Black cottonwood

May 20 1805

Lewis: May 20, 1805

...o far as we have explored it or 8 m. are well stocked with Cottonwood timber of tollerable size, & lands of excellent quality. We halted at thentrance of the river on t...

May 21 1805

Lewis: May 21, 1805

...e river are short and suddon, the points covered with some cottonwood, larger willow, or broadleafed willow with an abundance of the wild rose and some small honeysuck...

May 24 1805

Lewis: May 24, 1805

...rs along the verge of the river. the folage of some of the cottonwood trees have been entirely distroyed by the frost and are again puting forth other buds. the high co...

May 27 1805

Lewis: May 27, 1805

... of tolerably level land in which two or thre impoverished cottonwood trees will be seen. great quantities of stone also lye in the river and garnish it's borders, whi...

May 30 1805

Lewis: May 30, 1805

...re is now no timber on the hills, an only a few scattering cottonwood, ash, box Alder and willows to be seen along the river. in the course of the day we passed several...

Jun 2 1805

Lewis: June 2, 1805

...we came too on the Lard. side in a handsome bottom of small cottonwood timber opposite to the entrance of a very considerable river; but it being too late to examine th...

Jul 17 1805

Lewis: July 17, 1805

... pallateable dish. there is but little of the broad leafed cottonwood above the falls, much the greater portion being of the narrow leafed kind. there are a great abund...

Jul 20 1805

Lewis: July 20, 1805

...he river and in the valley. consisting of the narrowleafed Cottonwood aspin & pine. vas numbers of the several species of currants goosberries and service berries; of ...

Jul 22 1805

Lewis: July 22, 1805

...y leafed thorn, southernwood, sage Box alder narrow leafed cottonwood, red wod, a species of sumac are all found in abundance as well as the red and black goosberries, ...

Jul 27 1805

Lewis: July 27, 1805

...it's bottoms. the timber here consists of the narrowleafed cottonwood almost entirely. but little box alder or sweet willow the underbrush thick and as heretofore discr...

Aug 1 1805

Lewis: August 1, 1805

...ber, which consists almost entirely of a few narrow leafed cottonwood trees distributed along the verge of the river. in the evening Capt. C. found the Elk I had left ...

Aug 15 1805

Lewis: August 15, 1805

...h. they encamped this evening on the Lard. side near a few cottonwood trees about which there were the remains of several old Indian brush lodges.

Aug 23 1805

Lewis: August 23, 1805

...e of well seasoned soft spongey wood such as the willow or cottonwood. the point of this arrow they apply to this dry stick so near one edge of it that the particles of...

Nov 4 1805

Clark: November 4, 1805

... Species of undergroth of which I am not acquainted, a few Cottonwood trees & the Ash of this countrey grow Scattered on the river bank, Saw Some Elk and Deer Sign and ...

Mar 25 1806

Lewis: March 25, 1806

...d which was much nearer. the bottom lands are covered with cottonwood, the growth with a broad leaf which resembles ash except the leaf. the underbrush red willow, broa...