Western paper birch

Sep 16 1804

Clark: September 16, 1804

...ts width, they Saw & well as my Self Pine burs & Sticks of Birch in the Drift wood up this river, They Saw also Number of Goats Such as I Killed, also wolves near ...

May 20 1805

Missouri River near Musselshell River — John Ordway: May 20, 1805

...eek, for one of the members of the expedition. It is modern Birch Creek, in eastern Chouteau County. - Named Bull Creek by (lie explorers, but now known as Dog Creek...

Aug 2 1805

Jefferson River ascending toward divide — John Ordway: August 2, 1805

... passed a nomber of Islands, and bottoms covd with cotton & birch timber, passed Smooth prarie. Saw Several grey Eagles &C. we Came 14f miles to day and Camped on th...

Aug 3 1805

Jefferson River ascending toward divide — Joseph Whitehouse: August 3, 1805

...plains and bot- toms, Some of which is covred with cotton & birch timber the River Still getting more rapid and the rapids longer than below. Came 11% miles this day...

Aug 7 1805

Clark: August 7, 1805

...taining but little timber, Some few Cotton willow Willow & Birch, and the Srubs common to the countrey and before mentioned at 5 oClock a thunder Storm from the N....

Aug 8 1805

Clark: August 8, 1805

...s and maney gravelly Sholes, no large timber, Small willow Birch & Srubs &c. Encamped on the Lard Side, R Fields joined us this eveng. & informes that he could not...

Aug 11 1805

Jefferson/Beaverhead River near present-day Dillon — John Ordway: August 11, 1805

... Shores but no other but cotton & willow [and] a fiew Small birch, the valley continues 8 or 10 miles wide & all Smooth low prarie without timber, we saw high Mounta...

Oct 29 1805

Cascades of the Columbia, portage — Patrick Gass: October 29, 1805

...ides of the river, on which there was pine timber; and some birch on the banks of the river. At breakfast time we stopt at a small village of the natives and purchas...

Apr 30 1806

Clark: April 30, 1806

... is Some timber on this Creek. it consists of Cotton wood, birch, the Crimson haw, red willow, Sweet willow, Choke Cherry, yellow Current, goose berry, white berr...

Apr 30 1806

Lewis: April 30, 1806

...n on the Columbia river itself. it consists of Cottonwood, birch, the crimson haw, redwillow, sweetwillow, chokecherry yellow currants, goosberry, whiteberryed ho...

May 1 1806

Clark: May 1, 1806

...otton trees, willow, red willow, choke Cherry, white thorn, birch, elder, ____ rose & honey suckle. Great portion of these bottoms has been latterly burnt which ha...

May 1 1806

Nez Perce camps, reuniting with horses — Patrick Gass: May 1, 1806

...fine stream about twenty yards wide, with some cotton-wood, birch and willows on its banks. One of four hunters, who went forward very early this morning, returned a...

Jul 3 1806

Clark: July 3, 1806

...lly timberd with long leaf & pitch pine, Some cotton wood, Birch, and Sweet willow on the borders of the Streams. I observed 2 Species of Clover in this vally one ...

Sep 18 1806

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

...on with explor- ing party, 276 Bighorns, see Mountain sheep Birch, 166, 222 Blackbird, king of Mahas, 19 Black-bird creek, 7 Blackbirds, 104 Blue-water creek, 10 Blu...