A Colt Falls Prey to Our Appetites: Three Voices on Bitterroot Hunger
1805-09-17The September 17, 1805 entries from Patrick Gass, John Ordway, and William Clark converge on…
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View allA Conic Mound of Stones: Four Voices on the Bitterroot Summit
1806-06-27The journals of June 27, 1806 offer an unusually clean specimen of how the Lewis…
A Day’s Rest at Travelers’ Rest, and Three Riders from the West
1805-09-10September 10, 1805 was meant to be a logistical pause. The captains halted at Travelers'…
Bidding Adieu to the Snow: Four Voices at Lolo Hot Springs
1806-06-29The descent from the Lolo Trail on June 29, 1806 marked the end of one…
Boiling Springs and a Lost Horse: Four Accounts from the Bitterroot Crossing
1805-09-13The expedition's ascent into the Bitterroot Mountains on September 13, 1805 produced four overlapping journal…
Colt Killed Creek: Hunger and Hard Crossings on the Bitterroot Divide
1805-09-14The September 14, 1805 entries from Whitehouse, Gass, Ordway, and Clark document one of the…
Down the Bitterroot: Four Pens, One Rainy Descent
1805-09-07The entries of September 7, 1805, find the Corps of Discovery descending from the punishing…
Four Pens, One Trail: Departing the Lemhi for the Bitterroot Crossing
1805-08-31The expedition's departure from the Shoshone lodges on August 31, 1805 was recorded by four…
Hungery Creek: Four Voices on a Day of Division in the Bitterroots
1805-09-18September 18, 1805 marks among the strategically pivotal days of the expedition's mountain crossing. With…
Hungry Creek and the Last Mountain: Two Sergeants on the Bitterroot Crossing
1805-09-20September 20, 1805, found the main party of the Corps of Discovery strung out along…
Into the Bitterroots: Four Voices on a Brutal Day’s March
1805-09-12The expedition's first full day on the Lolo Trail produced four overlapping but distinct journal…
Killed-Colt Creek and Snow for Water: Four Accounts of a Brutal Bitterroot Ascent
1805-09-15September 15, 1805 finds the Corps of Discovery laboring up the dividing ridge between the…
Old Toby: The Shoshone Guide Through the Bitterroots
A Note on the Source RecordThe two journal entries provided for this synthesis (dated September…
On the Eve of the Snowy Crossing: Four Voices Pack for the Bitterroots
1806-06-14June 14, 1806 found the Corps of Discovery encamped on the eastern slope of the…
Potts’s Wound and a Rifle for a Guide: Retreat from the Bitterroots
1806-06-18The entries for June 18, 1806 capture the Corps of Discovery in retreat after their…
Quamash in Bloom: Four Views from a Camas Flat at the Foot of the Bitterroots
1806-06-11Stalled below the snowpack of the Bitterroot crossing, the Corps spent June 11, 1806, encamped…
Retrograde March: Four Voices on the Bitterroot Snow Wall
1806-06-17The decision to abandon the first attempt on the Bitterroot crossing produced one of the…
Snow on the Lolo Trail: Two Sergeants, Two Mountains
1805-09-16The journal entries of Sergeants John Ordway and Patrick Gass for September 16, 1805, present…
Summer on One Slope, Winter on the Other: Four Voices on the Bitterroot Snow
1806-06-28The entries of June 28, 1806 offer one of the clearest demonstrations in the expedition…
Ten Feet Ten Inches: Measuring the Snowbound Bitterroots on the Return Crossing
1806-06-26The entries of June 26, 1806, capture the Corps of Discovery on the second day…
The Flathead Salish: Allies in the Bitterroot
First Encounter at Ross's HoleThe Flathead Salish — called "Tushepaws," "Flatheads," or "Ootlashshoots" in the…
The Nez Perce (Chopunnish): Allies of the Bitterroot and Kooskooske
First Encounter at Weippe PrairieWhen Clark's advance party stumbled out of the Bitterroot Mountains in…
Travelers’ Rest: A Pause Before the Bitterroots
1805-09-09September 9, 1805 finds the Corps moving down the Bitterroot Valley to the mouth of…
