From Travelers’ Rest near present Lolo, Montana, hunters disperse in several directions. Pvt. Colter brings three Indians to camp, and the captains learn about the Northern Nez Perce Trail that will take them to the Clearwater River. Pvt. Whitehouse reports that the area’s abundant choke cherries have recently been harvested.
Travelers’ Rest
© 11 September 2009 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Exploring Clark Fork
The morning being fair I sent out all the hunters, and directed two of them to procede down the river as far as it’s junction with the Eastern fork which heads near the missouri, and return this evening. this fork of the river we determined to name the Valley plain river.
—Meriwether Lewis
Choke Cherries
Prunus virginiana
Bitterroot Valley, 5 September 2013. © by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Choke Cherries Abound
considerable of cotton timber on this creek the choke cherries abound on its bottoms. the natives has lately gethered an amence quantities of them here for food, as they mooved up
—Joseph Whitehouse
Three Indian Travelers
this evening one of our hunters [John Colter] returned accompanyed by three men of the Flathead nation whom he had met in his excurtion up travellers rest Creek. on first meeting him the Indians were allarmed and prepared for battle with their bows and arrows, but he soon relieved their fears by laying down his gun and advancing towards them.
—Meriwether Lewis
Six Days Travel
he said it would require five sleeps wich is six days travel, to reach his relations.
—Meriwether Lewis
Equal Altitudes
The day proved fair and we took equal altitudes & Some luner observations. The Latd. 46° 48′ 28″
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Weather at rise
Wind at Weather at 4 P.M. Wind at 4 P.M. fair N W fair N W Met 3 flat head Indians in the pursute of 2 Snake indians who had taken their horses
—Meriwether Lewis[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column and spelled out some abbreviations.
Travelers’ Rest is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site, managed by the Travelers’ Rest Preservation & Heritage Association, is a Montana State Park with interpretive trail and a visitor center.
Notes
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- The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
- The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
- The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.
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