Journal entry · July 3, 1806
Travelers’ Rest – party splits: Lewis north, Clark south — Patrick Gass: July 3, 1806
Patrick Gass · Travelers' Rest - party splits: Lewis north, Clark south · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Travelers' Rest near present-day Lolo, MT
our horses and set out. Captain Lewis and his party
went down Clarke’s river, and Captain Clarke with the rest of
the party went up it. All the natives accompanied Captain
Lewis. We proceeded on down Clarke’s river about 12 miles,
when we came to the forks : and made three rafts to carry
ourselves and baggage over. The river here is about 150
yards wide, and very beautiful. We had to make three trips
with our rafts, and in the evening got all over safe ; when we
moved on up the north branch, which is our way over to the
falls of the Missouri, and after travelling a mile and an half
encamped for the night. Two hunters went out and killed
three deer. The musquitoes are worse here than I have known
them at any place, since we left the old Maha-village on the
Missouri. This north branch of the river is called by the
natives Isquet-co-qual-la, which means the road to the buf-
faloe.*
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The NPS atlas for this night
north of Clark Fork, SE of Council Hill, Missoula, MT
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From the NPS Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas, mirrored here on September 21, 2026. This copy is not authoritative; NPS remains the system of record. About the mirror
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