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Journal entry · September 4, 1805

William Clark: September 4, 1805

William Clark · Ross's Hole, Bitterroot Valley, Montana · Thwaites Vol. 3, pp. 36-40

That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): camp with Salish on Camp Creek south of Sula, MT

September 4th Wednesday 1805. N. 10° W. 6 miles on a Direct Course over a high Snow mountain & down a Drean of Flat head River to a fork on the right, (our rout on a Dividing ridge to the right 9 m. about, bad road) … a wide Vallie. 33 tents of Flat heads.

Source: Thwaites, Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1904–05). Public domain.

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camp with Salish on Camp Creek south of Sula, MT

NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of September 4 to September 5, 1805

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