Winter Camp at Wood River, IL Clark and Lewis work with St. Louis fur trader Pierre Chouteau to send a delegation of Osage Indians to Washington City. Lewis encourages Chouteau to take the group himself.
Pierre Chouteau, Sr. (1758–1849)
Clarence Hoblitzelle (1897)
Courtesy Missouri History Museum, N22207.
The Osage Delegation
Camp at River Dubois.
Feby. 18th 1804.My Dear Friend,
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My complyments to Mr. C. Chouteau [Pierre Chouteau] and inform him if you please that nothing has given me more pleasure than the proposition he has made to you on the subject of the Osages—that as he wishes, every circumstance in relation to this affair shall be kept a profound secret. I wish him not only to bring in some of those Chiefs (the number hereafter to be agreed on) but wish him to attend them to the seat of the government of the U’States provided he can make it convenient to do so . . . .
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M. LEWIS. Capt. &c.[1]Lewis to Clark. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 168.
Weather Diary
Therm at rise
weather wind Therm at 4 Oclk weather wind River 10 above 0 fair N.W. rise 1 ft. 7 ½ in. —Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “day of month 1804” 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
| ↑1 | Lewis to Clark. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 168. |
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| ↑2 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “day of month 1804” column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
