Day-by-Day / October 5, 1805

October 5, 1805

Two Nez Perce guides

Clearwater Canoe Camp, ID Two canoes are put in the water, and the horses are rounded up, branded, and given to Nez Perce caretakers. The expedition adds two Nez Perce guides, Tetoharsky and Twisted Hair.

Two Dugout Canoes

Two small dugout canoes in the water

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Branding Horses[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

Branding Horses

got up all our horses 38 in number. we branded them on the near fore Shoulder with a Stirrup Iron, and cropped their fore mane So as we may know them at our return.
—John Ordway

Lewis’s branding iron would not have been used on horses.
Also related: Horse Chronicles | Indian Horses in the PNW

Two Nez Perce Guides

the old chief [Twisted Hair] who we leave the care of our horses with has engaged to go on with us past his nation and leave the horses in the care of his two sons our officers gave them Some Small presents &C. another Chief [Tetoharsky] engaged to go with us also.
—John Ordway

Related: Lewis and Clark through Nez Perce Eyes

Full of Wind

nothing to eate but dried roots & Dried fish, Capt Lewis & my Self eate a Supper of roots boiled, which filled us So full of wind, that we were Scercely able to Breathe all night felt the effects of it.
—William Clark

Related: Salmon | Cous Root | Camas | Biscuitroots

Launching Two Canoes

Lanced [Launched] 2 Canoes to day one proved a little leakey the other a verry good one
William Clark

Related: Testing Dugout Canoes | The Dugout Canoes of Lewis and Clark by William W. Bevis

Determining Latitude

Latitude of this place from the mean of two observations is 46° 34′ 56.3″ North—
—William Clark

Related: Clearwater Canoe Camp Observations by Robert N. Bergantino | Formal Navigation by John Logan Allen

 

Weather Diary

Day of the month Wind State of the Weather
5th E fair

Note from the 1st to 7th of October we were at the mouth of Chopunnuish river makeing Canoes to Decend the Kooskooske [Clearwater].
—William Clark[2]Some abbreviations have been spelled out.

Related: Weather Observations

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 Some abbreviations have been spelled out.

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.

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Unless otherwise noted, journal excerpts are from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton, 13 vols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983-2001).