After an early start at the salt makers’ camp, Clark hikes and canoes well into the dark to return to Fort Clatsop. During the day, a dozen Kathlamets visit Lewis and elk become scarce.
Captain Clark Returns
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
A Chief’s Party – Qagyuhl (cropped)
Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952)
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries.[2]“A Chief’s Party – Qágyuhl”, Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian. Accessed Wed Jan 11 2023. … Continue reading
Šax̣awaq̀ap Visits
I was visited by Tia Shâh-hâr-wâr-cap and eleven of his nation in one large canoe; these are the Cuth’-lah-mah’ nation who reside first above us on the South Side of the Columbia river . . . . I gave him a medal of the smallest size; he presented me with some indian tobacco and a bacquit of wappetoe, in return for which I gave him some thread for making a skiming net and a small piece of tobacco.
—Meriwether Lewis
Scarce Elk
This morning Drewyer and Collins returned having killed two Elk only, and one of those had died in their view over a small lake which they had not the means of passing it being late in the evening and has of course spoiled, as it laid with the entrals in it all night . . . . meat has now become scarce with us.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Clark Returns
I Set out at Sunrise with the party waded the Clat Sop river which I found to be 85 Steps across and 3 feet deep, on the opposite Side a Kil a mox Indian Came to and offered to Sell Some roots of which I did not want, he had a robe made of 2 large Sea otter Skins which I offered to purchase, but he would not part with them . . . . I arrived at the Canoes about Sunset, the tides was Comeing in I thought it a favourable time to go on to the fort at which place we arrived at 10 oClock P M
—William Clark
Weather Diary
aspect of the weather at rise
Wind at Weather at 4 OC. P.M. Wind at 4 OC. P.M. fair after rain S. W. clouds after fair S. W Various flies and insects now alive and in motion.
—Meriwether Lewis[3]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of the month” column and spelled out some abbreviations.
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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 | “A Chief’s Party – Qágyuhl”, Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian. Accessed Wed Jan 11 2023. dc.library.northwestern.edu/items/6596e318-b390-473d-bcf2-a5e75c428052. |
| ↑3 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of the month” column and spelled out some abbreviations. |
