Journal entry · June 10, 1804

Missouri River near Jefferson City area — Joseph Whitehouse: June 10, 1804

Joseph Whitehouse · Missouri River near Jefferson City area · Thwaites Vol. Thwaites Vol 7

The place today: Missouri River near Jefferson City area

We got to the Charrotte River at 2 Oclock Waited the
Arrival of the hunters there Suffer? by the Musquitoes on
the N. E. Side The Bigg Charrottoe is 100 Y* at the mouth.
The little comus in to it at the Distance of 300 Y* apart
it? Brenth at the mouth is 50 Y* Broad Swem the horses
and ferried the men across had hard watter Camp‘ On the
Charrotte prarie Roe* 13 Miles.

Entities mentioned in this entry

Animals:

Auto-extracted from the entry text. Hover any entity for context.

The NPS atlas for this night

right shore near mouth of Bear Creek, MO

NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of June 10 to June 11, 1804

About 9.4 miles of travel mapped this day (NPS’s reconstruction of the course)

360° view at this camp ↗ (opens in a new tab)

From the NPS Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas, mirrored here on September 21, 2026. This copy is not authoritative; NPS remains the system of record. About the mirror

Terrain360 · the place today

Missouri River near Jefferson City area in 360°

Lewis and Clark Memorial · 8 panoramas on this trail · 32 journal entries written here Nearest capture is 1.3 mi from the tagged location.

8 frames across 0.0 mi of the route around this location

Help improve this record

See something that needs correcting, or know a source we are missing? The archive gets better through its readers.

Send a correction

Our Partners

Follow the research

New findings, additions, and corrections from the archive. One email a month, no noise.