At Wood River, the day is snowy and the journalists record little else. The captains are likely in St. Louis preparing for the transfer of Upper Louisiana and organizing an Osage delegation for Washington City.
Native American Throwing Sticks
From a display at the Great Falls Lewis & Clark Visitor Center managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Photo © 2015 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Throwing sticks are also called spear throwers, propulsuers, woomeras, and atlatls.
Questions for the Louisiana Indians
Inquiries relitive to the Indians of Louisiania.
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Any information of the Indians of Louisiania so far as you may be inabled, at your Leasure dureing this winter either from Materials which may be in your possession, or such as you may have it in your power to acquire would be most sinceerly acknowledged by me; the Interest you feel for the extention of General Science would I have no doubt more than any other consideration form your inducement to comply with this request and [end of manuscript]
—William Clark[1]Undated and unsigned list written in Clark’s hand. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, … Continue reading
Weather Diary
Therm at rise
weather wind Therm at 4 Oclk weather wind River 4 above 0 clouds & snow N W 6 above 0 cloudy after snow N W fall 2 in. began to Snow and Continued all day
—William Clark and Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “day of month 1804” column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.
Experience the Lewis and Clark Trail
The Lewis and Clark Trail Experience—our sister site at lewisandclark.travel—connects the world to people and places on the Lewis and Clark Trail.
Plan a trip related to February 28, 1804:
- Winter Camp at Wood River (Camp Dubois)
- Along the Mississippi (Inspiration Trip)
- Around St. Louis (Inspiration Trip)
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 | Undated and unsigned list written in Clark’s hand. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 157. |
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| ↑2 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “day of month 1804” column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
