musk-rats

Animal · mentioned in 2 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):
4 mentions via 2 variants: rat (3) · rats (1)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Lewis: August 8, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Aug 8, 1805 · Jefferson/Beaverhead River near present-day Dillon
"great quantity in rivers"
Lewis: March 11, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Mar 11, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"compared to water lizard's tail" — transcribed as Musk-rat

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