At Camp River Dubois across the Mississippi from St. Louis, four men search for a lost horse. Fifty kegs of salted pork is secured and some corn meal is packed away. In the Weather Diary, Clark reports on the spring growth in the American Bottom.
Camp River Dubois Provisions
Photo provided by Lewis & Clark State Historic Site, Hartford, Illinois. Used by permission. (Altered: the display background has been replaced with log walls.)
Lost Horse
Reed came from St. Louis at 45 m after 10 oClock with Letters for me from Col. Anderson I sent out 4 men to hunt a horse to Send to Cap. Lewis, out all day without finding him
—William Clark
Packing Pork
Completed packing fifty Kegs of Pork, & roled & filled them with brine, also packed one Bar: Meal, & one bu Parched [corn] of an inferior quality.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Thermometr. at rise
Weather Wind at Sunrise Thermometr. at 4 oClock Weather Wind at 4 oClock River 34 above 0 fair after clouds N W fair fall 5 in. wind verry high every day Since the 3rd instant Some frost to day Peach trees in full Bloome, the Weaping Willow has put forth its leaves and are 1/5 of their Sise, the Violet the doves foot, & cowslip are in bloe, the dogs tooth violet is not yet in blume. The trees of the forest particularly the Cotton wood begin to obtain from their Size of their buds a Greenish Cast at a distance— the Gooseberry which is also in this country and lilak have put forth their leaves— frost
—William Clark[1]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
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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.
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