At Rope Walk Camp near present-day Waverly, Missouri, the hunters kill five deer and a bear. The men coat themselves with bear grease to deter the mosquitoes and finish 600 feet of new rope and 20 new oars.
Drying Meat and Greasing Up
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
Common American Deer
Drawn from Nature by J. W. Audubon
On Stone by Wm. E. Hitchcock Lithograph Printed & Colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Original size, 8 x 4 in. Courtesy Special Collections and Archives. University of Idaho Library. SPEC QL715A9 1849.
Rope Walk Camp
We remain’d here this day, in the forenoon of which we had severe thunder & lightning after which succeeded a Violent rain, in the afternoon it cleared up, and all hands were employed in finishing the Oars & Ropes
—Joseph Whitehouse
Hunting Report
our hunters killed five deer and a bear. On the south side there is high land and a long prairie; on the north the land is level and well timbered, with ash, sugar tree, black walnut, buck-eye, cotton wood and some other timber.
—Patrick Gass
Mosquito Grease
the party Drying meat & greesing themselves . . . . Dry our wet Sales &c. in the evening, The misquiter verry bad
—William Clark
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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