Oacoma, SD The expedition passes the creek where Shannon had waited to be rescued. Gass and Reubin Field spend the night twelve miles up the White River. Lewis adds three plant specimens to his collection, and Casa Calvo urges his Spanish superiors to stop the expedition.
White River
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The White River[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
Shannon’s Creek
we Set of eairly this morning. passed a creek on s. s. where George Shannon Camped Six days in a Timbered bottom we call this creek Shannons Creek
—John Ordway
Exploring the White River
Sergt. Gass & R. Fields went up white River Some distance. they found it to be a handsom river and a handsom country.
—Joseph Whitehouse
Spiny Goldenweed
Machaeranthera pinnatifida
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Silky Wormwood Specimen
No 52 Sept. 15th 1804.
growth of the open Plains
—Meriwether Lewis[2]Artemisia dracunculus, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 18.
Canada Milkvetch Specimen
No. 46 The growth of the open praries taken 15th of Septr. 1804
—Meriwether Lewis[3]Astragalus canadensis, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 24.
Spiny Goldenweed Specimen
Prairies, Septb: 15, 1804.
—Meriwether Lewis[4]Machaeranthera pinnatifida, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 106.
Stop Lewis!
September 15, 1804
To His Most Excellent Señor, Pedro Cevallos
. . . . .
It is impossible for me to procure any news as to the course of the [Lewis and Clark] voyage since I have no plans of the upper part of that river, since we only calculate its proximity to the New Kingdom of Mexico from the news of travelers, from the voyages recently made, from what the Indians tell us . . . .
I find extraordinary . . . that the Commandante-General has not taken more active measures . . . to stop the progress of Merry [Meriwether Lewis].
[unsigned][5]Marqués de Casa Calvo to Pedro Cevallo in Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), … Continue reading
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 | Artemisia dracunculus, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 18. |
| ↑3 | Astragalus canadensis, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 24. |
| ↑4 | Machaeranthera pinnatifida, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 106. |
| ↑5 | Marqués de Casa Calvo to Pedro Cevallo in Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 210–212. |
