In St. Louis, the captains are attending to “Sunderey Stores”. Their Weather Diary notes that the Chickasaw plums are leaving and budding. Across the Mississippi at Camp River Dubois, work continues under Sgt. Ordway‘s charge.
Chickasaw Plum
Prunus angustifolia
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Attending to Stores
Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11, attending to Sunderey Stores &c
—William Clark
Swivel Guns
Sometime in April, Clark and Lewis considered placing two large muskets on swivels on the stern of the barge.
[April 1804]
Memorandom of Artecles which may be wanting
. . . .
If 2 muskets were hung on Swivels in the Stern it would be well. Do as you please on this subject. [1]Clark to Lewis. Written in Clark’s hand with Lewis’s response set here in italics. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed. … Continue reading
Weather Diary
Thermometr. at rise
Weather Wind at Sunrise Thermometr. at 4 oClock Weather Wind at 4 oClock River 18 above 0 fair N W fair fall 6 ½ in. no appearance of the buds of the Osage Apple, the Osage Plumb has put forth their leaves and flower buds. tho it is not completely in bloe.
—William Clark[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of month” and “River feet” columns and spelled out some of the 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.
In present St. Louis, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial “commemorates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the continental expansion of the United States” and is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service.
Notes
| ↑1 | Clark to Lewis. Written in Clark’s hand with Lewis’s response set here in italics. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 175. |
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| ↑2 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of month” and “River feet” columns and spelled out some of the abbreviations. |
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