Lewis: up Marias River / Clark: down Yellowstone — Patrick Gass: July 21, 1806
The party loaded two canoes onto wagons and moved them forward by hand for some distance while one man searched for the missing horses. He returned at midday empty-handed. Two more men were sent out and also came back at noon without finding them. A larger search party went out in the afternoon but returned at night having seen no sign of the horses. The group camped where the canoes had been left for the night.
out for the horses; and the rest of us put two canoes on the
waggons, and moved them forward by hand some distance,
when the man returned without finding the horses. Two
more men went out to look for them, and at noon came back
without finding them. In the afternoon some more men went
to look for them, who at night returned also without seeing
any thing of them; and we lay where the canoes were all
night. ;
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We sent a man out for the horses, and the rest of us put two canoes on the wagons and moved them forward by hand for some distance. The man returned without finding the horses. Two more men went out to look for them, and at noon they came back without finding them. In the afternoon some more men went to look for them, but at night they also returned without seeing anything of them; and we stayed where the canoes were all night.
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