Lewis: to Great Falls / Clark: to Three Forks — John Ordway: July 7, 1806
Upon rounding up the horses, the party found nine missing. Captain Clark directed Ordway to remain behind with four men to search while Clark and the rest of the party departed around 9 a.m. to head for the canoe deposit. Ordway and Labiche followed the horses' tracks up a valley leading toward Shoshone country and recovered the animals on an Indian road by evening. The other three searchers also returned to the previous night's camp. The men hobbled the horses and camped there, enduring several showers of rain and thunder during the afternoon.
up our horses, found all except nine hunted in all directions
for them could not find them. So Cap1 Clark directed me to
1 “at the mouth of Camp Creek in the vicinity of town of Sula.” Coues.
In this vicinity the explorers had camped from Sept. 4-6, 1805.
2 The party had ascended Camp Creek several miles and then crossed the
continental divide to one of the sources of Wisdom or Big Hole River. This
passage of the Rockies is commonly known as Gibbons Pass, so named in honor
of Gen. John Gibbon. Wheeler gives (II, 318-19) an interesting recent account
of the appearance of the country in the vicinity of today’s travel.
3 The camp was “not far south from the spot where, on August 9, 1877,
General Gibbon and Chief Joseph fought the battle of the Big Hole during the
Nez Perce war.” Wheeler. In coming to the battle ground General Gibbon
followed practically the same route across the mountains and down the branch
of Wisdom River that Clark’s party had pursued seventy-one years before.
374 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [July 8
stay with 4 men to hunt this day for them, about 9 Am Cap1
Clark and the rest of the party set out to go to canoe deposite.1
I and the 4 men went out in different directions to look for the
9 horses I and Labuiche went up a valley which led in the
mount” towards the ShoShones nation, got on the track of the
horses and followed it on untill towards evening and found them
still going on an IndD road, we turned them back to the last
nights Camp, the other 3 men had got back their also, we hob-
bled the horses and Camped here, had several Showers of rain
& Thunder in the course of this afternoon.
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We rounded up our horses, but found all except nine. We hunted in all directions for them but could not find them. So Capt. Clark (Capt. Clark) directed me to stay with 4 men to hunt for them this day. About 9 AM Capt. Clark and the rest of the party set out to go to the canoe deposit.
I and the 4 men went out in different directions to look for the 9 horses. I and Labuiche (Labiche) went up a valley which led into the mountains towards the Shoshone nation. We got on the track of the horses and followed it on until towards evening, and found them still going on an Indian road. We turned them back to the last night's camp. The other 3 men had got back there also. We hobbled the horses and camped here. We had several showers of rain and thunder in the course of this afternoon.
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