As the boats move seventeen more miles up the Missouri, they stop to repair the white pirogue‘s rudder. Lewis describes snow geese and wolves, and Clark tells of difficulty with a “turrible looking” grizzly bear. Camp is near present Wolf Point, Montana.
Wolves and Coyotes
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
Hunting of the Grizzly Bear (cropped)
Karl Bodmer (1809–1893)
Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. “Jagd auf Grizzly Bären. Chasse au Grizzly bear. Hunting of the Grizzly bear.”[2]New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed 18 March 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-c45c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
Tough Grizzly Bear
I went out with one man Geo. Drewyer & Killed the bear, which was verry large and a turrible looking animal, which we found verry hard to kill we Shot ten Balls into him before we killed him, & 5 of those Balls through his lights
—William Clark
Repairing the White Pirogue
soon after seting out the rudder irons of the white perogue were broken by her runing fowl on a sawyer, she was however refitted in a few minutes with some tugs of raw hide and nales.
—Meriwether Lewis
Fine Veal, Fat Beef
Buffaloe Elk and goats or Antelopes [pronghorns] feeding in every direction; we kill whatever we wish, the buffaloe furnish us with fine veal and fat beef, we also have venison and beaver tales when we wish them
—Meriwether Lewis
Snow Goose
Chen caerulescens
Photo by unknown photographer. Permission via the GNU Free Documentation License.
Snow Geese
saw a great number of white brant also the common brown brant, geese of the common kind and a small species of geese which differ considerably from the common canadian goose;
—Meriwether Lewis
Wolves, Faithful Servants
The large woolf found here is not as large as those of the atlantic states . . . . we scarcely see a gang of buffaloe without observing a parsel of those faithfull shepherds on their skirts in readiness to take care of the mamed & wounded.
—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 38 [above 0] fair N W 62 [above 0] fair after rain S. E. raised 1 in. a few drops of rain only
—Meriwether Lewis[3]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “State of the river” columns, 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 | New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed 18 March 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-c45c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. |
| ↑3 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “State of the river” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
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