The enlisted men continue to raise cabins at the Wood River winter camp, and two hunters bring in several turkeys. In a letter dated 28 December, Lewis describes the nature of his work in Spanish controlled St. Louis.
Turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
Photograph by Dimus who has released it to the public domain.
Seven Fat Turkeys
the waggoner charged me three Dollars for his Services yesterday, Send out Shields & Floyd to hunt to day, they Kill 7 Turkeys verry fat, I commence puting up the Logs for my huts to day—
—William Clark
Spanish Permission
Cahokia December 28th 1803.
Dear Sir,
I asked Colo. Lassuse . . . if he would be so good as to permit the Merchants of St. Louis to give me such information as they might be disposed to give relative to the geography of the country, the request was immediately granted.
MERIWETHER LEWIS. CAPT.
1st. U.S. Regt. Infty.[1]Lewis to Jefferson. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 150–151.
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.
Notes
| ↑1 | Lewis to Jefferson. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 150–151. |
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