A birch bark canoe belonging to trader Lewis Crawford and bound for the Mackinac post sets out from the expedition’s winter camp at the Wood River. Clark distributes knives and tomahawks to the enlisted men, and in the evening, it snows for a short time.
Algonquin Birch Bark Canoe
© Canadian Canoe Museum, Photo by Michael Cullen.
Tomahawks and Knives
the Bark Canoo set out for Mackenaeck, give out Knives Tomahawkes &c. &c. to the men, Sgt. Pryor Still Sick, Several Countrey people Came to Camp to day
—William Clark
Evening Snow
at about 9 oClock P M began to Snow and Continued a Short time, wind blew hard from the N West
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Thermometr. at rise
Weather Wind at Sunrise Thermometr. at 4 oClock Weather Wind at 4 oClock River 26 above 0 clouds and rain N W snow after rain fall 4 ½ in. a large flock of Pellicans [likely the American White Pelican] appear.
—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
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- 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.
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