The dugouts are emptied of heavier items and then towed up Pine Tree Rapids. The expedition continues eleven miles through a canyon with dark rock cliffs, currants and serviceberries and encamps near the Dearborn River in present Montana.
Mountain Palace, Missouri River
© 22 August 2018 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Through Solid Rock
we saw some mountain rams or bighorned anamals [Bighorn Sheep] this evening, and no other game whatever and indeed there is but little appearance of any. in some places both banks of the river are formed for a short distance of nearly perpendicular rocks of a dark black grannite of great hight; the river has the appearance of having cut it’s passage in the course of time through this solid rock.
—Meriwether Lewis
Common Sunflower
Helianthus annuus
Giant Springs State Park, Great Falls, Montana, 21 August 2018. © by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Sunflowers
The sunflower is in bloom and abundant in the river bottoms. The Indians of the Missouri particularly those who do not cultivate maze make great uce of the seed of this plant for bread, or use it in thickening their soope.
Meriwether Lewis
Currants
there are a great abundance of red yellow perple & black currants, and service berries now ripe and in great perfection. I find these fruits very pleasent particularly the yellow currant
—Meriwether Lewis
Lining up Pine Tree Rapids
we left Some articles and doubled maned the canoes and them all over Safe which was about half a mile long, & roled white over the rocks, but by the assistance of the towing lines we got up all the canoes without Injury Sent back for the other articles.
—John Ordway
Celestial Observations
Observed time and distance of
‘s and
‘s nearest limbs with Sextant,
—Meriwether Lewis
Weather Diary
State of the thermometer at Weather at Wind at State of the Thermometer at 4 P.M. Weather at 4 P.M. Wind at 4 P.M. State of the river 58 [above 0] fair S. W. 81 [above 0] fair S. W fallen 1 ½ in. —Meriwether Lewis[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “State of the river” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.
Tower Rock is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site a Montana State Park.
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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