Winter Camp at Wood River, IL The morning brings fresh snow and the Mississippi River is iced over. The hunters bring in several rabbits. Lewis is working in either Cahokia or St. Louis.
Hunting Rabbits
Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
Sylvilagus floridanus
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a Snow fall last night of about an Inch [and one] half The river falling and running with Ice, a fair Sun shineing morning— the party Caught 14 Rabits to day & 7 yesterday. a Cold afternoon. The Mississippi, is Closed with Ice.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Therm. at rise
weather wind Therm. at 4 oClock weather wind River fair after snow fair Snow’d last night
—Meriwether Lewis and 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.
Notes
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