At the Fort Clatsop construction site, the captains trade for bobcat and lynx furs. Two hunters return having left several butchered elk in the woods, and workers attempt to split grand fir into boards.
A Different Kind of Winter Camp
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
Bobcat
© 2009 by Wayne Dumbleton. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC-BY-SA 2.0) license.
Bobcat and Lynx Furs
The Clatsops leave us to day after a brackfast on Elk which they appeared to be very fond of before they left us they Sold me two robes of the Skins of a Small animal about the Size of a Cat, and to Captain Lewis 2 Cat or Loucirva Skins for the purpose of makeing a Coat.
—William Clark
Eighteen More Elk
Drewyer & Shannon returned from hunting, haveing killed 18 Elk & left them boochered in the woods near the right fork of the river about 6 miles above this place—
—William Clark
Splitting Grand Fir
we Continue to put up the Streight butifull balsom pine [Grand Fir] on our houses—and we are much pleased to find that the timber Splits most butifully and to the width of 2 feet or more.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Day of the Month Winds State of the Weather 13th S W. rain rained moderately all last night and to day
—Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has spelled out some abbreviations.
Fort Clatsop is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site is managed by the Lewis and Clark National and State Historic Parks.
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 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has spelled out some abbreviations. |
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