Day-by-Day / March 23, 1804

March 23, 1804

Kickapoo update

At winter camp across the Mississippi above St. Louis, the man sent up the river to check the status of a Kickapoo war party returns with a letter from François Saucier, the commander of Portage des Sioux.

Kickapoo Update

the man returned, with a Lette[r] from Mr. [François Saucier] the Comdr. of Passage Desous [Portage des Sioux], informing me that the Kickapoos has gone home
William Clark

 

Weather Diary

Therm at sun symbol rise weather wind Therm at 4 Oclk weather wind River
22 above 0 fair N E 52 above 0 fair N E rise 4 in.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark[3]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.

Notes

Notes
1 New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 11, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-da81-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
2 Louis Houck, A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1908), 2:88–89.
3 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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