Vermillion, SD Joseph Field kills the expedition’s first buffalo. Lewis takes a large group to butcher it and bring the meat back to the boats. The blowing sand makes it hard to see and turns the plains white.
American Buffalo Bull
Bison bison
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First Buffalo Killed[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
Blowing Sand
The Wind blew hard West and raised the Sands off the bar in Such Clouds that we Could Scercely See this Sand being fine and verry light Stuck to every thing it touched . . . . the grass is white
—William Clark
First Buffalo Killed
Jo. Fields came to the Boat informed us that he had killed a Bull Buffelow, Capt. Lewis & myself & 10 more of the party went out Bucherd & Brought it to the Boat . . . . we pickled down our Buffelow meat, & jerked the venison
—John Ordway
Selenite, Mineral Specimen No. 6
23 Aug 1804, found exuding from a Strata of Sand rock on [one] of the Bluffs—
—Meriwether Lewis, Donation Book
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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