With a tailwind most of the day, the boats make twenty-four miles up the Missouri. They see great quantities of wild game and bright, colored layers in the hills of the Fort Union Formation. Camp is below present Culbertson, Montana.
Winds Finally Favorable
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
Plenty of Game
From an interpretive sign at Culbertson Bridge. Photo by Kristopher K. Townsend.
Favorable Winds
Set out this morning at an early hour; the wind was favourable and we employed our sails to advantage. Capt Clark walked on shore this morning, and I proceeded with the party.
—Meriwether Lewis
Great Quantities of Game
we saw great quantities of game today; consisting of the common and mule deer, Elk, Buffaloe [buffalo], and Antelopes [pronghorns]; also four brown bear [grizzly bear], one of which was fired on and wounded by one of the party but we did not get it
—Meriwether Lewis
Missouri River at Culbertson Bridge
© 26 July 2013 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Strata
the Bluffs in this part as also below Shew different Straturs of Coal or carbonated wood, and Coloured earth, such as dark brown, yellow a lightish brown, & a dark red &c.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
State of Thermometer at rise
Weather Wind at State of Thermometer at 4 P.M. Weather Wind at 4 P.M. State of the River 44 [above 0] fair S. E. 63 [above 0] fair S E fallen 1 ½ in. Vegetation has progressed but little since the 18th in short the change is scarcely perceptible.
—William Clark and Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, clarified the “State of the River” information, and spelled out some abbreviations.
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 date column, clarified the “State of the River” information, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
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