In the morning, ice covers standing water. With a “fine breeze up from the S. E.”, they sail much of the day making twenty-four miles through the Upper Missouri River Breaks. Above present-day Kipp Recreation Area, they set up camp and wait for the hunters and scouts to return.
Ice Covers Standing Water
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
Missouri River Breaks
Armells Creek
© 25 July 2013 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Above: Armells Creek had a recent flash flood. Clark, York, and the Charbonneau family would barely escape their own flash flood at the Great Falls of the Missouri on 29 June 1805.
we sent a man up this creek to explore the country he returned late in the evening and informed that he had proceeded ten miles directly towards these mountains . . . . this we called South Mountain creek
—Meriwether Lewis
Missouri River, Kipp Recreation Area
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A Fine Breeze
We set out at an early hour this morning and proceed on principally by the chord untill about 9 A. M. when a fine breeze sprung up from the S. E. and enabled us though the ballance of the day to employ our sails to advantage; we proceed at a pretty good pace notwithstanding the courant of the river was very strong
—Meriwether Lewis
Detached Hunters
a Short distance below the place we dined 2 canoes & 6 men waited & got the best of the meat. did not joine the party this evening.
—John Ordway
Weather Diary
State of thermometer at rise
Weather Wind at State of thermometer at 4 P. M. Weather Wind at 4 P. M. State of the river 32 [above 0] fair N. W. 68 [above 0] fair S. E. raised 3 ½ in. frost last night ice 1/8 of an inch thick
—Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “State of the river” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.
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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| ↑2 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “State of the river” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
