The expedition and Lemhi Shoshone guide Toby and his sons move down the Lemhi Valley bound for the Pacific Ocean. Most of their horses have sore backs, but they expect to arrive at the Clearwater River in 10 days. Clark trades his fusil musket for another horse.
One More Horse
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
Trade Fusil Musket Lock
Photo by Mike Carrick.
Musket for a Horse
finding that we Could purchase no more horse than we had for our goods &c. (and those not a Sufficint number for each of our Party to have one which is our wish) I Gave my Fuzee [trade gun] to one of the men & Sold his musket for a horse which Completed us to 29 total horses
—William Clark
Heading to the Pacific
we Purchased pack Cords Made Saddles & Set out on our rout down the river by land guided by my old guide [Toby] one other who joined him, the old gude’s 3 Sons followed him before we Set out
—William Clark
Attending to the Horses
we had great attention paid to the horses, as they were nearly all Sore Backs and Several pore, & young Those horses are indifferent, maney Sore backs and others not acustomed to pack, and as we Cannot put large loads on them
—William Clark
Lemhi River
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Toby’s Misinformation
the road to the North of the River is rough and mountaineous but Sd. he [Toby] could take us in 10 days to a large fork of the River which came in on the South Side where the River would be navigable or in about 15 days we could go to where the tide came up and Salt water. So we concluded to go that road.
—John Ordway
Gass’s Camp
We remained here all day, and in the evening the whole of the corps came down within a mile of our camp, and remained there all night, being a good place for grass.
—Patrick Gass
Weather Diary
State of the Thermometer at rise
Weather at Wind at State of the Thermometer at 4 P.M. Weather at 4 P.M. Wind at 4 P.M. 34 [above 0] cloudy N E 59 [above 0] cloudy N E Set out with the party from Snake Indian village.
—Meriwether Lewis and Clark[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column 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 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column and spelled out some abbreviations. |
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