At winter camp on the Wood River, several local settlers lose their money in marksmanship contests with the enlisted men. All hands and John Hay are otherwise busy packing for their upcoming departure up the Missouri. Lewis continues his work in St. Louis.
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Staged by Pacific Northwest Living Historians. Photo © 2019 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Markmanship Contests
Mr. Hay packing up all hands at work prepareing. Several Country men Came to win my mens money, in doing So lost all they had, with them.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Thermometr. at rise
Weather Wind at Sunrise Thermometr. at 4 oClock Weather Wind at 4 oClock River 38 above [0] fair N. W 72 above fair N. W. fall 7 in. —Meriwether Lewis[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
| ↑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. |
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