Western Red Cedar

Jun 7 1804

Missouri River near Osage River — John Ordway: June 7, 1804

...lifts of Rocks, about 2 miles further we Come to a 1 Modern Cedar Creek, which empties into the Missouri from the north side opposite Jefferson City. 2 Clark calls t...

Jul 10 1804

Missouri River near St. Joseph area — John Ordway: July 10, 1804

...s gun out of the boat. Coues identities the stream as modem Cedar Creek in Doniphan County. 1804] SERGEANT ORDWAY'S JOURNAL 95 Island called De Silamen1 and Delayed ...

Aug 22 1804

Missouri River near Vermillion area — Patrick Gass: August 22, 1804

... nine or ten miles runs close to the river, where there are cedar bluffs of various colours. We encamped on the north side.

Aug 24 1804

Missouri River near Vermillion area — Patrick Gass: August 24, 1804

Captain Clarke went by land. We passed cedar bluffs on the north side, a part of which were burning; and there are here to be found mineral subs...

Sep 4 1804

Missouri River near Niobrara River — Patrick Gass: September 4, 1804

...ed not long since. We encamped on the south side among some cedar trees.

Sep 21 1804

Missouri River near Big Bend — Patrick Gass: September 21, 1804

...and a handsome bottom on the north side; and beyond these a cedar bottom on the south side and bluffs on the north; passed a creek on the south side, called Tyler’...

Sep 22 1804

Missouri River near Big Bend — John Ordway: September 22, 1804

...undary between Lyman and Stanley counties, the first called Cedar or Dorion Island, and the second Dorion Island No. 2. The latter was the site of Loisel's fort, of ...

Sep 22 1804

Missouri River near Big Bend — Patrick Gass: September 22, 1804

...e and high plains on the north. About 3 o’clock we passed cedar island, one of the Three Sisters, where Mr. Lucelle had built a fort of cedar. The space picketed i...

May 12 1805

Missouri River Breaks area — Patrick Gass: May 12, 1805

...assed some hills on the North side, cov- ered with pine and cedar, the first timber of any kind we have seen on the hills for a long time. At 1 we halted for dinner ...

Jul 19 1805

Missouri River above Great Falls, Gates of the Mountains — Patrick Gass: July 19, 1805

of the mountains, which had a good deal of pine, spruce and cedar on them, and where there were not so many rocks; but no timber in the bottoms except some small wil...

Jul 26 1805

Three Forks of the Missouri — Patrick Gass: July 26, 1805

course through the mountains. There are some cedar and spruce trees on the shores; but very little of any kind on the mountains. About 11 o’clock we...

Sep 23 1805

Nez Perce villages on Clearwater — Patrick Gass: September 23, 1805

... calculated for making millstones ; and some beautiful tall cedars among the spruce pine. Night came on before we got off this ridge, and we had much difficulty in f...

Nov 5 1805

Columbia River tidewater, approaching estuary — Patrick Gass: November 5, 1805

...t many Indian camps, their lodges made chiefly of poles and cedar bark. At noon we stopped about an hour at an island, and some of the men went out and killed nine b...

Nov 17 1805

Exploring for winter camp site, south shore of Columbia — Patrick Gass: November 17, 1805

...ringe petticoats, made of filaments or tassels of the white cedar bark wrought with a string at the upper part, which is tied round the waist. These tassels or fring...

Nov 19 1805

Exploring for winter camp site, south shore of Columbia — Patrick Gass: November 19, 1805

...rant skins: one of them had a hat made of the bark of white cedar and bear-grass, very hand- somely wrought and water proof.—One of our party pur- chased it for an...