Lewis: to Great Falls / Clark: to Three Forks — John Ordway: July 5, 1806
The party crossed the right fork of the Nez Perce river, finding it nearly deep enough to swim, then continued upstream and crossed the other fork. Hunters killed a deer and a bighorn sheep. They stopped about three hours at midday to dine, during which Shannon went back to retrieve a tomahawk he had left where he killed the deer. In the evening they reached the smooth plains where they had first met the Flatheads the previous year, and camped on a branch. Hunters killed two more deer, and Shannon rejoined the group.
and Set out to cross the right [Nez Perce] fork of the river which
we found nearly Swimming. proceed on up the river Some dis-
tance crossd the other fork, the hunters killed a deer and a
Mountain Sheep or big horn animel. about noon we halted in a
bottom to dine. Shannon left his tommahawk back where he
killed the deer & went back for it. we delayed about 3 hours
and proceed on over the hills towards evening we came to the
Smooth plains where we saw the 1st flat heads or Tus e paw last
year as we passd down, we Camped on the branch & plain1 the
hunters killed two deer. Shannon joined us with his tomma-
hawk &C.
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We set out to cross the right [Nez Perce] fork of the river, which we found nearly deep enough to swim. We proceeded on up the river some distance and crossed the other fork. The hunters killed a deer and a mountain sheep, or bighorn animal. About noon we halted in a bottom to dine. Shannon left his tomahawk back where he killed the deer and went back for it. We delayed about 3 hours and proceeded on over the hills. Toward evening we came to the smooth plains where we saw the first Flatheads, or Tushepaw, last year as we passed down. We camped on the branch and plain. The hunters killed two deer. Shannon rejoined us with his tomahawk, etc.
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