Missouri River near Tavern Cave — John Ordway: May 24, 1804

lected encamped on S Side
1 Capt. Amos Stoddard, U. S. A. He was the commissioner appointed by
President Jefferson to receive Upper Louisiana from France. The ceremony
of transfer occurred Mar. 10, 1804, with Captain Lewis as the chief official
witness. The transfer effected, Stoddard became military governor of Upper
Louisiana.
2 Lieutenant Worrall, one of Captain Stoddard’s officers.
• For a list, together with some account of the various members of the expedi-
tion mentioned by Ordway in the course of the journal, see Coues, I, 253 59.
4 Bonhomme Creek. All of the journalists who mention it labor over its
spelling. It joins the Missouri in St. Louis County.
5 The Femme Osage River. Clark writes it “Osage Womans R”; Floyd,
“the wife of Osage River.”
6 Clark gives the dimensions as “about 120 feet wide 40 feet Deep & 20 feet
high.” The cave was a well-known Btopping place for voyagers on the Missouri.
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