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Journal entry · September 1, 1804

Calumet Bluff, meeting with Yankton Sioux — Joseph Whitehouse: September 1, 1804

Joseph Whitehouse · Calumet Bluff, meeting with Yankton Sioux · Thwaites Vol. Thwaites Vol 7

That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): island, 10 mi west of Gaviins Point Dam, SD NE (location uncertain, per NPS)

a hard Storm of wind and rain last night which lasted about
2 hours, cloudy this morning we Set off eairly three men
out hunting. the hunters killed three Elk. we halted at 8
1 The entry for Sept. x is in handwriting No. 2. — Ep.
LEWIS AND CLARK JOURNALS _[Sept. 3
oC on the S. S. where their was an ancient fortification in the
form of a half moon it appeared that one Side had washed in
to the river. Cap! Clark took the dimentions of it. the wind
high from the North So that we were obledged to lay too at a
high prarie where we found plumbs & Grapes a pleanty.

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The NPS atlas for this night

island, 10 mi west of Gaviins Point Dam, SD NE (location uncertain, per NPS)

NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino)

About 14.8 miles of travel mapped this day (NPS’s reconstruction of the course)

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Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.

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