Journal entry · July 12, 1805
Clark: July 12, 1805
William Clark · Great Falls Portage
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): Canoe Camp, left bank Missouri River
July 12th Friday 1805 a fair windey morning wind from the S. W. all hands
at work at Day light Some at the Canoes, & others drying meat for our
voyage- Dispatched W. Brattin to the lower Camp for two axes which are
necessary to carry on our work at this place &. Serjt. Pryors Sholder
was put out of place yesterday Carrying Meat and is painfull to day. wind
hard all day dispatched 2 hunters, they returnd in the evening with three
Deer & 2 orters. four men arrived from the lower Camp by land to
assist at this place in building the Canoes &c. musquitors & knats
verry troublesom all day. a fiew wild pigions about our Camp.
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Canoe Camp, left bank Missouri River
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of July 10 to July 12, 1805
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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