While walking on the shore with Clark and Charbonneau, Sacagawea collects a currant bush specimen. Because they already have so much meat, Sgt. Ordway chooses to let a bison swimming the river pass. After paddling 24 miles up the Missouri, they camp 5 miles southwest of present Brockton, Montana.
Missouri River Prairie at Brockton
© 26 July 2013 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Too much Meat
clear and pleasant. we Set off eairly. proceeded on Saw large gangs of buffaloe Swimming the River just before our cannoes & we would not Shoot them as we had meat enofe on board.
—John Ordway
Buffalo Currant
Ribes sp.
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Buffalo Currant
in my walk the Squar [Sacagawea] found & brought me a bush Something like the Current, which She Said bore a delicious froot and that great quantites grew on the Rocky Mountains, this Srub was in bloom has a yellow flower with a deep Cup, the froot when ripe is yellow and hangs in bunches like Cheries, Some of those berries yet remained on the bushes.
—William Clark
Large Elk
I walked on shore this evening and killed a buck Elk, in tolerable order; it appeared to me to be the largest I had seen, and was therefore induced to measure it; found it five feet three inches from the point of the hoof, to the top of the sholders
—Meriwether Lewis
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 50 [above 0] fair N. W. 58 [above 0] fair S E fallen ½ in. —William Clark and Meriwether Lewis[1]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 | 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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