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Journal entry · June 28, 1806

Successful Bitterroot crossing with Nez Perce guides — John Ordway: June 28, 1806

John Ordway · Successful Bitterroot crossing with Nez Perce guides · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

The place today: Successful Bitterroot crossing with Nez Perce guides

usal and proceeded on verry well the Snow continues as yester-
day, our guides took us on a ridge different from that we went
last fall, but a better way.2 about one oClock we halted on the
top of a bald mountain on the South Side of which our horses git
tollarable feed. So we delay this afternoon to let our horses re-
fresh themselves &C. in the evening we had Thunder & hail.

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