The day at winter quarters on present Wood River, Illinois is spent packing provisions such as corn, flour, and salt. Moses Reed is sent to St. Louis to run errands.
Keg of Hulled Corn
Taken with cooperation from the Fort Mandan Visitors’ Center. Photo © 2013 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
St. Louis Errands
I sent Reed to St Louis with a letter & Some [Scerlet?] &c. Locks to be mended
—William Clark
Packing Provisions
I had finished off and packed up to day in part of my Store of Provisions—
13 Bags of Parched meal of 2 bus: each
9 do— Common Meal of N C— do
11 do & 3 barrels of N: Corn Huled do
3 do: & 30 —½ do—of Flour— do
7 Barrels of Salt of 2 ½ bushels each— do
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Thermometr. at rise
Weather Wind at Sunrise Thermometr. at 4 oClock Weather Wind at 4 oClock River 30 above 0 fair S W fair fall 5 in. —William Clark[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.
Winter Camp at Wood River (Camp Dubois) is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site, near Hartford, Illinois, is managed as Lewis and Clark State Historic Site and is open to the public.
In present St. Louis, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial “commemorates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the continental expansion of the United States” and is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service.
Notes
| ↑1 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
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