Day-by-Day / August 15, 1804

August 15, 1804

Dragging for fish

At Fish Camp near present Homer, Nebraska, Clark has a fishing net made to drag through a beaver pond, and they catch over 300 fish. When smoke appears, fur trader Pierre Dorion looks for Indians.

Productive Beaver Pond

went out to Beaver Dam across a Creek about a mile S W from Camp, and with a Brush Drag caught 308 fish, of the following kind (i’e) Pike, Samon, Bass, Pirch, Red horse, Small Cat, & a kind of Perch Called on the Ohio Silverfish I also Caught the Srimp which is Common to the Lower part of the Mississippi, in this Creek & in the Beaver Pond is emince beads of Mustles Verry large & fat—
William Clark

Dorion Pursues Signals

in my absence Capt Lewis Send the Souex interpr & a party to a Smoke which appeared to rise at no great distance to the north . . . . in the evening this Party returned and infoermed, that the fire arrose from Some trees which had been left burning by a Small party of Seoux whom had passed Several Days—
—William Clark

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Discover More

  • 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.