prairie dog

Animal · mentioned in 4 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: dog (3)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Matching wildlife/plant records:
Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)
Clark: July 30, 1804
William Clark · Jul 30, 1804 · Council Bluffs, Iowa (first council site)
"food of the brarow" — transcribed as Prairie Dogs
Patrick Gass: September 7, 1804
Patrick Gass · Sep 7, 1804 · Missouri River near present-day Chamberlain, SD area / White River confluence region
"killed one, size of small domestic dog"
Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: November 7, 1804
Patrick Gass · Nov 7, 1804 · Fort Mandan, North Dakota
"killed one, attempted to flood village"
Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area — Patrick Gass: September 18, 1806
Patrick Gass · Sep 18, 1806 · Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area
"village visited"

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