At Station Camp on present Baker Bay, a storm blows in with high waves and tides. Some must move their shelters and fires, a dugout canoe is damaged, and Clark calls it a horrible day. Armbands and rings are used to buy wapato roots.
A Stormy, Miserable Day
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
Stormy Day at Station Camp
© circa 1994 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
A Horrible Day
O! how horriable is the day waves brakeing with great violence against the Shore throwing the Water into our Camp &c. all wet and Confind to our Shelters
—William Clark
Damaged Canoe
the waves rolled So high and the tide raised much higher than common dashed one of our canoes against the logs and was near Splitting it before we got it out. dammaged it and obledged us to move Some of our Camps.—
—John Ordway
Armbands and Rings
we purchased a fiew wappato roots for which we gave armbans, & rings to the old Squar, those roots are equal to the Irish potato, and is a tolerable Substitute for bread
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Day of the month Wind State of the Weather 22nd S S E rain rained all day . . . The wind violent from the S. S. E. throwing the water of the R over our Camp and rain continued all day.
—Meriwether Lewis and William Clark[2]Some abbreviations have been spelled out.
Middle Village-Station Camp is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site provides interpretation and is part of the Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks.
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 | Some abbreviations have been spelled out. |
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