Jefferson/Beaverhead River near present-day Dillon — Joseph Whitehouse: August 7, 1805
a clear cool morning. one man out to hunt. we unloaded
one of the Small canoes and halled it out in a grove of cotton
trees and leave hir here. we put [out] the Indian goods &c.
to git throully dry. Cap! Lewis took an observation & Shot
the air gun. the lost man not returned. the day warm, the
large horse flyes troublesome &c. about one oClock we
packed up all the baggage and Set off & proceeded on up the
middle fork. we find the current not So rapid as the right
fork. the rapids not so bad. we had Thunder Showers &
high wind this afternoon. passed Smooth plains on each Side
&c. Camped after coming 7 miles on a bottom of wood &
bushes L. Side. our hunter G. Drewyer joined us had killed
a deer.
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