Above Chamberlain, SD The boats struggle to make seven miles up the Missouri. Specimens are made from a coyote and two plants.
Coyote
Canis latrans
Photo by R. H. Barrett of the U.S. Forest Service.
Coyote Specimen
George Drewyer killed a prarie woolf [coyote] Some larger than a fox. long teeth & of a different discription from any in the States &.C. . . . the Bones of the woolf was taken apart and Saved as well as the Skins of them boath in order to Send back to the States next Spring, with the other curiousities we have or may have &.C.—
—John Ordway
A Sign of Fall
this day saw the first brant on their return from the north—
—Meriwether Lewis
Jerking Meat
The hunters who had went out early this Morning return’d to us; having killed 11 deer, and one Wolf, which was brought to us. We encamped in the afternoon on the South side of the River, in order to Jerk the meat which had been kill’d these two days,
—Joseph Whitehouse
Tall Blazing Star
Liatris pycnostachya
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Missouri Milkvetch Specimen
No. 36 18th of Septr. the growth of the high Prarie—
—Meriwether Lewis[1]Astragalus missouriensis, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 25.
Tall Blazing Star Specimen
35. Sept. 18 The Growth of the Prairies
—Meriwether Lewis[2]Liatris pycnostachya Michx., Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 91.
