Winter Camp, Wood River, Illinois
Drouillard and Ordway leave for Cahokia while Clark implements a new guard duty roster. Lewis continues working in Cahokia and St. Louis.
Camp River Dubois Sunrise
Photo provided by Lewis & Clark State Historic Site, Hartford, Illinois. Used by permission.
Errands
Snow in the morning I move into my hut, Cloudy morning Colter Kill a Deer & a turkey, Drewyer & Serjt. Odway [ Ordway] set out for Kohokia, I arrange the guards on a new plan, wrote to Cap Lewis
—William Clark
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.