Journal entry · July 13, 1805
Clark: July 13, 1805
William Clark · Great Falls Portage
The place today: Great Falls Portage
July 13th Saturday 1805. a fair Calm Morning, verry Cool before daywe
were visited by a Buffalow Bull who came within a fiew Steps of one of the
Canoes the men were at work. Capt. Lewis one man &c. arrived over Land
at 9 oClock, the wind rose and blew hard from the S. E. the greater part
of the day both Canoes finished all to Corking & fixing ores &c.
&c. The Hunters killed 3 Buffalow the most of all the meat I had dried
for to make Pemitigon. The Musquetors & Knats verry troublesom all day
& night
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About 16.2 miles of travel mapped this day (NPS’s reconstruction of the course)
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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