bow and arrows

Weapon · 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: arrows (1) · bow and arrow (1)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Matching weapon records:
Plains Indian Bow and Arrows
Lewis: August 14, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Aug 14, 1805 · Camp Fortunate / Shoshone contact
"slender dependence for hunting" — transcribed as bow and arrow
Lewis: August 19, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Aug 19, 1805 · Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait
"Shoshone offensive arms"
Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait — John Ordway: August 23, 1805
John Ordway · Aug 23, 1805 · Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait
"used by natives to kill deer"
Lewis: August 24, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Aug 24, 1805 · Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait
"used by Shoshones for hunting"
Clark: August 12, 1806
William Clark · Aug 12, 1806 · Lewis and Clark reunite at Missouri-Yellowstone confluence
"Indian escaped with these" — transcribed as Bow and arrows

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