Williston and Tobacco Garden Creek, ND Clark walks the shore while Sacagawea gathers currants. They make six miles before breakfast. Lewis’s group pauses a day so that they can make leather, sew new clothes, and hunt. Two lost hunters catch up.
Clark Walks on Shore[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
Golden Currant
Ribes Aureum
Near Sulpher Spring, 29 June 2013. © by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Sacagawea Gathers Currants
Six Miles Before Breakfast
a heavy dew this morning. loaded the Canoes and proceeded on down about 6 miles and landed at the Camp of the 2 hunters Shields and Gibson whome I had Sent down to hunt last evening . . . . here I took brackfast
—William Clark
Gathering Currants
The Squar [Sacagawea] brought me a large and well flavoured Goose berry of a rich Crimsin Colour, and deep purple berry of the large Cherry of the Current Speces which is common on this river as low as the Mandans, the engagees Call it the Indian Current.
—William Clark
Large Elk
I landed opposit to a high plain on the S. E. Side late in the evening and walked in a Grove of timber where I met with an Elk which I killed. this Elk was the largest Buck I ever Saw and the fattest animal which have been killed on the rout. I had the flesh and fat of this Elk brought to Camp and cut thin ready to dry.
—William Clark
Deer Hide Shirt on Linen Cloth
© 2014 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Lewis: Sewing and Hunting
Making New Clothes
the men were all engaged dressing skins and making themselves cloathes except R [Reubin Field] & J. Fields whom I sent this morning over the river with orders to proceed to the entrance of the White earth river in surch of Capt. C. and to hunt . . . . they found no game nor was there a buffaloe to be seen in the plains as far as the eye could reach.
—Meriwether Lewis
Weather Diaries
State of the weather at rise
Wind at State of the weather at 4 P. M. Wind at 4 P. M. fair N E fair S. E. heavy dew last night. air cold.
—Meriwether Lewis
State of the weather at Sun rise State of wind at Sunrise State of the weather at 4 P. M. Wind at 4 P. M. State of river fair N. E fair N. E. fall 1 ¼ in. a heavy dew. air cool and clear found red goose berries and a dark purple current & Service’s [serviceberry]
—William Clark[2]To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is omitted, some abbreviations have been spelled out, and the three river columns have been merged.
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 of this web page, the date column is omitted, some abbreviations have been spelled out, and the three river columns have been merged. |
