After a cloudy morning at Eagle Creek, they tow the boats through the last stretches of the Upper Missouri River Breaks. They see distant mountains and blooming currants, chokecherries, and prickly pears.
A Fine View of the Mountains
by Yellowstone Public Radio[1]Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © … Continue reading
Early Eagle Creek Morning
© 22 May 2016 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
A Cloudy Morning
a Cloudy morning we Set out at an early hour and proseeded on as usial with the toe rope
—William ClarkCame 24 miles & Camped on the 7th Isld. a Small Island covered with timber. had passd. 2 little below
—Joseph Whitehouse
Mountain Views
a mountain or a part of the N. Mountain appears to approach the river within 8 or 10 ms. bearing N. from our encampment of the last evening.
—Meriwether Lewis
Plains Prickly Pear Blossom
Opuntia macrorhiza
Dugout Coulee near the Marias River, 21 July 2011. © by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Spring Blooms
The roses are in full bloom we saw yallow berrys, red berry bushes great nombers wild or choke Cherries, prickly prairs [prickly pears] are in the blossom we Saw great nombers of them.
—John Ordway
Other Sightings
Weather Diary
State of the thermometer at rise
Weather Wind at State of the thermometer at 4 OC. P.M. Weather Wind at 4 OC. P. M. State of river 50 [above 0] cloudy S. W. 62 [above 0] cloudy 1 ½ in. —Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “State of the river” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.
Notes
| ↑1 | Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © 2003 by Yellowstone Public Radio. |
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| ↑2 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “State of the river” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
