Journal entry · September 27, 1805
Canoe Camp on Clearwater River — John Ordway: September 27, 1805
John Ordway · Canoe Camp on Clearwater River · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Canoe Camp on Clearwater River
five differeent parties and went at falling five pitch pine trees for
5 canoes, all near our Encampments in the afternoon the man
who went back to the Mountains for the 2 horses returned, had
found one of the horses, and had killed a large deer and brought a
part of it with him.
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Canoe Camp junction Clearwater and North Fork, west of Orofino, ID
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of September 25 to September 30, 1805
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