The expedition moves to a base camp at a former Nez Perce village across the Clearwater River from present Kamiah, Idaho. With the help of the Nez Perce, baggage, horses, and people are ferried across the river. Broken Arm and Red Grizzly Bear show the captains how they castrate horses, and the captains give the latter a grizzly bear claw necklace.
Establishing Long Camp
Long Camp Today
8 May 2011, © Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
The Long Camp site was built at an empty Nez Perce village. The lumber mill later built there—shown above—is no longer operational and the site is once again Nez Perce Tribal Lands.
The Long Camp Site, 1902
Olin D. Wheeler, The Trail of Lewis and Clark. See also Wheeler’s “Trail of Lewis and Clark”.
Olin Wheeler took this photograph of the site of Long Camp in 1902. Situated “within 40 paces of the river in an extensive level bottom thinly timbered with the longleafed [ponderosa] pine.” Wheeler scraped the snow away to show the remains of the raised perimeter.
this was a very eligible spot for defence it had been an ancient habitation of the Indians . . . . here we are in the vicinity of the best hunting grounds from indian information, are convenient to the salmon which we expect daily and have an excellent pasture for our horses . . . . in short as we are compelled to reside a while in this neighbourhood I feel perfectly satisfyed with our position.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Crossing the Clearwater
at 10 A. M. we had taken our baggage over and collected our horses, we then took breakfast, after which we drove our horses into the river which they swam without accedent and all arrived safe on the opposite shore.
—Meriwether Lewis
Broken Arm and Hohots Ilpplip Visit
immediately after we had passed the river Tunnachemootoolt and Hosâstillpilp arrived on the south side with a party of a douzen of their young men; they began to sing in token of friendship as is their custom, and we sent the canoe over for them.
—Meriwether Lewis
Hunting Grizzly Bear
This nation esteem the Killing of one of those tremendeous animals (the Bear) equally great with that of an enemy in the field of action—. we gave the Claws of those bear which Collins had killed to Hohâstillpelp.
—William Clark
Nez Perce Castration Method
one of the indians present offered his services on this occasion. he cut them without tying the string of the stone as is usual, and assures us that they will do much better in that way . . . . we shall have an opportunity of judging whether this is a method preferable to that commonly practiced as Drewyer had gelded two in the usual way.
—Meriwether Lewis
Weather Diary
State of the Weather at rise
Wind at State of the Weather at 4 P.M. Wind at 4 P.M. State of the Kooskooskee fair S W fair S W —Meriwether Lewis[1]To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is not presented, the river columns have been merged, and some abbreviations have been spelled out.
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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