After making 13¾ miles up the Missouri, the boats stop early at what they name No Preserve Island. There, they make a new cedar mast for the barge. Lewis describes the bull snake and adds wild prairie rose and bur oak to his plant collection.
No Preserve Island
Missouri River near Lynch, Nebraska
Courtesy U.S. National Park Service, Missouri National Recreational River.
Sent out Some hunters on the Island (which I call no preserve Island, at this place we used the last of our Preservs) They killed 3 bucks, & two Elk which we jurked—
—William Clark
Searching for Ponca Indians
Sent Shields & Gibson to the Poncas Towns, which is Situated on the Ponca river on the lower side about two miles from its mouth in an open butifull Plain, at this time this nation is out hunting the biffalow
—William Clark
New Mast
About 4 we encamped on an island, where we made and put in a new mast.
—Patrick Gass
Wild prairie rose
Rosa arkansana
Photo © 2007 Alex W. Covington. Permission via the GNU Free Documentation License.
Wild Prairie Rose Specimen
Rosa Open prairies Septb: 5, 1804
—Meriwether Lewis[1]Rosa arkansana, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 153.
Bur (Burr) Oak Specimen
No.34 The leaf of oak which is common to the praries 5th September 1804.
—Meriwether Lewis[2]Quercus macrocarpa, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 147.
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