Otoe Gifts and Formalities
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
Study of the White Pirogue
10″ x 6″ oil on board
© 2009 by Charles Fritz. Used by permission.
Setting Up Camp
deturmined to Stay here 4 or 5 days to take & make obsvts. & refresh our men also to Send Despatches back to govement— . . . and Send for Some of the Chiefs of that [Otoe] nation to let them Know of the Change of Government, The wishes of our Government to Cultivate friendship with them, the Objects of our journey
—William Clark
Scientific Instruments
A summary discription of the apparatus employed in the following observations; containing also some remarks on the manner in which they have been employed, and the method observed in recording the observations made with them.—
—Meriwether Lewis
White Catfish Camp is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. Across from White Catfish Camp, on the Nebraska side, the Fontenelle Forest provides trails and Lewis and Clark interpretation.
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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- 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.
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