Winter Camp at Wood River, IL The day is snowy and the journalists record little else. The captains are likely both in St. Louis working on the Upper Louisiana transfer and Osage Indian delegation.
Atlatl Collection
From a display at the Great Falls Lewis & Clark Visitor Center managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Photo © 2015 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
An atlatl is also called spear thrower, propulsuer, woomera, and throwing stick.
Questions for the Louisiana Indians
Inquiries relitive to the Indians of Louisiania.
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Any information of the Indians of Louisiania so far as you may be inabled, at your Leasure dureing this winter either from Materials which may be in your possession, or such as you may have it in your power to acquire would be most sinceerly acknowledged by me; the Interest you feel for the extention of General Science would I have no doubt more than any other consideration form your inducement to comply with this request and [end of manuscript]
—William Clark[1]Undated and unsigned list written in Clark’s hand. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, … Continue reading
Weather Diary
Therm at rise
weather wind Therm at 4 Oclk weather wind River 4 above 0 clouds & snow N W 6 above 0 cloudy after snow N W fall 2 in. began to Snow and Continued all day
—William Clark and Meriwether Lewis[2]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 | Undated and unsigned list written in Clark’s hand. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 157. |
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| ↑2 | 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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