Journal entry · June 18, 1805
Great Falls of the Missouri — John Ordway: June 18, 1805
John Ordway · Great Falls of the Missouri · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): Lower Portage Camp, Hower Coulee
long perogue. we leave [it] in a bunch of bushes below the Camp,
we covered hir over with bushes & dry wood. Secured hir Safe.
3 men Sent to a knob a short distance out to dig a cash or hole to
put a fiew heavey articles in which we can Spare, to deposite at
this place, the day pleasant we repacked the Indian goods &. C.
moved all the baggage near to camp, about 12 oClock the hunters
came in had killed 10 deer but no Elk, in the evening we saw
some buffalow on the opposite Shore. Some of the hunters crossed
and killed 2 of them the little low waggons compleated. all
made of wood & of a ordinary quallity though they may answer
the purpose, the wind high from the West, our Intrepters wife
some what better than She has been for some time past, we are
now 2580J miles from the mouth of the Missourie River.
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The NPS atlas for this night
Lower Portage Camp, Hower Coulee
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of June 16 to June 27, 1805
About 11.6 miles of travel mapped this day (NPS’s reconstruction of the course)
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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