Pvts. Werner and Howard—both inexperienced woodsmen—may have lost their way traveling from the beach at present Seaside, Oregon to Fort Clatsop. Pvt. Collins is sent to the salt makers’ camp, and Lewis describes the evergreen huckleberry.
Werner and Howard Lost
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
Thick Woods between the Salt Works and Fort Clatsop
Fort-to-Sea Trail
© 1 April 2009 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Missing Salt Makers
Werner and Howard who were sent for salt on the 23rd have not yet returned, we are apprehensive that they have missed their way; neither of them are very good woodsmen, and this thick heavy timbered pine country added to the constant cloudy weather makes it difficult for even a good woodsman to steer for any considerable distance the course he wishes.
—Meriwether Lewis
Collins Takes Merchandise
we ordered Collins to return early in the morning and rejoin the salt makers, and gave him some small articles of merchandize to purchase provisions from the [Clatsop] Indians, in the event of their still being unfortunate in the chase.
—Meriwether Lewis
Evergreen Huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum
Courtesy Gordon Leppig & Andrea J. Pickart, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Evergreen Huckleberry
The Shallun* or deep purple berry is in form much like the huckleberry . . . . the natives either eat these berrys when ripe immediately from the bushes or dryed in the sun or by means of their sw[e]ating kilns; very frequently they pound them and bake then in large loaves of 10 of fifteen pounds; this bread keeps very well during one season
—Meriwether Lewis
Weather Diary
aspect of the weather at rise
Wind at Weather at 4 OC. P.M. Wind at 4 OC. P.M. cloudy after hail & snow N. E cloudy after snow N E at 4 P. M. last evening the snow was one Inch deep
—Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of the month” column and spelled out some abbreviations.
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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, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of the month” column and spelled out some abbreviations. |
