Day-by-Day / September 8, 1804

September 8, 1804

Truteau's old trading house

With favorable winds, the boats make 17 miles up the Missouri. They pass Jean Baptiste Truteau’s old trading house, and they are now entirely within present South Dakota. Pvt. Shannon is still missing.

Great Quantity of Game 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

Truteau’s Trading House

passed the house of Troodo where he wintered in 96. Called the Pania [Ponca] house
William Clark

On the Lard. shore 3½ miles below Mr. Trudeau’s House, Observed sun symbol‘s Magnetic azimuth with Circumfertr
Meriwether Lewis

Wolves Take Hat

I went out with one of our men, who had killed a buffaloe and left his hat to keep off the vermin and beasts of prey; but when we came to the place, we found the wolves had devoured the carcase and carried off the hat.
Patrick Gass

Wild Rice Specimen

No. 59. 8th Sept. the growth of moist and very wet prairies
—Meriwether Lewis[2]Zizania palustris, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 177.

 

Notes

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.
2 Zizania palustris, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 177.

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