Journal entry · October 3, 1805

Canoe Camp on Clearwater River — John Ordway: October 3, 1805

John Ordway · Canoe Camp on Clearwater River · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

The place today: Canoe Camp on Clearwater River

men returned with the meat. 2 hunters Stayed out a hunting a
number of Indians came in a Canoe to our Camp, in the evening
the two hunters returned had killed Six Elk about 5 miles dis-
tance from this place.

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