West of Pickstown, SD Winds are favorable and the boats make seventeen miles passing Jean Baptiste Truteau’s old trading house. They are now entirely within present-day South Dakota, and George Shannon is still missing.
Great Quantity of Game Killed[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
Missouri River below Pickstown
Courtesy U.S. National Park Service, Missouri National Recreational River.
Truteau’s Trading House
passed the house of Troodo where he wintered in 96. Called the Pania [Ponca] house
—William ClarkOn the Lard. shore 3½ miles below Mr. Trudeau’s House, Observed
‘s Magnetic azimuth with Circumfertr
—Meriwether Lewis
Wolves Take Hat
I went out with one of our men, who had killed a buffaloe and left his hat to keep off the vermin and beasts of prey; but when we came to the place, we found the wolves had devoured the carcase and carried off the hat.
—Patrick Gass
Wild Rice Specimen
No. 59. 8th Sept. the growth of moist and very wet prairies
—Meriwether Lewis[2]Zizania palustris, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 177.
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 | Zizania palustris, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 177. |
