Near present Vermillion, South Dakota, Pvt. J. Field has the expedition’s first bison kill. They gather the meat and move up the river about ten miles before stopping to preserve the day’s harvest. Blowing sand turns the plains white and hampers Clark‘s journal writing while Lewis collects a mineral specimen of selenite.
First Bison Killed
by Yellowstone Public Radio[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
First Bison Kill
American Bison Bull
Bison bison
© 2013 July 27 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Jo. Fields came to the Boat informed us that he had killed a Bull Buffelow, Capt. Lewis & myself & 10 more of the party went out Bucherd & Brought it to the Boat . . . . we pickled down our Buffelow meat, & jerked the venison
—John Ordway
Blowing Sand
wind blew hard
I am obliged to make the next Corses Short on ackountof the flying Sands which rasies like a Cloud of Smoke from the Bars when the wind Blows, the Sand . . . Sticks to every thing it touches at this time the grass is white
—William Clark
Selenite, Mineral Specimen No. 6
23 Aug 1804, found exuding from a Strata of Sand rock on [one] of the Bluffs—
—Meriwether Lewis, Donation Book
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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