Journal entry · July 12, 1806

Lewis: to Great Falls / Clark: to Three Forks — Patrick Gass: July 12, 1806

Patrick Gass · Lewis: to Great Falls / Clark: to Three Forks · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition

collect our horses and found that ten of them were missing.
I then set out to look for them, went seven miles up Medicine
river, where I found three of them and returned to camp.
Two more went to hunt for them, and the rest of us crossed
the river in our new craft which we find answer the purpose
very well. At night one of the men returned without finding
the lost horses.

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