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Journal entry · October 12, 1805
Snake River rapids, near Lewiston — John Ordway: October 12, 1805
John Ordway · Snake River near present-day Riparia · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Snake River near present-day Riparia
proceeded on as usal. passed a number of old fishing camps
along the Shores, high plains no timber, we came 35 miles
this day and Camped on the Stard Side little above a bad rockey
1 The party had reached the point where the Clearwater loses itself in Snake
River, the great southern fork of the Columbia. The towns of Lewiston, Idaho,
and Clarkston, Wash., are on opposite sides of the Snake at this point. The
camp was below the junction of the Clearwater and Snake, opposite Clarkston,
and diagonally across from Lewiston.
2 At “the mouth of a run in the starboard bend.” Clark. Coues identifies
this as modern Almota Creek, Whitman County. The camp was on or near
the site of the town of Almota.
298 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Oct. 13
rapid.1 our Small pilot canoe and the Indian canoe went over
[the rapids] this evening.
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right shore, near Riparia-Alkalai, WA
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