Grizzly Bear

Apr 29 1805

Ordway Records the First Encounter with Grizzly Bears

The expedition's first encounters with grizzly bears were genuinely terrifying experiences for men accustomed to the smaller black bears of the East. O...

Jun 22 1805

Gass Describes the Great Falls Portage

...us — made every step miserable. Hailstorms battered them, grizzly bears menaced them, and the heat was oppressive. The portage took from June 16 to July 15, nearly a full...

Aug 14 1805

Lewis: August 14, 1805

...oles, and said inhabited those mountains and lived like the bear of other countries among the rocks and fed on roots or the flesh of such horses as they could tak...

Mar 6 1806

Clark: March 6, 1806

...ll we reached tidewater, where they also abound but do not bear a Similar proportion to the fowls found in this quarter. we found this bird fat and tolerably flav...

Mar 7 1806

Lewis: March 7, 1806

...till we reached tidewater where they also abound but do not bear a similar proportion to the other fowls found in this quarter. There are two speceis of loons. 1st...

Mar 8 1806

Clark: March 8, 1806

...qual length as those of the geese and brown brant are, and bears about the Same perpotion in point of length. the Eye is of a dark colour and nothing remarkable a...

Mar 8 1806

Lewis: March 8, 1806

...equal length as those of the geese and brown brant are and bears about the same proportion in point of length. the eye is of a dark colour and nothing remarkable...

Mar 10 1806

Clark: March 10, 1806

...ering to a Sharp point. the upper chap Somewhat longest and bears on its base at the joining of the head, a little conic protuberance of a cartelagenous Substance...

Mar 10 1806

Lewis: March 10, 1806

...ring to a sharp point. the upper chap somewhat longest, and bears on it's base at the joining of the head, a little conic protuberance of a cartelagenous substace...

Mar 16 1806

Clark: March 16, 1806

... of which forms the extreem End and is convex and Globelar bearing on its center Some Short broad and irregular fibers. the Substance is about the consistancy of ...

Mar 19 1806

Lewis: March 19, 1806

...ar excursions, others of the skins of the deer panther and bear and a blanket wove with the fingers of the wool of the native sheep. a mat is sometimes temperari...

Apr 16 1806

Lewis: April 16, 1806

...hat they saw some Antelopes, & the tracks of several black bear, but no appearance of any Elk. we were informed by the Indians that the river which falls in on th...

May 16 1806

Lewis: May 16, 1806

...ected to fine a canoe, we gave them the head and neck of a bear, a part of which they eat and took the ballance with them. these people sometimes kill the variaga...

May 28 1806

Lewis: May 28, 1806

...re very abundant they informed us, but there were not many bear. The sick Cheif was much better this morning he can use his hands and arms and seems much pleased ...

May 31 1806

Lewis: May 31, 1806

...he evening. Willard brought with him the dressed skin of a bear which he had purchased for Capt. C. this skin was an uniform pale redish brown colour, the indians...