Columbian ground squirrel

Sep 11 1803

Seaman Catches Squirrels Swimming Across the Ohio

...down the Ohio River, they encountered large numbers of gray squirrels swimming across the river—a mass migration phenomenon well documented in the early American ...

Aug 2 1805

Lewis: August 2, 1805

...e course of the day they passed some villages of burrowing squirrels, saw a number of beaver dams and the inhabitants of them, many young ducks both of the Duckanmal...

Aug 23 1805

Lewis: August 23, 1805

...is difficult part of the river larger than a pheasant or a squirrel and they not abundant; add to this that our stock of provision is now so low that it would not su...

Sep 18 1805

Lewis: September 18, 1805

...arth exept ourselves and a few small pheasants, small grey Squirrels, and a blue bird of the vulter kind about the size of a turtle dove or jay bird. our rout lay al...

Oct 26 1805

Clark: October 26, 1805

...ent dancedour hunters killed five Deer, 4 verry large gray Squirrels, a goose & Pheasent, one man giged a Salmon trout which we had fried in a little Bears oil which...

Dec 1 1805

Lewis: December 1, 1805

...y had seen the track of one deer only and a few small grey squirrels. these suirrels are about the size of the red squirrel of the lakes and eastern Atlantic States, ...

Jan 15 1806

Lewis: January 15, 1806

...r Cat and those also of a small animal about the size of a squirrel not known to me; these skins I procured from the Indians who had previously dressed them and forme...

Feb 15 1806

Clark: February 15, 1806

...er, minks, Seals racoons, large Grey Squerrel, Small brown Squirrel, Small grey Squirrel, Ground Squirrel, Sewelel, Braro, rat, mouse, mole, hare, rabbet, and pole C...

Feb 15 1806

Lewis: February 15, 1806

...on otter, sea Otter, mink, spuck, seal, racoon, large grey squirrel, small brown squirrel, small grey squirrel, ground squirrel, sewelel, Braro, rat, mouse, mole, Pan...

Feb 21 1806

Lewis: February 21, 1806

...eat agility, and bound from tree to tree in pursuit of the squirrel or Rackoon their natural and most usual food. their colour is a jut black except a small spot of ...

Feb 25 1806

Lewis: February 25, 1806

...uch, and but seldom prepare them for robes. The large grey squirrel appears to be a native of a narrow tract of country on the upper side of the mountains just below ...

Feb 26 1806

Lewis: February 26, 1806

...ort and flat. that he saw one of them run up a tree like a squirrel and that it returned and ran into a hole in the ground. the ears are short thin pointed and covere...

Apr 16 1806

Lewis: April 16, 1806

... had never before seen. they are a size less than the grey squirrel common to the middle atlantic states and of a pided grey and yellowish brown colour, in form it re...

Apr 20 1806

Lewis: April 20, 1806

...ve. their children frequently wear robes of the large grey squirrel skins, those of the men and women are principally deer skins, some wolf, elk, bighorn and buffaloe...

May 14 1806

Lewis: May 14, 1806

... killed. Shannon also returned with a few pheasants and two squirrells. we have found our stone horses so troublesome that we indeavoured to exchange them with the Ch...