Lewis: Great Falls / Clark: crossing to Yellowstone — John Ordway: July 14, 1806
breakfast and proceeded on down the river, the wind rose hard
ahead Colter killed 2 young beaver about noon we halted the
wind rose so high that we were unable to proceed, so two hunters
went out a hunting in the evening as the wind fell we mooved
down the R. to a bottom and Camped, willard killed one deer.
Saw Indn Sign Collins did not join us this evening, saw buffaloe
Sign &C.
1 A little below the camp of July 31, 1805.
2 The route Clark followed from Three Forks to the Yellowstone was approxi-
mately that of the Northern Pacific Railway from Gallatin past Bozeman to
Livingston, Mont. Ordway’s journal from this time until he joins Gass and
the other men left by Lewis at the camp above Great Falls affords our only
record of this portion of the expedition.
378 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [July 15
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