While waiting at Weippe Prairie for mountain snow to melt, the hunters imitate bleating fawns to call in the does. Three Nez Perce guides arrive, and all is made ready to cross the Bitterroot Mountains. Clark hears news of peace between the Walla Wallas and Shoshones and war from the Atsinas against the Shoshones and Salish.
A Contingency Plan
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
Horses near Weippe
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Rounding up Horses
we directed the horses to be brought near camp this evening and secured in such manner that they may be readily obtained in the morning being determined to make an early start if possible.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Calling the Deer
the does now having their fawns the hunters can bleat them up and in that manner kill them with more facility and ease.
—Meriwether Lewis
Three Nez Perce Guides
Drewyer Shannon and Whitehouse returned. Drewyer brought with him three [Nez Perce] indians who had consented to accompany us to the falls of the Missouri for the compensation of two guns. one of those men is the brother of the cutnose and the other two are the same who presented Capt. Clark and myself each with a horse on a former occasion at the Lodge of the broken arm. these are all young men of good character and much respected by their nation.
—Meriwether Lewis
Sgt. Gass’s Pursuit
I immediately started with three of the men after the Indians, leaving one to take care of the camp, and the lame horse and some more that were there. We proceeded on till we came to the creek where we had stayed the 19th and 20th, and overtook the Indians encamped there, and encamped with them.
—Patrick Gass
War and Peace
those men infor us that thir nation as well as the Wallar-wallars [Walla Wallas] have made peace with the Shoshones agreeable to our late advice to them. they also inform us that they have heard by means of the Skeetsomis Nation [Coeur d’Alene] & Clarks river that the Big bellies of Fort de Prarie [Atsinas] Killed great numbers of the Shoshons and Otte lee Shoots [Salish]
—William Clark
Weather Diary
State of the weather at rise
Wind at State of the weather at 4 P.M. Wind at 4 P.M. fair N W fair N W hard frost this morning ice one eighth of an inch thick on standing water
—Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is not presented and some abbreviations have been spelled out.
Weippe Prairie is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. A 274-acre tract in the prairie is managed by the Nez Perce National Historic Park.
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 | To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is not presented and some abbreviations have been spelled out. |
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