Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt — John Ordway: May 16, 1806

out a hunting, we eat two more of our unruly Stud horses, a light
passage of the mountains. Today’s camp was on the west bank of the Koos-
kooskee, about 1| miles above the mouth of Lawyer’s Canon Creek.
1 With the exception of Fort Mandan and Fort Clatsop the explorers occu-
pied this camp a longer time than they remained in any other one place during
the entire course of the expedition. Although not named by Lewis and Clark
the camp has been named by students of the expedition, in honor of the neigh-
boring Indians, Camp Chopunnish. It was occupied from May 13 until June
10, 1806, exactly four weeks. The site of Camp Chopunnish is less than two
miles below Kamiah, Idaho, on the opposite side of the Kooskooskee. For a
description of the locality as it appeared in 1902, see Wheeler, II, 269-71.
2 With the entry for May 16, 1806, begins a new (and the final) volume of
the manuscript journal. The covers of the volume are gone, and the outer
page is much stained and discolored. The contents of this page and the fol-
lowing one (not presented here) consist of a few disjointed memoranda of game
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rain in the fore part of the day. the after part pleasant, in the
evening our hunters except two returned had wounded three
white bear and killed two two Deer, which they brought in the
meat.