Bon Homme Island, NE-SD The expedition leaves Pierre Dorion and the Yankton Sioux behind. They pass cliffs of white chalk and camp on Bon Homme island, now inundated behind Point Gavins Dam. Several catfish are caught and Lewis collects another plant specimen.
A New Species of Cottonwood[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
South Dakota Bluffs Viewed from Nebraska Shore
“Geologic Age: Cretaceous, Pierre Shales, Photograph No. 425,” courtesy University of Iowa.
White Bear Cliff
pass Calumet Bluff of a yellowish read & a brownish white Hard clay . . . . this (Bluff) Clift is Called White Bear Clift one of those animals haveing been killed in a whole in it
—William Clark
Plenty of Catfish
numbers of Cat fish cought, those fish is so plenty that we catch them at any time and place in the river
—William Clark
Wild Four-o’clock
Mirabilis nyctaginea
By Jim Pisarowicz, public domain.
Wild four-o’clock Specimen
Open plains. Septbr: 1st 1804.
—Frederick Pursh‘s copy of Meriwether Lewis‘s label[2]Mirabilis nyctaginea, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 113.
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 | Mirabilis nyctaginea, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 113. |
