Mountain Lion

Jul 22 1804

Clark: July 22, 1804

...Small river on the L. S. at 3 miles above Plate Called Papillion or Butterfly Creek a Sand bar & an Willow Island opposit a Creek 9 ms. above the Plate on the S. ...

Jul 25 1804

Clark: July 25, 1804

...feiw Trees excepted on the watercoursesthey Cross the papillion or the Butterfly Creek within a feiw miles of Camp and near the Village a handsm. river of 100 yar...

Aug 2 1804

Clark: August 2, 1804

...gave them Some Tobacco & Provisions, they Sent us Water Millions Three verry large & fat Bucks Killed to day the wind Continue hard from the S. E.- the 4 qtr. of...

May 16 1805

Lewis: May 16, 1805

...de. in the early part of the day two of our men fired on a panther, a little below our encampment, and wounded it; they informed us that it was very large, had just ...

Aug 3 1805

Lewis: August 3, 1805

...ard. at the entrance of which Reubin Fields killed a large Panther. we called the creek after that animal Panther Creek. they also passed a handsome little stream on...

Aug 6 1805

Clark: August 6, 1805

... Three Skins which was left on a tree was taken off by the Panthers or wolvers. In decending to the Point one Canoe Struck & turned on a rapid & Sunk, and wet every...

Aug 6 1805

Lewis: August 6, 1805

...a tree were taken off which we supposed had been done by a panther. we sent out some men to hunt this evening, they killed 3 deer and four Elk which gave us a plenti...

Aug 13 1805

Lewis: August 13, 1805

...e others. I now painted their tawny cheeks with some vermillion which with this nation is emblematic of peace. after they had become composed I informed them by s...

Aug 14 1805

Lewis: August 14, 1805

...ado, and that the rout he had pointed out was to the Vermillion Sea or gulph of Callifornia. I therefore told him that this rout was more to the South than I wis...

Feb 15 1806

Clark: February 15, 1806

...he Small wolf of the Plains, the large wolf of the Plains, Panther, the tiger cat, the common red fox, the black fox or fisher, the Silver fox, large red fox of the ...

Feb 15 1806

Lewis: February 15, 1806

...uirrel, ground squirrel, sewelel, Braro, rat, mouse, mole, Panther, hare, rabbit, and polecat or skunk. all of which shall be severally noticed in the order in which...

Feb 26 1806

Clark: February 26, 1806

...bourhood are the Same as those native animals with us. The Panther is found indifferently either in the great Plains of Columbia the Western Side of the Rocky Mounta...

Feb 27 1806

Lewis: February 27, 1806

...hbourhood are the same as those native animals with us. The Panther is found indifferently either in the Great Plains of Columbia, the Western side of the rocky moun...

Mar 2 1806

Clark: March 2, 1806

... exceeds the under chap. they have a narrow Strip of vermillion colour above each eye which consists of a fleshey Substance not protuberant but uneaven, with a nu...

Mar 3 1806

Clark: March 3, 1806

...xamined of a yellow or orrange colour in Sted of the vermillion of the others. it's colour is of a uniform mixture of dark and yellowish brown with a Slight mixtu...