At Clearwater Canoe Camp near present Orofino, Idaho, two new canoes are put in the water. The horses are rounded up, branded, and given to Nez Perce caretakers, and Tetoharsky and Twisted Hair volunteer to guide them down the river. Their diet of roots has them so full of wind that they are “Scercely able to Breathe all night”.
Branding Horses
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Two Dugout Canoes
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Branding Horses
got up all our horses 38 in number. we branded them on the near fore Shoulder with a Stirrup Iron, and cropped their fore mane So as we may know them at our return.
—John Ordway
Two Nez Perce Guides
the old chief [Twisted Hair] who we leave the care of our horses with has engaged to go on with us past his nation and leave the horses in the care of his two sons our officers gave them Some Small presents &C. another Chief [Tetoharsky] engaged to go with us also.
—John Ordway
Full of Wind
nothing to eate but dried roots & Dried fish, Capt Lewis & my Self eate a Supper of roots boiled, which filled us So full of wind, that we were Scercely able to Breathe all night felt the effects of it.
—William Clark
Launching Two Canoes
Lanced [Launched] 2 Canoes to day one proved a little leakey the other a verry good one
William Clark
Determining Latitude
Latitude of this place from the mean of two observations is 46° 34′ 56.3″ North—
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Day of the month Wind State of the Weather 5th E fair Note from the 1st to 7th of October we were at the mouth of Chopunnuish river makeing Canoes to Decend the Kooskooske [Clearwater].
—William Clark[2]Some abbreviations have been spelled out.
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 | Some abbreviations have been spelled out. |
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