The captains are in St. Louis attending to “Sunderery Stores.” At the Wood River across from the mouth of the Missouri, work continues under Sgt. Ordway‘s charge.
Parched Corn and Small Keg
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Attending to Stores
Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11, attending to Sunderey Stores &c
—William Clark
Ordering Provisions
An undated memorandum between Clark and Lewis provides some insight as to the types of tasks the captains are attending to in St. Louis.
[April 1804]
Memorandom of Artecles which may be wanting
. . . .
Note if we have 47 men and have a Perogue [pirogue] sufficiently large
2000 lbs Pork sent 5 barrels 2000 " Flour { do. 5 do. of Contr. to be furnished 5 Bar: Corn Sent 25½ bushels of lyed corn 5 bar. whiskey } Woolford has that qty. in store Note—The Contractor will take Woodfords whiskey @ 1 Dol. pr. Gal. I think we will find that we cannot take more provision than the quantity sent. M. Lewis.[1]Clark to Lewis. Written in Clark’s hand with Lewis’s responses set here in italics. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd … 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 E fair fall 7 ½ in. —William Clark[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some 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 responses 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), 175–176. |
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| ↑2 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
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