Journal Entry

Meriwether Lewis: August 17, 1805

August 17, 1805
Meriwether Lewis Camp Fortunate, Montana Thwaites Vol. 2, pp. 360-368

Shortly after Capt. Clark arrived with the Interpreter Charbono, and the Indian woman, who proved to be a sister of the Chief Cameahwait. the meeting of those people was really affecting, particularly between Sah-cah-gar-we-ah and an Indian woman, who had been taken prisoner at the same time with her and who, had afterwards escaped from the Minnetares and rejoined her nation. At noon the Canoes arrived, and we had the satisfaction once more to find ourselves all together, with a flattering prospect of being able to obtain as many horses shortly as would enable us to prosicute our voyage by land should that by water be deemed unadvisable.

Source: Thwaites, Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1904–05). Public domain.

Entities mentioned in this entry

Tribes & Nations:
Animals:
Cultural:
Trade Goods:

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

Terrain360 · the place today

Camp Fortunate, Montana in 360°

Lemhi Pass to Clark Canyon · 949 panoramas on this trail Nearest capture is 3.9 mi from the tagged location.

Terrain360 panorama near Camp Fortunate, Montana

10 frames across 1.8 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.