Too Windy for Canoes
by Yellowstone Public Radio[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
Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
Lewis and Clark Pass, Montana, 1 July 2015. © by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Creeping Juniper Specimen
Observed considerable quantities of dwarf Juniper on the hill sides (see specimen No. 4)
—Meriwether Lewis[2]This is one of the specimens ruined in a cache above the Great Falls. Other specimens of this plant were sent back on the barge (called the ‘boat’ or ‘barge’ but never the … Continue reading
Strong Winds
The wind blew So hard this morning from N. W. that we dared not to venture our canoes on the river.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Blooming Plums
the Praries appear to green, the cotton trees bigin to leave, Saw some plumb bushes in full bloom, those were the plumb bushes which I have Seen for Some time.
—William Clark
Missouri River Beaver
The beaver of this part of the Missouri are larger, fatter, more abundant and better clad with fur than those of any other part of the country that I have yet seen; I have remarked also that their fur is much darker.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Weather Diary
State of Thermometer at rise
Weather Wind at State of Thermometer at 4 P.M. Weather Wind at 4 P.M. State of the River 45 [above 0] cloudy N. W. 56 [above 0] cloudy N. W. wind violent. The trees have now put forth their leaves. the goosbury, current, servisbury, and wild plumbs are in blume.
—William Clark and Meriwether Lewis[3]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, clarified the “State of the River” information, and spelled out some abbreviations.
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 | This is one of the specimens ruined in a cache above the Great Falls. Other specimens of this plant were sent back on the barge (called the ‘boat’ or ‘barge’ but never the ‘keelboat’). See Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 84. |
| ↑3 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, clarified the “State of the River” information, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
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