polecat

Animal · mentioned in 6 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):
3 mentions via 1 variant: polecat (3)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Clark: September 26, 1804
William Clark · Sep 26, 1804 · Teton Sioux confrontation near Pierre, SD
"skins used to hold smokeables"
Clark: May 25, 1805
William Clark · May 25, 1805 · Missouri River near Musselshell River
"first seen in some time"
Lewis: August 21, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Aug 21, 1805 · Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait
"skins ornament tops of moccasins" — transcribed as polecats
Lewis: February 15, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Feb 15, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"skunk, native wild animal"
Clark: February 26, 1806
William Clark · Feb 26, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"abundant near falls of Columbia" — transcribed as Polecat
Lewis: April 3, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Apr 3, 1806 · Portaging Cascades of the Columbia upstream
"small skin worn as covering"

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