bear oil

Food · mentioned in 5 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):
2 mentions via 2 variants: oil (1) · bear (1)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Lewis: May 5, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · May 5, 1805 · Missouri River near Porcupine River
"boiled and stored in cask"
Missouri River near Musselshell River — John Ordway: May 20, 1805
John Ordway · May 20, 1805 · Missouri River near Musselshell River
"saving oil of yellow bear"
Lewis: May 22, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · May 22, 1805 · Missouri River near Musselshell River
"rendered from killed bear"
Lewis: May 14, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · May 14, 1806 · Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt
"reserved from fat bear for mountains"
Lewis: August 1, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Aug 1, 1806 · Lewis/Clark descending Missouri/Yellowstone to reunion
"several gallons extracted from white bear"

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