George Drouillard and Pierre Cruzatte are sent to find the Otoes and invite them to council at White Catfish Camp near present Bellevue, Nebraska. A flag is hoisted as a signal. Everyone is otherwise engaged with various tasks.
Searching for the Otoes
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15 Stars and Stripes
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Diplomatic Mission
at 11 oClock Sent off George Drewyer & Peter Crousett [Pierre Cruzatte] with Some tobacco to invite the Otteaus [Otoes] if at their town and Panies [Pawnees] if they Saw them to Come and talk with us at our Camp &c. &c.
—William Clark
Hoisting the Colors
we hoisted the american Collours on the Bank
—John Ordway
Map Making
I commence Coppying a map of the river below to Send to the P. U S [President Thomas Jefferson]
—William Clark
Busy Day Off
Our people were all busily engaged in hunting, making oars, dressing skins, and airing our stores, provisions, and baggage.
—Patrick Gass
Weather Diary
Cat fish is verry Common and easy taken in any part of this river. Some are nearly white perticilary above the Platte River.
—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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