While in St. Louis, the captains attend to “Sundery Stores &c.” An undated letter between the two—written about this time—indicates the types of things that may need their attention.
Sounding Horn
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Attending to Stores
Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11, attending to Sunderey Stores &c
—William Clark
Articles in Need
[April 1804]
Memorandom of Artecles which may be wanting
not to be had Some red lead & oil Paints for the lockers on Deck &c. 200 sent ” Nails 6d or 8d to put on Hinges sent ” red & blue Ribben (wide) sent 2 Trumpits to be mended.[1]Clark to Lewis. Written in Clark’s hand with Lewis’s responses set here in italics. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd … Continue reading
Weather Diary
Thermometr. at rise
Weather Wind at Sunrise Thermometr. at 4 oClock Weather Wind at 4 oClock River 26 above 0 fair after clouds N E cloudy fall 2 in. windey
—William Clark[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.
Winter Camp at Wood River (Camp Dubois) is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site, near Hartford, Illinois, is managed as Lewis and Clark State Historic Site and is open to the public.
In present St. Louis, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial “commemorates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the continental expansion of the United States” and is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service.
Notes
| ↑1 | Clark to Lewis. Written in Clark’s hand with Lewis’s responses set here in italics. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 175. |
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| ↑2 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
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- 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.
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