rattlesnake

Animal · mentioned in 9 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):
8 mentions via 3 variants: rat (3) · rattlesnake (3) · snake (2)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Matching wildlife/plant records:
Northern Pacific rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus oreganus) Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis)
Birth of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
Feb 11, 1805 · Fort Mandan, North Dakota
"crushed rattle used as labor remedy"
Clark: May 16, 1805
William Clark · May 16, 1805 · Missouri River Breaks area
"Clark nearly bitten, one killed at camp"
Lewis: June 15, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Jun 15, 1805 · Great Falls of the Missouri
"found coiled near Lewis, killed"
Lewis: August 15, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Aug 15, 1805 · Camp Fortunate / Shoshone contact
"nearly bit Clark and Sacagawea" — transcribed as rattlesnakes
Lewis: March 11, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Mar 11, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"few seen this side of mountains"
Lewis: April 25, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Apr 25, 1806 · Overland to Walla Walla, council with Yelleppit
"several killed by party" — transcribed as rattlesnakes
Lewis: May 16, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · May 16, 1806 · Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt
"compared in color to killed snake"
Lewis: May 30, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · May 30, 1806 · Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt
"abundant, only poisonous snake encountered" — transcribed as Rattlesnake
Lewis: August 4, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Aug 4, 1806 · Lewis/Clark descending Missouri/Yellowstone to reunion
"killed, 5 feet, 176 abdominal scuta"

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