Mosquitoes

Animal · mentioned in 5 journal entries

Planning Westward Fort Clatsop Return Post-expedition NPS L&C NHT trail data © National Park Service
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Also discussed in Coues 1893 (4-vol edition):
2 mentions via 1 variant: mosquitoes (2)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Clark: July 30, 1804
William Clark · Jul 30, 1804 · Council Bluffs, Iowa (first council site)
"great number this evening"
Lewis: July 22, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Jul 22, 1805 · Missouri River above Great Falls, Gates of the Mountains
"troublesome this evening" — transcribed as mosquitoes
Jefferson/Beaverhead River near present-day Dillon — Joseph Whitehouse: August 11, 1805
Joseph Whitehouse · Aug 11, 1805 · Jefferson/Beaverhead River near present-day Dillon
"troublesome at evening camp"
Lewis: up Marias River / Clark: down Yellowstone — John Ordway: July 23, 1806
John Ordway · Jul 23, 1806 · Great Falls Portage
"ferocious, tormenting men and dog" — transcribed as mosquitoes
Clark: September 11, 1806
William Clark · Sep 11, 1806 · Missouri River near St. Joseph area
"no longer troublesome on river" — transcribed as mosquitoes

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