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Journal entry · August 27, 1805
Clark: August 27, 1805
William Clark · Lemhi Valley, preparing to cross Bitterroots
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): Fish Weir Camp on Lemhi River, ID
August 27th Tuesday 1805 Some frost this morning every Man except one, out
hunting, a young man Came from the upper Village & informed me that
Capt Lewis would join me abt. 12 oClock to day. one man killed a Small
Sammon, and the Indians gave me another which afforded us a Sleight
brackfast. Those Pore people are here depending on what fish They Can
Catch, without anything else to depend on; and appere Contented, my party
hourly Complaining of their retched Situation and doubts of Starveing in a
Countrey where no game of any kind except a fiew fish can be found, an
Indian brough in to the Camp 5 Sammon, two of which I purchased which
afforded us a Supper.
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Fish Weir Camp on Lemhi River, ID
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of August 26 to August 28, 1805
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Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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