Journal entry · June 19, 1805
Great Falls of the Missouri — John Ordway: June 19, 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
men Sent over the River for the meat which was killed last night,
three hunters sent up to the head of the falls to a river called
Medicine River1 on the N. Side, we Set them across here in a
canoe, we kept a canoe to cross the River in. the wind verry high
from N. W. we prepare to move the Goods & baggage &. C.
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Lower Portage Camp, Hower Coulee
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of June 16 to June 27, 1805
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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