Mountain Goat

Jun 30 1805

Lewis: June 30, 1805

...ewyer killed two today. There are a number of large bat or goatsucker here I killed one of them and found that there was no difference between them and those comm...

Jul 21 1805

Clark: July 21, 1805

...of the Common kind Small birds are plenty, Some Deer, Elk, Goats, and Ibex; no buffalow in the Mountains. Those mountains are high and a great perportion of them r...

Jul 24 1805

Lewis: July 24, 1805

...ind the river crouded. we killed one deer today and found a goat or Antelope which had been left by Capt. Clark. we saw a large bear but could not get a shoot at ...

Aug 1 1805

Lewis: August 1, 1805

...being very scarce and shy. we had seen a few deer and some goats but had not been fortunate enough to kill any of them. after dinner we resumed our march and enca...

Aug 2 1805

Lewis: August 2, 1805

...of a deep purple. this day we saw an abundance of deer and goats or antelopes and a great number of the tracks of Elk; of the former we killed two. we continued o...

Aug 21 1805

Clark: August 21, 1805

August 21st Wednesday 1805 Frost last night proceeded on with the Indians I met about 5 miles to there Camp, I entered a lodge and...

Aug 23 1805

Lewis: August 23, 1805

...l came in about 1 P.M. having killed 2 mule deer and three goats. this mule buck was the largest deer of any kind I had ever seen. it was nearly as large as a doe...

Aug 24 1805

Lewis: August 24, 1805

Saturday August 24th 1805. As the Indians who were on their way down the Missouri had a number of spare hoses with them I thought...

Sep 5 1805

Clark: September 5, 1805

... eate and the Principal Chief a Dressed Brarow, otter & two Goat & antilope Skins Those people wore their hair the men Cewed with otter Skin on each Side falling ...

Oct 10 1805

Clark: October 10, 1805

... about their necks. The women dress in a Shirt of Ibex, or Goat Skins which reach quite down to their anckles with a girdle, their heads are not ornemented, their...

Oct 17 1805

Clark: October 17, 1805

... a flap over them 22 Fishing houses of Mats robes of Deer, Goat & Beaver. --- October 17th Thursday 1805 A fair morning made the above observations during which t...

Oct 20 1805

Clark: October 20, 1805

...men have a Short indiferent Shirt, a Short robe of Deer or Goat Skins, & a Small Skin which they fastend. tite around their bodies & fastend. between the legs to...

Oct 21 1805

Clark: October 21, 1805

...ress of the men of this tribe only a Short robe of Deer or Goat Skins, and that of the womn is a Short piece of Dressed Skin which fall from the neck So as to Cov...

Oct 29 1805

Clark: October 29, 1805

...op of the neck and back Something resembling bristles of a goat, the skin was of white hare, those animals these people inform me by Signs live in the mountains a...

Apr 16 1806

Clark: April 16, 1806

... The Inhabitents of this Village ware the robe of deer Elk Goat &c. and most of the men ware Legins and mockersons and Shirts highly ornimented with Porcupine qui...