Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt — Patrick Gass: June 2, 1806
Hunters went out, and around noon three men returned from a two-and-a-half-day trip to Lewis's River, where they had gone to obtain fish. They brought back good salmon and roots purchased from native villages along the way. One man traded an old razor to an Indian for two Spanish dollars, reportedly taken from a slain Snake Indian. The party speculated the Snake Indians acquired such dollars and horses from Spaniards near New Mexico. The men described difficult, slippery mountain roads and reported seeing many deer and bighorn sheep.
went out to hunt. About noon three men who had gone over
to Lewis’s river, about two and an half days’ journey distance,
to get some fish, returned with a few very good salmon, and
some roots which they bought at the different villages of the
natives, which they passed. One of these men got two Span-
ish dollars from an Indian for an old razor. They said they
got the dollars from about a Snake Indian’s neck, they had
killed some time ago. There are several dollars among these
people which they get in some way. We suppose the Snake
Indians, some of whom do not live very far from New Mexico
get them from the Spaniards in that quarter. The Snake
Indians also get horses from the Spaniards. The men had a
very disagreeable trip as the roads were mountainous and
slippery. They saw a number of deer, and of the Ibex or
big-horn.
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Went out to hunt. About noon three men who had gone over to Lewis's River, about two and a half days' journey away, to get some fish, returned with a few very good salmon, and some roots which they bought at the different villages of the natives that they passed. One of these men got two Spanish dollars from an Indian for an old razor. They said they got the dollars from around the neck of a Snake Indian they had killed some time ago.
There are several dollars among these people, which they get in some way. We suppose the Snake Indians, some of whom do not live very far from New Mexico, get them from the Spaniards in that quarter. The Snake Indians also get horses from the Spaniards.
The men had a very disagreeable trip, as the roads were mountainous and slippery. They saw a number of deer, and of the Ibex or bighorn.
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