Lost Trail Pass, meeting Flathead Salish at Ross’s Hole — John Ordway: September 8, 1805
The party traveled down a now-sizable creek, crossing smooth, treeless plains with snow-capped mountains to the left and barren hills to the right. Around 11 o'clock they paused to dine at a branch, where hunters rejoined them with an elk and a deer. The weather turned cold from the northwest, with showers of rain and a little hail. The hunters also picked up two stray horses and a colt. After covering more than 20 miles, the group camped on a smooth bottom near the creek with good forage.
proceeded on down this creek which is now verry large, passed
over Smooth plain no timber except along the bank of the creeks.
Saw Snow on the mount to our left, high barron hills to our right,
about 11 oClock we halted to dine at a branch our hunters
joined us. had killed an Elk, and a Deer which they brought
with them, the wind cold from the N. W. & Showers of rain,
and a little hail, passed over Smooth plains in this valley, the
Mountains are rough on each side and are covred with pine and
on the tops of which are covd with Snow, our hunters found 2
Stray horses and a handsom colt, which they took along with
them we marched 20 odd miles this day and Camped3 on a
Smooth bottom near the creek, where we had fine feed for our
horses, our hunters joined us had killed one Deer.
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Proceeded on down this creek, which is now very large. Passed over a smooth plain with no timber except along the banks of the creeks. Saw snow on the mountain to our left, and high barren hills to our right. About 11 o'clock we halted to dine at a branch, where our hunters joined us. They had killed an elk and a deer, which they brought with them. The wind was cold from the N.W., with showers of rain and a little hail.
Passed over smooth plains in this valley. The mountains are rough on each side and are covered with pine, and the tops of them are covered with snow. Our hunters found two stray horses and a handsome colt, which they took along with them. We marched 20-odd miles this day and camped on a smooth bottom near the creek, where we had fine feed for our horses. Our hunters joined us, having killed one deer.
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