Successful Bitterroot crossing with Nez Perce guides — Patrick Gass: June 29, 1806

early, proceeded over some bad hills, and came to the old
path; at which time there was a shower of rain, with hail, thun-
der and lightning, that lasted about an hour. At 10 o’clock
we left the snow, and in the evening we arrived at the warm
spring; where we encamped for the night, and most of us
bathed in its water. One of our hunters killed a deer where
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we dined at the glades or plains on Glade creek; and where
there is good grass, and com-mas also grows. Two other
hunters went on ahead and killed another deer on the way.