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Journal entry · September 19, 1805
Lost and starving in Bitterroot Mountains — Patrick Gass: September 19, 1805
Patrick Gass · Lost and starving in Bitterroot Mountains · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Lost and starving in Bitterroot Mountains
that they were not collected until noon, at which time we
began our march again. It was a fine day with warm sun-
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shine, which melted the snow very fast on the south sides of
the hills, and made the travelling very fatiguing and uncom-
fortable. We continued over high desert mountains, where
our hunters could find no game, nor signs of any except a
bear’s tract which they observed to day. — At dark we halted
at a spring on the top of a mountain; killed another colt, and
encamped there all night.
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3 mi above Bowl Creek, ID
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