Winter Camp at Wood River, IL The weather warms and the hunters bring in deer, turkeys, and rabbits. Lewis continues working in Cahokia and St. Louis.
Turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
Danielle Langlois, 19 December 2005. Permission granted under the Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Snowy Night
Som Snow fell last night, a Cloudy morning, the river continues to fall, & Some Ice running, at 8 oClock this morning the Thermormeter Stood at 13° above 0
—William Clark
Deer and Turkey
Gibson Killed 3 Deer & Colter 3 Turkey, Shields 4 Turkey, Worne [Werner] & Thompson 14 rabits—
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Therm. at rise
weather wind Therm. at 4 oClock weather wind River 13 above 0 cloudy N W 11 above 0 cloudy N W fall no ice running
—Meriwether Lewis and William Clark[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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