Winter Camp at Wood River, IL According to the Weather Diary, Clark and Lewis are on a trip to St. Charles in an attempt to prevent a large war party of Kickapoos from attacking the Osages.
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Intercepting a War Party
The weather has been generally fair but verry Cold, the ice run for Several days in Such quantities that it was impossible to pass the River [Mississippi] Visited St. Charles Saw the 1st Snake which was the kind usially termed the Garter Snake, Saw also a Beatle of black Colour with two red Stripes on his back passing each other Crosswise, from the but of the wing towards the extremity of the Same.
—Weather Diary
Therm at rise
weather wind Therm at 4 Oclk weather wind River 10 above 0 fair E 60 above 0 fair SSW fall 2 ½ —Meriwether Lewis and 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.
Today, the St. Charles Historic District is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service.
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| ↑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. |
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