American Badger

Jul 31 1804

Council Bluffs, Iowa (first council site) — John Ordway: July 31, 1804

...n to hunt 1 Corruption of blaireau, the French name for the badger. 2 Not to be confused with modern Council Bluffs, Iowa, some fifteen miles south of this point; the...

Dec 30 1804

Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: December 30, 1804

...ch the French call a prarow, or brarow, is a species of the badger.

Jan 18 1805

Fort Mandan (winter) — Joseph Whitehouse: January 18, 1805

...us that these animals we called Brarows are a Specie of the Badgers, which are common in Europe.

Apr 7 1805

John Ordway: April 7, 1805

...a barking Squerrell Some Mountain Rams horns a prarie hen & badgers Some birds cauled magpies & a nomber of other curious things too tedious to mention &.C. we took w...

Feb 26 1806

Lewis: February 26, 1806

...an animal of the civit genus and much resembles the common badger. this is an inhabitant of the open plains of the Columbia as they are of those of the Missouri bu...

Feb 27 1806

Clark: February 27, 1806

...an animal of the Civit genus and much resembles the common badger. this is an enhabitent of the open plains of the Columbia as they are of those of the Missouri, bu...

Jul 25 1806

John Ordway: July 25, 1806

...e River raises fast Collins killed a buffaloe and a brarow [badger].

Jul 28 1806

Lewis/Clark descending Missouri/Yellowstone to reunion — John Ordway: July 28, 1806

...s on Two Medicine River about four miles below the month of Badger Creek. 1806] SERGEANT ORDWAY'S JOURNAL 383 & he was running of[f] with R. Fields and his brothers J...

Sep 18 1806

Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area — Patrick Gass: September 18, 1806

... 8, 166, 206, 211 Ash creek, 4 Assiniboin Indians, 65, 75 B Badger, description of, 17; mentioned, 46, 66 Bald-pated prairie, 284 Barbarole Indians, see Jonkta Indian...