Lost and starving in Bitterroot Mountains — John Ordway: September 18, 1805

Clark and Six hunters Set out at sunrise to go on a head expecting
pared by Wheeler (II, 112) conveys a clearer idea of the situation than any
verbal description can do.
1 Bald Mountain. Wheeler.
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to kill Some game, one of our horses lost, we set out and proceeded
on the Mountains rough and rockey up and Steep places Some
logs and bushes &C. about 3 oClock P. M. we halted on a ridge
to let our horses graze a little and melt a little Snow and made a
little portable Soup, the Mountains continues as fer as our
eyes could extend, they extend much further than we expeted.
we proceeded on untill dark before we found any water then
Camped on the Side of a Mountain, had come 14 miles this day.
took our horses down a Steep gulley to a run to water them, we
Supped on a little portable Soup and Slept on this Sidling Moun-
tain.1