At Long Camp, the Captains’ mess eats yampah and onions gathered by Sacagawea to help dispel the wind caused from digesting camas and cous roots. The flooding Collins Creek [present Lolo Creek, Idaho] limits the hunters‘ range, and John Shields brings Lewis a woodpecker new to science.
Grizzly Bears, Again
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Gairdner’s Yampah (Fennel Root)
Perideridia gairdneri
Provided by the U.S. National Park Service.
Gairdner’s Yampah
Sahcargarmeah [Sacagawea] geathered a quantity of the roots of a speceis of fennel which we found very agreeable food, the flavor of this root is not unlike annis seed, and they dispell the wind which the roots called Cows [cous root] and quawmash [camas] are apt to create particularly the latter.
—Meriwether Lewis
Geyer’s Onions
we also boil a small onion which we find in great abundance, with other roots and find them also an antidote to the effects of the others. the mush of roots we find adds much to the comfort of our diet.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Lolo (Collins) Creek Crossing in Flood
© 3 May 2009 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Flooding Lolo (Collins) Creek
they informed us that game was wild and scarce, that a large creek (Collins‘ Creek) ran parallel with the river at the distance of about 5 or 6 miles which they found impracticable to pass with their horses in consequence of the debth and rapidity of it’s current. beyond this creek the Indians inform us that there is great abundance of game.
—Meriwether Lewis
Lewis’s Woodpecker
Shields rode out and hunted in the morning without Suckcess he returned at 11 A. M. having killed only a black wood pecker with a red breast as discribed hereafter.
—Meriwether Lewis
Weather Diary
State of the Weather at rise
Wind at State of the Weather at 4 P.M. Wind at 4 P.M. State of the Kooskooskee cloudy S E cloudy after rain S E raised 6 in. last night was uncommonly warm river rising fast. say 9 Inches
—Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is not presented, the river columns have been merged, and some abbreviations have been spelled out.
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 | To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is not presented, the river columns have been merged, and some abbreviations have been spelled out. |
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