Lolo Trail, ascending into Bitterroot Mountains — Patrick Gass: September 12, 1805
The expedition continued down a river through a poor, gravelly valley, with snow-topped mountains visible to the left and a general north-northwest course. After halting at noon, they resumed travel at 2 o'clock and crossed the Flathead River, about 100 yards wide, which they named Clarke's River. They passed through two miles of pitch pine timber before reaching open plains again. Hunters killed three wild geese and three deer, providing ample provisions. After traveling 19 miles, the party camped on a large creek flowing in from the south.
continued our journey down the river. The soil of the valley
is poor and gravelly; and the high snow-topped mountains
are still in view on our left; Our course generally north a few
degrees west. We halted at noon: on our way the hunters
had killed 3 wild geese; so we have plenty of provisions at
present. At 2 o’clock we again went forward, and crossed
over the Flathead river, about 100 yards wide, and which we
called Clarke’s river; passed through a close timbered bot-
tom of about two miles, and again came into beautiful plains.
140 GASS’S JOURNAL OF THE
The timber on this bottom is pitch pine. We travelled 19
miles and encamped ona large creek, which comes in from the
south. Our hunters this day killed 3 deer.
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We continued our journey down the river. The soil of the valley is poor and gravelly, and the high snow-topped mountains are still in view on our left. Our course was generally north, a few degrees west. We halted at noon. On our way the hunters had killed 3 wild geese, so we have plenty of provisions at present.
At 2 o'clock we again went forward, and crossed over the Flathead river, about 100 yards wide, which we called Clarke's river. We passed through a closely timbered bottom of about two miles, and again came into beautiful plains. The timber on this bottom is pitch pine. We traveled 19 miles and camped on a large creek, which comes in from the south. Our hunters this day killed 3 deer.
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