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
George Catlin (1796-1872)
Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library.[1]New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 11, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-da81-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
All three of these Kickapoos posed for the artist in an attitude of prayer. Two are holding prayer sticks.
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 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.
Winter Camp at Wood River (Camp Dubois) is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site, near Hartford, Illinois, is managed as Lewis and Clark State Historic Site and is open to the public.
Notes
↑1 | New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 11, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-da81-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. |
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↑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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