garter snake

Animal · mentioned in 8 journal entries

Planning Westward Fort Clatsop Return Post-expedition NPS L&C NHT trail data © National Park Service
AI-extracted reference. Each entry below was identified by AI as mentioning garter snake. Spelling variants may not be merged. see related variants →
Also discussed in Coues 1893 (4-vol edition):
2 mentions via 1 variant: snake (2)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Matching wildlife/plant records:
Red-spotted garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis concinnus) Wandering garter snake (Thamnophis elegans vagrans)
Lewis: July 24, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Jul 24, 1805 · Missouri River above Great Falls, Gates of the Mountains
"compared to one species observed"
Lewis: March 11, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Mar 11, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"common on open marshy grounds"
Clark: March 12, 1806
William Clark · Mar 12, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"common on open marshy grounds" — transcribed as Garter Snake
Clark: March 28, 1806
William Clark · Mar 28, 1806 · Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River
"compared to snakes seen on island"
Lewis: March 28, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Mar 28, 1806 · Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River
"compared to Atlantic coast snake"
Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River — Patrick Gass: March 28, 1806
Patrick Gass · Mar 28, 1806 · Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River
"species observed on island" — transcribed as Garter snake
Lewis: March 29, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Mar 29, 1806 · Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River
"innumerable, entwined in large bundles" — transcribed as garter snakes
Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area — Patrick Gass: September 18, 1806
Patrick Gass · Sep 18, 1806 · Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area
"index reference" — transcribed as garter snakes

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