At Fort Clatsop near present Astoria, Oregon, Pvts. Willard and Colter return from the salt works reporting that two men there are very sick. Willard has cut his knee with his tomahawk while butchering elk, and Lewis describes two maples common to the area.
Willard Arrives from the Salt Camp
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
Big Leaf Maple
Acer macrophyllum
© 2006 by Walter Siegmund. Permission granted under the GNU Free Documentation license, Version 1.2 or any later version.
Two Salt Makers Return
Willard . . . . had cut his knee very badly with his tommahawk. he had killed four Elk not far from the Salt works the day before yesterday, which he had butched and took a part of the meat to camp, but having cut his knee was unable to be longer ucefull at the works and had returned.
—Meriwether Lewis
Bratton and Gibson Unwell
he informed us that Bratton was very unwell, and that Gibson was so sick that he could not set up or walk alone and had desired him to ask us to have him brought to the Fort.
—Meriwether Lewis
Big Leaf Maples
There is a tree common to the Columbia river below the enterance of Cataract River which in its appearance when divested of its folage, much resembles the white ash
—Meriwether Lewis
Vine Maple
Acer circinatum
© 2007 by Walter Siegmund. Permission granted under the GNU Free Documentation license, Version 1.2 or any later version.
Vine Maples
In the Same part of the countrey there is also another groth, which resembles the white maple in its appearance, only that it is by no means so large, seldom being more than from 6 to 9 inches in diamieter, and from 20 to 30 feet high; they frequently grow in clusters as if from the same bed or root, Spreading and leaning outwards.
—Meriwether Lewis
Weather Diary
aspect of the weather at rise
Wind at aspect of the weather at 4 OC1 P.M. Wind at 4 O’Clock P.M. cloudy after rain, hail & snow N. cloudy after fair & cloudy S. W 10th Snow covered the ground this morning disappeared before evening. sun shown 2 hours
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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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| ↑2 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of ye Month” column and spelled out some abbreviations. |
