Day-by-Day / August 12, 1804

August 12, 1804

Rounding Snyder Bend

Snyder Bend Park, IA During the night, mosquitoes torment the men. At day, they travel around an eighteen-mile bend in the Missouri River that can be crossed by land in less than a mile.

Prairie Wolf at Camp’s Edge[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

Long River Bend

we Set off eairly this morning. proceeded on round a bend which was 18 miles Round by water & only little better than half a mile a cross by land
John Ordway

Annoying Coyote

L. & My Self wen on Shore to Shoot a Prarie wolf [coyote] which was barking at us as we passed This Prarie Wolf barked like a large fest [feist] and is not much larger,
William Clark

Weiser Replaces Thompson

Wiser [Weiser] apt. Cook & Supentdt. of the Provisions of Sergt. Floyds Squad. we Camped on a Sand Island in a bend to the S. S. Musquitors verry troublesome
—William Clark

 

Notes

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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  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.