Winter Camp at Wood River, IL As per Lewis’s detachment orders, four men are to make sugar from maple trees in the surrounding woods.
Sugaring at Camp Dubois
Diane Haker
Sapphire Mountain Graphics. Used by permission.
Members of Camp Dubois’s sugar-making team labor over their kettles of boiling sap. Fifty-six gallons yielded 10 pounds of sugar.
Making Sugar
Detachment Orders
Camp River Dubois, Febr. 20th 1804. . . .
The four men who are engaged in making sugar will continue in that employment untill further orders, and will recieve each a half a gill of extra whiskey pr. day and be exempt from guard duty.—
. . . .
Meriwether Lewis Capt.
1st U. S. Regt. Infty.
Weather Diary
Therm at rise
weather wind Therm at 4 Oclk weather wind River 16 above 0 fair N E 30 above 0 fair N E fall ½ in. —William Clark[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “day of month 1804” 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 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “day of month 1804” column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
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