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Journal entry · September 17, 1805
Lost and starving in Bitterroot Mountains — John Ordway: September 17, 1805
John Ordway · Lost and starving in Bitterroot Mountains · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Lost and starving in Bitterroot Mountains
look for our horses found Some of them much Scattered, we
did not find them all untill about 12 oClock at which time we Set
out and proceeded on. the Snow melted of[f] the timber, the trail
verry rough we came up and down bad Steep places of the
Mountain, the afternoon clear and pleasant & warm, the snow
melted fast, the water Stood in the trail over our mock118 Some
places Slippery, we assended a steep high rockey part of the
Mountain high rocks and high pricipicies. we Camped on this
Mountain1 at a small creek and dry pine timber, we being verry
hungry oblidged us to kill another colt the last we had one of
the hunters chased a bear up the Mountain but could not kill it.
we hear wolves howl some distance a head.
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