Journal entry · August 17, 1805
Meriwether Lewis: August 17, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Camp Fortunate, Montana · Thwaites Vol. 2, pp. 360-368
The place today: Camp Fortunate, Montana
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.
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Fortunate Camp, east side of Beaverhead River
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of August 17 to August 23, 1805
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