Lewis: to Great Falls / Clark: to Three Forks — Patrick Gass: July 12, 1806
The party gathered their horses and discovered ten were missing. Gass set out to search and rode seven miles up the Medicine River, recovering three before returning to camp. Two other men were sent to continue hunting for the remaining strays, while the rest of the group used their newly built craft to cross the river, which performed well. By nightfall, one of the searchers returned to camp without having located any of the lost horses.
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.
Read this entry in modern English AI-translated
We gathered 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 men went to hunt for the others, and the rest of us crossed the river in our new craft, which we find answers the purpose very well. At night one of the men returned without finding the lost horses.
This modernization is AI-generated for accessibility. The original above is the authoritative version.
Entities mentioned in this entry
Auto-extracted from the entry text. Hover any entity for context.
