Wildlife
Cous
Lomatium cous
Habitat
Mouth of Walla Walla River
Conservation
Apparently secure
First Observed
1806-04-29
Cous roots gathered in early spring, pounded into cakes, then sun-dried were diet staple of tribes on Columbia Plateau.
Journal References
15 journal entries mention Cous
Jul
5
1804
Missouri River near St. Joseph area — Charles Floyd: July 5, 1804
...e Bank of the old Kansas village formaley Stood in
1724 the couse of the Indians moving from this place I cant
Larn but natreley Concluded that war has reduced thai...
Jul
25
1804
Near Platte River, Council Bluffs area — Charles Floyd: July 25, 1804
...e Bank of the old Kansas village formaley Stood in
1724 the couse of the Indians moving from this place I cant
Larn but natreley Concluded that war has reduced thai...
Jun
8
1805
Marias River decision camp — John Ordway: June 8, 1805
...-
ous situation.
I Lewis named Marias River in honor of Ins cousin. Miss Maria Wood, al-
though he deemed the honor thus bestowed aot entirely equal to her merits,
...
Jul
17
1805
Lewis: July 17, 1805
...n cops either in the oppen or timbered
lands near the watercouses. the leaf is petiolate of a pale green and
resembles in it's form that of the red currant common...
Jul
18
1805
Lewis: July 18, 1805
...as far up those streams as he could discover them in their
couse towards the mountains. he also saw many bighorn anamals on the
clifts of the mountains. not far b...
Oct
10
1805
Clark: October 10, 1805
...oudy and we were disapointed The Indians
Came down all the Couses of this river on each Side on horses to view us
as we were desending,The man whome we saw at the...
Oct
22
1805
Clark: October 22, 1805
... and they go to war to their first villages in 12 days, the Couse they
pointed is S. E. or to the S of S. E. we are visited by great numbers of
Indians to Day to ...
Feb
16
1806
Lewis: February 16, 1806
...here there are copses of brush and underwood near the
watercouses. they are by no means as plenty on this side of the rocky
mountains as on the other, nor do I be...
Feb
20
1806
Lewis: February 20, 1806
...to be the effect of a series of
uninterupted friendly intercouse, but the well known treachery of the
natives by no means entitle them to such confidence, and we ...
Mar
11
1806
Clark: March 11, 1806
...lso procured a fiew and brought
with him. The Deer of this Coust differ from the Common Deer, fallow Deer
or Mule Deer as has beformentiond.
The Mule Deer we have...
May
9
1806
Lewis: May 9, 1806
...tall and open growth of the longleafed
pine. near the watercouses the hills are steep and lofty tho are covered
with a good soil not remarkably stony and possess ...
May
19
1806
Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt — John Ordway: May 19, 1806
...iderable quantity of
white roots &C. which the natives call couse1 and a little Shap-
palell &C.
May
21
1806
Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt — John Ordway: May 21, 1806
...entified by Cones (111. 1000) as "the well
known Peucedanum Cous."
1806] SERGEANT ORDWAY'S JOURNAL 359
May
23
1806
Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt — John Ordway: May 23, 1806
...we were camped at
Some time past and bought considerable of couse & Shappalell &C.
Some of the natives caught 3 Salmon to day.
May
26
1806
Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt — John Ordway: May 26, 1806
... any hunting but purchased consid-
erable of Shappalell and couse roots &C.
