Missouri River approaching Cannonball River — John Ordway: October 14, 1804
The expedition continued up the Missouri through timbered bottomlands in what is now Campbell County, passing a creek Clark named Stone Idol Creek (modern Spring or Hermaphrodite Creek) for three stone images found nearby. The day's main event was the court-martial of John Newman and Moses B. Reed, confined the day before. Newman was charged with mutinous expressions, convicted by a jury of nine, sentenced to seventy-five lashes and dismissal from the permanent party. The party made what would be their last camp in South Dakota.
bottom covered with Timber on S. S. passd a creek6 & Black
1 In council the chief, Lassel, had requested the white men to take one of
the Arikara chiefs on with them to the Mandan and the other nations above
on the river in order that peace might be made between them and the Arikara.
1 In Campbell County, about the 1,334 mile point of the Missouri.
8 Clark calls this Stone Idol Creek, from three stone images found in the
vicinity, and relates an interesting legend concerning them. Here as frequently
there is some confusion as to which side of the Missouri the stream comes in.
It is modern Spring, or Hermaphrodite Creek, in northern Campbell County.
4 The trial of John Newman and Moses B. Reed, who had been confined
the day before. Here as in earlier similar cases there is an evident disinclina-
tion on the part of the diarists to speak of the matter. Ordway alone, even
mentions Reed’s name in connection with it. The Orderly Book discloses
that Newman was charged with “having uttered repeated expressions of a
highly criminal and mutinous nature,” to the obvious subversion of discipline
and loyalty on the part of the members of the expedition. He was convicted
by a jury of nine of his peers and sentenced to receive seventy-five lashes on
his bare back and to be “henceforth discarded from the perminent party en-
gaged for North Western discovery.”
6 The last camp in South Dakota, on or near the site of former Vanderbilt
post office.
8 “this creek we call after the third chief Pisheto (or Eagles feather).”
Clark. Laid down as Eagle Feather Creek
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Bottom covered with timber on the south side. Passed a creek and Black
[Note 1] In council the chief, Lassel, had requested the white men to take one of the Arikara chiefs on with them to the Mandan and the other nations above on the river, in order that peace might be made between them and the Arikara.
[Note 2] In Campbell County, about the 1,334 mile point of the Missouri.
[Note 3] Clark calls this Stone Idol Creek, from three stone images found in the vicinity, and relates an interesting legend concerning them. Here, as frequently, there is some confusion as to which side of the Missouri the stream comes in. It is modern Spring, or Hermaphrodite Creek, in northern Campbell County.
[Note 4] The trial of John Newman and Moses B. Reed, who had been confined the day before. Here, as in earlier similar cases, there is an evident disinclination on the part of the diarists to speak of the matter. Ordway alone even mentions Reed's name in connection with it. The Orderly Book discloses that Newman was charged with "having uttered repeated expressions of a highly criminal and mutinous nature," to the obvious subversion of discipline and loyalty on the part of the members of the expedition. He was convicted by a jury of nine of his peers and sentenced to receive seventy-five lashes on his bare back and to be "henceforth discarded from the permanent party engaged for North Western discovery."
[Note 5] The last camp in South Dakota, on or near the site of the former Vanderbilt post office.
[Note 6] "This creek we call after the third chief Pisheto (or Eagle's Feather)." Clark. Laid down as Eagle Feather Creek.
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