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Journal entry · May 17, 1805
Missouri River Breaks area — Joseph Whitehouse: May 17, 1805
Joseph Whitehouse · Missouri River Breaks area · Thwaites Vol. Thwaites Vol 7
The place today: Missouri River Breaks area
a clear pleasant morning. we Set off eairly and proceeded
on. passed high broken whiteish couloured hills, which wash
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by rain, and make close to the River on each Side, the bottoms
high and narrow. Some Spots of pitch pine on and between
the hills on each Side, but the cottonwood gits Scarser. we
Saw large gangs of Elk, but a fiew buffaloe. Saw a number of
geese and goslings on the river. about 2 oC. we halted to dine
at a Small bottom on S.S. where there was Some old Indian
Camps. about 3 oC. P. M. we proceeded on towards evening
we killed a brown bear, the first femal that we killed we
passed a creek on the S.S., & verry high rough naked hills on
each Side all this day. we Came 20% miles and Camped ona
narrow plain on the South Side. Killed 2 Elk.
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right shore, 27 mi west of Hell Creek, MT
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About 21.6 miles of travel mapped this day (NPS’s reconstruction of the course)
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