Lewis fails to secure Nez Perce guides to accompany him to the Falls of the Missouri. Clark seeks Nez Perce guides to accompany him to the Yellowstone River and to parley with the Shoshones.
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June 2, 1806
At Long Camp in present-day Kamiah, Idaho, a horse corral is made, and Lewis’s horse must be shot. Ordway brings in seventeen tainted salmon, and Drouillard returns with Sergeant Floyd‘s old tomahawk.
May 27, 1806
Lewis begins a twelve-day treatise on natural history—today, the Columbian ground squirrel and Lewis’s woodpecker, both new to science. John Ordway and two others leave for the Snake River to buy salmon.
May 26, 1806
Having run out of meat at Long Camp, Lewis has the brothers Joseph and Reubin Field hunt for a horse. They find a Nez Perce village on the South Fork of the Clearwater with whom they have not yet traded.
May 14, 1806
The expedition moves to a former Nez Perce habitation across the Clearwater River from present Kamiah, Idaho. With the help the Nez Perce, baggage, horses, and people are ferried across the river.
May 13, 1806
The expedition moves a few miles to the Clearwater River in present Kamiah, Idaho. Lewis describes in detail the appearance, dress, ornamentation, and hairstyles of the Nez Perce.
May 12, 1806
At Lawyer Creek near Kamiah, Idaho, Nez Perce chiefs share with their people what they heard at yesterday’s council with the captains. The captains then give a gun and ammunition to Twisted Hair.
Discover More
- 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.
- The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
- The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.
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