A Recipe for Bear
by Yellowstone Public Radio[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
Juvenile Bald Eagle with Salmon
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
© 1998 Mila Zinkova. Permission via the GNU Free Documentation License.
Signs of Salmon
LaPage [Lepage] took a Salmon from an Eagle at a Short distance below our Camp. this is induces us to believe that the Salmon is in this river and most probably will be here in great numbers in the Course of a fiew days.
—William Clark
Another Grizzly
Potts and Whitehouse accompanied Collins to the bear which he had killed on the 16th and brought in the flesh and Skin.
—Meriwether Lewis
Gathering Yampah
our indian woman [Sacagawea] was busily engaged today in laying in a store of the fennel roots [Gairdner’s yampah] for the Rocky mountains. these are called by the Shoshones year-pah.
—Meriwether Lewis
Nez Perce Hunters
3 Indians who had been hunting towards the place at which we met with Chopunnish [Nez Perce] last fall, called by them the quawmash grounds, called at our camp; they informed us that they had been hunting several days and had killed nothing; we gave them a small peice of meat which they told us they would reserve for their small children who were very hungary;
—Meriwether Lewis
Medical Aid
an old man and a woman arived the man with Sore eyes, and the woman with a gripeing and rhumatic effections. I gave the woman a dose of creme of tarter and flour of Sulphur, and the man Some eye water.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
State of the Weather at rise
Wind at State of the Weather at 4 P.M. Wind at 4 P.M. State of the Kooskooskee cloudy after rain S E cloudy S E raised 2 in. —Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is not presented, the river columns have been merged, and some abbreviations have been spelled out.
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 | To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is not presented, the river columns have been merged, and some abbreviations have been spelled out. |
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