With all hands aboard, they start the day as one corps for the first time since separating on 3 July 1806. With favorable winds, they make eighty-six miles and pass the Little Missouri River. Camp is near present Riverdale, North Dakota.
All Hands Aboard
Painting created by Split Rock Studios, Sioux City, Iowa. Original in the collection of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation and photographed by Kristopher K. Townsend.
All Hands Aboard
all hands were on board and we Set out at Sunrize and proceeded on very well with a Stiff breeze astern the greater part of the day.
—William Clark
Hidatsa Hunters
Some indians were Seen in a Skin Canoe [bull boat] below, they were decending from an old Camp of theirs on the S. W. Side, those I suppose to be Some of the Minetaras [Hidatsas] who had been up on a hunting expedition, one Canoe was left at their Camp.
—William Clark
Eighty-six Miles
passed the enterance of the Little Missouri river at 8 A. M. and arived at the Enterance of Myry river [Snake Creek] at Sun Set and encamped on the N E Side haveing came by the assistance of the wind, the Current and our oars 86 miles.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
State of the weather at Sun rise State of wind at Sunrise State of the weather at 4 P. M. Wind at 4 P. M. State of river fair after rain S W fair S. W. fall 2 ½ in. a fiew drops of rain last night at 8 P. M with hard S W wind
—William Clark[1]To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is omitted, some abbreviations have been spelled out, and the three river columns have been merged.
Notes
| ↑1 | To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is omitted, some abbreviations have been spelled out, and the three river columns have been merged. |
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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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