Journal Entry

Patrick Gass: May 16, 1804

May 16, 1804
Patrick Gass St. Charles, Missouri

Wednesday 16th. We continued our voyage, and arrived at St. Charles, a village on the north side of the Missouri, about 21 miles from its mouth. We remained here some days.

Source: Patrick Gass, A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery (Pittsburgh, 1807; 1811 reprint). Public domain. McKeehan’s published prose, not Gass’s lost original notebook.

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