Journal entry · August 17, 1804

Missouri River near Little Sioux River — Charles Floyd: August 17, 1804

Charles Floyd · Missouri River near Little Sioux River · Thwaites Vol. Thwaites Vol 7

The place today: Missouri River near Little Sioux River

Continued Hear for ouer men thay did not Return Last
night
Satturday augt 18%
ouer men Returnd and Brot with them the man and Brot
with them the Grand Chief of the ottoes and 2 Loer ones and
6 youers [others ?] of thare nattion*
[On last fly-leaf.]
the 224 June
Charles Floyd
Winer az
R. Field 2”
J. Field Gard for thompson 16™ July
Newman 4
Gass Gard for thompson
MCNeel
thompson
1 The following day, August 19, Floyd was ‘taken verry bad all at once with a
Biliose Chorlick’” —see Clark’s journal, vol. i, pp. 114, 115, amte—and on the
twentieth died.—Ep.
[ 26 ]
The Original Journal of Private Joseph
Whitehouse
May 14, 1804-November 6, 1805
The ORIGINAL JOURNAL OF
Private JOSEPH WHITEHOUSE’

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