Day-by-Day / July 5, 1804

July 5, 1804

Seaman chases beavers

Heading up the Missouri, the current turns the boats around three times, and Lewis’s dog, Seaman, drives some beavers from their house. They pass an old fort and Missouria Indian village and encamp near present Bluffwoods Conservation Area in Missouri.

Seaman Chases some Beaver

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

Old Missouria Village

The Origan of this old village is uncertain M. de Bourgmont a French officer who Comdd. a fort near the Town of the Missouris in about the year 1724 and in July of the Same year he visited this Village . . . . Those people must have been verry noumerous at that time as Mr. De B: was accompanied by 300 Warriers, 500 young people & 300 Dogs of burthen out of this Village
William Clark

Du Pratz’s Description

Mr. Du Pratz must have been badly informed as to the Cane opposd this place we have not Seen one Stalk of reed or cane on the Missouries, he States that the “Indians that accompanied M De Bourgmont Crossed to the Canzes Village on floats of Cane”
—William Clark

Seaman Chases Beavers

we came to for Dinner at a Beever house, Cap Lewis’s Dog Seamon [Seaman] went in & drove them out.
—William Clark

River Obstructions

the Boat turned three times once on the [Plat?] of a Drift wood. She recved no proceiviable damage
—William Clark

 

Notes

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.

Discover More

  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.