Journal entry · August 20, 1805
Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait — John Ordway: August 20, 1805
John Ordway · Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Camp Fortunate / Shoshone contact
frost, two men out a hunting, the men at Camp all employed
dressing Skins &C. the 2 Indians at our Camp behave verry
well and their Squaws mend our mockisons, and make Some &C.
and are as friendly as any Savages we have yet seen, our hunters
returned in the afternoon but had killed nothing, the game Scearse.
G. Drewyer caught a beaver in a trap last night, it got away and
carried the trap 2 miles down the river he got it in the afternoon
it was a verry large beaver, the Indians eat it. a nomber of fine
Trout caught this day. Cap* Lewis went a Short distance down the
River and looked out a place undiscovered from [unknown to] the
natives for a carsh or hole to hide Some of our baggage which we
can Spare or do without untill our return.
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The NPS atlas for this night
Fortunate Camp, east side of Beaverhead River
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of August 17 to August 23, 1805
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