squirrel

Animal · mentioned in 17 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):
16 mentions via 9 variants: burrowing-squirrel (3) · ground-squirrel (3) · large gray squirrel (2) · small gray squirrel (2) · small brown squirrel (2) · fox-squirrel (1) …
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Matching wildlife/plant records:
American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) Columbian ground squirrel (Urocitellus columbianus) Douglas's squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) Thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus) Western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus)
Fort Mandan, preparing for departure — Patrick Gass: March 31, 1805
Patrick Gass · Mar 31, 1805 · Fort Mandan, preparing for departure
"small dun-colored spotted ground squirrel caught"
Great Falls Portage — Patrick Gass: July 8, 1805
Patrick Gass · Jul 8, 1805 · Great Falls Portage
"small dun-colored spotted ground squirrel"
Lewis: August 23, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Aug 23, 1805 · Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait
"small game in mountain river"
North Fork Salmon River, impassable route — Patrick Gass: September 1, 1805
Patrick Gass · Sep 1, 1805 · North Fork Salmon River, impassable route
"small squirrel killed in forenoon"
North Fork Salmon River, impassable route — Patrick Gass: September 2, 1805
Patrick Gass · Sep 2, 1805 · North Fork Salmon River, impassable route
"small one killed in forenoon"
Celilo Falls and The Dalles portage — Patrick Gass: October 26, 1805
Patrick Gass · Oct 26, 1805 · Celilo Falls and The Dalles portage
"killed by hunters" — transcribed as squirrels
Celilo Falls and The Dalles portage — Patrick Gass: October 27, 1805
Patrick Gass · Oct 27, 1805 · Celilo Falls and The Dalles portage
"killed by hunters with deer" — transcribed as squirrels
Patrick Gass: November 18, 1805
Patrick Gass · Nov 18, 1805 · Cape Disappointment, WA (near modern Ilwaco, WA)
"taken by hunters"
Fort Clatsop, salt works established — Patrick Gass: December 27, 1805
Patrick Gass · Dec 27, 1805 · Fort Clatsop, salt works established
"some killed by hunters" — transcribed as squirrels
Lewis: January 15, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Jan 15, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"compared to size of unknown animal"
Lewis: February 21, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Feb 21, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"prey of black fox/fisher"
Lewis: February 26, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Feb 26, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"comparison; sewelel ran up tree like one"
Columbia near The Dalles, trading for horses — Patrick Gass: April 16, 1806
Patrick Gass · Apr 16, 1806 · Columbia near The Dalles, trading for horses
"four killed, three speckled kind" — transcribed as squirrels
Bitterroot crossing attempt, turned back by snow — Patrick Gass: June 12, 1806
Patrick Gass · Jun 12, 1806 · Bitterroot crossing attempt, turned back by snow
"brown grey, speckled, burrow in ground" — transcribed as squirrels
Lewis: July 4, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Jul 4, 1806 · Lewis: to Great Falls / Clark: to Three Forks
"common to Rocky Mountains, skin preserved"
Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area — Patrick Gass: September 18, 1806
Patrick Gass · Sep 18, 1806 · Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area
"described, varieties mentioned"
Patrick Gass: October 30, 1806
Patrick Gass · Oct 30, 1806
"small ground squirrels brown-grey speckled" — transcribed as squirrels

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