Arrival at the River Platte
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
Platte and Missouri River Confluence
View southeast, down the Platte into the Missouri
© 2000 Airphoto—Jim Wark.
Platte River
arrived at the lower Mouth of the Great River Platt [Platte] at 10 oClock . . . . The Current of This river Comes with great Velocity roleing its Sands into the Missouri,
—William Clark
Boiling Sands
the particles of this sand being remarkably small and light it is easily boied up and is hurried by this impetuous torrent in large masses from place to place in with irristable forse, collecting and forming sand bars in the course of a few hours which as suddingly disapated to form others and give place perhaps to the deepest channel of the river.
—Meriwether Lewis
Trip up the Platte
Capt Lewis and My Self with 6 men in a perogue went up this Great river Plate about 1 miles . . . . from its rapidity & roleing Sands Cannot be navagated with Boats or Perogues— The Indians pass this river in Skin Boats [bull boats] which is flat and will not turn over. The Otteaus [Otoes] a Small nation reside on the South Side 10 Leagues up, the Panies [Pawnees] on the Same Side 5 Leagus higher up—
—William Clark
Platte River Confluence is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The confluence can be accessed at the Schilling Wildlife Management Area.
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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- 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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