Missouri River near White River — John Ordway: September 14, 1804

John Ordway · Missouri River near White River · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): right shore, 2 mi below White River, SD

Cloudy. George Drewyer caught 3 Beaver last night. I Serg1
Pryor & Shannon returned to the Boat at 8 o. C. where they were
at breakfast, near a grove of Timber N. S. the water Shallow,
all hands out in water several times to drag the Boat over the
Sand bars &C. passd a black Bluff on S. S. Cap’ Clark &. C.
one man went out hunting on S. S. John Shields who went on
Shore with the horse killed a verry large white rabbit or haire
it was as big as a Uropean hare, nearly all white & of a
different discription of any one ever yet seen in the States,
passed a creek on S. S. & a grove of Timber Some rain we
1 Only Ordway records the Dame given to the island. Coues locates the
camp for iliis day a1 Rosebud Landing, Gregory County.
1804] SERGEANT ORD WAY’S JOURNAL 131
Camped on the South Side in a stripe of woods.1 Cap* Clark
joined us had killed a curious annamil resembling a Goat2 Wil-
lard brought it on board, it was 3 feet high resembles a Deer
in some parts the legs like a Deer, feet like a Goat, horns like
a Goat only forked Turn back picked hair thick & of a white
a dark redish coullour. Such an anamil was never yet known in
U. S. States, the Cap4 had the Skins of the hair & Goat Stuffed
in order to Send back to the city of Washington, the bones and
all.