Bitterroot crossing attempt, turned back by snow — Patrick Gass: June 11, 1806
A frosty day at camp on a roughly two-thousand-acre plain ringed by pine timber and carpeted with blossoming strawberry vines, with service-berry and gooseberry as the main underwood. Several men went out hunting in the morning and returned by noon with a bear and two deer. In the evening, more men set out to camp overnight and hunt, while one went back to the previous campsite to search for a horse left behind. The local natives departed, leaving the party on its own.
frost. Several of the men turned out to hunt; and returned
at noon, having killed a bear and two deer. In this plain
there are the most strawberry vines I ever saw, and now all in
blossom. This plain contains about two thousand acres, and
is surrounded with beautiful pine timber of different kinds.
The soil is very good; the underwood among the timber
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chiefly service-berry and gooseberry bushes. In the evening
several of the men started, with an intention of encamping out
to hunt; and one went back to our late camp to look for the
horse, which had been left behind. The natives all left us and
we remained in quietness by ourselves.
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Frost. Several of the men went out to hunt and returned at noon, having killed a bear and two deer. In this plain there are more strawberry vines than I have ever seen, and they are now all in blossom. This plain contains about two thousand acres and is surrounded with beautiful pine timber of different kinds. The soil is very good; the underbrush among the timber consists chiefly of serviceberry and gooseberry bushes.
In the evening several of the men set out, intending to camp out while hunting, and one went back to our previous camp to look for the horse that had been left behind. The natives all left us, and we remained in quietness by ourselves.
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