he did all his hunting with a relatively small-caliber "Kentucky (Kentucky) " long rifle, or "squirrel gun," probably his own property. Russell (FTT), 38.
  • October 21, 1804
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July 4, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • land poor—    encamped in a handsom high timbered bottom near the river where there was fine grass killed grown squirrel of speceis different from any I had seen Ms. 18   A "Pallote pellow (Palouse Indians) ," according to the Codex L entry, next.
  • July 4, 1806
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April 9, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • .—    Capt Clark (Clark, William) walked on shore to-day and informed me on his return, that passing through the prarie he had seen an anamal that precisely resembled the burrowing squrril, accept in point of size, it being only about one third as large as the squirrel, and that it also burrows. I have observed in many parts of the plains and praries the work of an anamal of which I could never obtain a view.   
  • The majority of the brant were probably Branta bernicla [AOU, 173]. Probably Richardson's ground squirrel, Spermophilus richardsonii. Burroughs, 102; Jones et al., 137–41.
  • April 9, 1805
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May 24, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the next stream in order is a creek which falls in on Lard. 2 ½ miles higher; this is 15 yds. wide no water; a large village of the burrowing or barking squirrels on the Stard. side opposite it's entrance, hence the name Little dog Ck.
  • in a bend Std. side S. 20° W.   1 To a point of wood Stard. point opposite to a bluff S. 75° W.      ¼ Along the Stard. point opposite to a bluff N. 65° W.   1 Along the Stard. side opposite an Island near the Lard side under a bluff in a bend, a creek falls in above this bluff opposite to a Village of burrowing squirrels N. 45° W.      ¼ To a point on the Lard. side, passing bad water— N. 70° W.   2 ¾ To a grove of trees at the entrance of a Creek in a bend on Stard. passing a stard. point at 1 ½ miles S. 48° W.   1 To a point of woodland Lard. side.
  • May 24, 1805
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June 30, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • in descending the creek this morning on the steep side of a high hill my horse sliped and both his hinder feet out of the road and fell, I also fell off backwards and slid near 40 feet down the hill before I could stop myself such was the steepness of the declivity; the horse was near falling on me in the first instance but fortunately recovers and we both escaped unhirt. I saw a small grey squirrel today much like those of the Pacific (Pacific Ocean) coast only that the belly of this was white.
  • Space, 39. Probably Richardson's red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus richardsoni. See February 24 and 25, 1806; and Burroughs, 98–99.
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