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Journal entry · October 6, 1804
Missouri River near Cheyenne River — Joseph Whitehouse: October 6, 1804
Joseph Whitehouse · Missouri River near Cheyenne River · Thwaites Vol. Thwaites Vol 7
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): bar at mouth of Otter (Swan) Creek, SD (location uncertain, per NPS)
Set off eairly. clear & pleasant. about 11 oC we were
passing a bottom covered with timber on the S. S. 2 of our
hunters went out and killed 1 Elk. in this bottom a band of
the Rick a rees lived last winter. they left a nomber of round
huts covered with earth, and Some water-crafts made out of
buffaloe hides. proceeded on passed a creek on the S. S. we
Camped on a Sand beach on N. S,
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The NPS atlas for this night
bar at mouth of Otter (Swan) Creek, SD (location uncertain, per NPS)
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino)
About 13.8 miles of travel mapped this day (NPS’s reconstruction of the course)
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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