Lewis travels from St. Louis to winter camp at Wood River across from the mouth of the Missouri where soldiers are busy making ready for their voyage up the Missouri. Some payment drafts from this date were apparently rejected.
Missouri-Mississippi Confluence
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© 2000 Airphoto, Jim Wark. All rights reserved.
In 1804, the Missouri River entered further upstream, For the historic channel, see The Mouth of the Missouri.
Lewis Comes to Camp
all hands at work prepareing for the voyage up the Missourie. Cap Louis arrived at 4 oClock from St Louis
—William Clark
Rejected Payments
No. 3 4 & 5. for 500$ each and left blank as to the name of the person in whos favour they wer drawn, and sent to Mr. Pike for negociation were dated on the 28th of March 1804. these draughts wer not negocitated but were returned me and distroyed—
—Meriwether Lewis
Weather Diary
Therm at rise
weather wind Therm at 4 Oclk weather wind River 42 above 0 cloudy N E 52 above 0 cloudy E rise 5 ½ in. Capt. Lewis returned to Camp
—Meriwether Lewis and William Clark[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “1804 Day of the Month,” merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.
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.
In present St. Louis, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial “commemorates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the continental expansion of the United States” and is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service.
Notes
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