The expedition leaves Eldorado Creek and follows the Northern Nez Perce Trail over a small divide to Hungery Creek. The captains, fearing the Nez Perce guides have left them, are relieved when they finally catch up. Sacagawea gathers roots resembling the Jerusalem artichoke, and Lewis prepares specimens of Angelica (Angelica arguta) and California False Hellebore (Veratrum californicum).
Hungery and Obia Creek Confluence
© 11 September 2010 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Locating the corps’ campsite on this day is difficult, but a likely candidate is the small flat to the left and just out of frame in the above photograph. Obia Creek, obscured by brush and trees, enters from the left between the largest boulders on the left..
Jerusalem Artichoke Camp
after dinner we continued our rout to hungary Creek and encamped about one and a half miles below our encampment of the 16th inst.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Western Spring Beauty
the squaw [Sacagawea] Collected a parcel of roots of which the Shoshones Eat. it is a Small knob root a good deel in flavour and Consistency like the Jerusolem artichoke.
—William Clark
Nez Perce Guides Remain
the [Nez Perce] indians continued with us and I beleive are disposed to be faithfull to their engagement. I gave the sik indian a buffaloe robe he having no other covering except his mockersons and a dressed Elkskin without the hair.
—Meriwether Lewis
Angelica
Angelica arguta
Lewis and Clark Pass, 2 July 2011. © by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Angelica Specimen
Angelica within the Rocky mountains in moist places Jun: 25th 1806? The flowering one taken in Septb 3d 1805.
—Meriwether Lewis[1]Angelica arguta. Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 13.
California False Hellebore
Veratrum californicum
Salmon Trout Camp on Eldorado Creek, 22 June 2008. © by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
California False Hellebore Specimen
A plant growing in wet places with a Single Stem, & leaves clasping around one another; no flowers observed. On the Kooskooskee [Clearwater River] Jun: 25th 1806
—Meriwether Lewis[2]Veratrum californicum. Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 174.
Weather Diary
State of the weather at rise
Wind at State of the weather at 4 P.M. Wind at 4 P.M. cloudy after rain S E cloudy after rain N W rained a little last night, some showers in the evening—
—Meriwether Lewis[3]To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is omitted and some abbreviations have been spelled out.
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