Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait — John Ordway: August 24, 1805
The party spent the morning trading with a band of the Snake nation that had arrived the previous day and was heading to the Missouri to hunt buffalo. They acquired three or four more horses and hired two, loading roughly 20 horses with baggage, with Shoshone women carrying the remainder. Setting out around noon to cross the dividing mountains, they traveled up the valley, but Peter Wiser suddenly fell ill with colic, limiting progress to about five miles. They camped beside a creek near a large plain, experienced a brief rain shower, and one man caught several large trout while a returning hunter brought nothing.
that the band of the Snake nation who came here yesterday are
going down on the Missourie after the buffaloe and offers Some of
their horses for Sale So we delay this morning in order to purchase
some from them, we got three or 4 more horses & hired two and
loaded all our horses 12 in nomber. then the Squaws took on
their horses the remainder of our baggage we had ab* 20 horses
loaded with baggage and Set out about 12 oClock on our journey to
cross the dividing mountains, we went about 3 miles up the
valley, one of the men P. Wiser was taken of a Sudden with the
collick and ditained us so that we got only about 5 miles this after-
noon and Camped at the creek on the edge of a large Smooth plain
we had a small shower of rain one of the men caught several
large Trout one of the hunters came to camp had killd nothing.
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The band of the Snake nation who came here yesterday is going down to the Missouri after the buffalo, and they offered some of their horses for sale, so we delayed this morning in order to purchase some from them. We got three or four more horses and hired two, and loaded all our horses, twelve in number. Then the squaws took on their horses the remainder of our baggage. We had about 20 horses loaded with baggage and set out about 12 o'clock on our journey to cross the dividing mountains.
We went about 3 miles up the valley, when one of the men, P. Wiser (Peter Weiser), was suddenly taken with the colic and detained us, so that we got only about 5 miles this afternoon and camped at the creek on the edge of a large smooth plain. We had a small shower of rain. One of the men caught several large trout. One of the hunters came to camp, having killed nothing.
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