Journal entry · July 13, 1804
Missouri River near Platte River mouth — John Ordway: July 13, 1804
John Ordway · Missouri River above St. Joseph · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): bar near right shore 3 mi south of Corning, MO, in KA (location uncertain, per NPS)
on passed the Mouth of the Big Tarkio River1 last night at
10 O’Clock a violent Storm from the N.N. E. which lasted for one
hour, a small Shower succeded the wind, the Latidude of yesterday
39° 55′ 56″ Long.2 passed a prarie level and beautiful below
some high hills, containing an amence Site of Grapes, wild Rye
&.C. Cap* Clark killed 2 Goslins, Drewyer 2 also, the wind
favourable from the South, the men Caught 2 Geese on a Sand
barr one an old one (the old Geese have pin feathers yet cannot
fly.) Since passing the Nodaway River the hills could only be seen
in a fiew places at a great Distance from the River on the North
Side of the Missouris. But on the South Side their is high Land. &
handsome praries the most of the way from the old Village of the
Kansas we camped on a large Sand bar in the m: of the River
opposite a high & extensive prarie, on the North Side (came about
20 miles today)
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The NPS atlas for this night
bar near right shore 3 mi south of Corning, MO, in KA (location uncertain, per NPS)
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino)
About 22.7 miles of travel mapped this day (NPS’s reconstruction of the course)
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
Terrain360 · the place today
Missouri River above St. Joseph in 360°
10 frames across 0.9 mi of the route around this location
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