Journal entry · May 18, 1806

Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt — John Ordway: May 18, 1806

John Ordway · Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

The place today: Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt

out on horseback in order to go out some distance back in the high
country to make a Camp hunt, and two men went out for the
meat of the bear killed on 16th Ins4 in the evening 4 of our hunt-
ers returnd had killd nothing but one hawk & a pheasant.

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Camp Chopunnish, east (right) side Clearwater River, Kamiah, ID

NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of May 14 to May 31, 1806

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