Day-by-Day / July 28, 1804

July 28, 1804

A Missouria visitor

While out hunting, Drouillard meets a Missouria man who lives with the Otoes, and he brings him to the evening’s camp west of present Crescent, Iowa. The captains learn that most of the Otoes are away hunting buffalo.

Encounter with a Plains Indian

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

Travel Above Present-Day Omaha

We set out early; had a cloudy morning: passed some beautiful hills and prairies, and a creek called Round-Knob creek, on the north side; and high bluffs on the south.
Patrick Gass

A Missouria Visitor

G Drewyer brought in a Missourie [Missouria] Indian which he met with hunting in the Prarie This Indian is one of the fiew remaining of that nation, & lives with the Otteauz [Otoes], his Camp about 4 miles from the river, he informs that the ‘great gangue’ of the nation were hunting the Buffalow in the Plains.
—William Clark

 

Notes

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.
2 “Missouri Indianer. Indien Missouri. Missouri Indian; Oto Indianer. Indien Oto. Oto Indian; Chef der Puncas. Chef des Puncas. Chief of the Puncas.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 11, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-c431-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Discover More

  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.