By the time the scattered horses are found, snow is falling and the day is half over. Moving west along the Northern Nez Perce Trail, the pack train climbs high knobs and passes a “Sinque hole” before camping. With nothing but a few grouse on hand, they kill another colt for supper.
Struggling over the Nez Perce Trail
24″ x 16″ oil on canvas
© 2009 by Charles Fritz. Used by permission.
Searching for Horses
our horses much Scattered which detained us untill one oClock P. M. at which time we Set out the falling Snow & Snow from the trees which kept us wet all the after noon
—William Clark
High Knobs
We ascended some very high mountains, & very rockey paths & many bare places on the Mountains & high Rocks Standing upright on them.
—Joseph Whitehouse
Melting Snow
the afternoon clear and pleasant & warm. the Snow melted fast. the water Stood in the trail over our mockns
—John Ordway
Evening Encampment
Camped at a Small branch on the mountain near a round deep Sinque hole full of water
—Joseph Whitehousewe Encamped on the top of a high Knob of the mountain at a run passing to the left.
—William Clark
High Knob at Indian Grave Meadow
© 25 October 2009 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Insufficient Supper
Killed a fiew Pheasents which was not Sufficient for our Supper which compelled us to kill Something. a coalt being the most useless part of our Stock he fell a Prey to our appetites.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Weather at rise
Wind at Weather at 4 P.M. Wind at 4 P.M. fair S W fair S W. Killed & eate the 2d Coalt
—Meriwether Lewis[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column and spelled out some abbreviations.
Notes
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