Needle and thread grass

May 21 1806

Clark: May 21, 1806

... we have a small half circular place made and Covered with grass which makes a very Secure Shelter for us to Sleep under. We devided our Store of merchindize among...

Jul 7 1806

Lewis: July 7, 1806

...many dams. bottoms not wide and covered with low willow and grass. halted to dine at a large beaver dam the hunters killed 3 deer and a fawn. deer are remarkably p...

Jul 10 1806

Clark: July 10, 1806

...d and this morning everything was white with frost and the grass Stiff frozend. I had Some water exposed in a bason in which the ice was 3/4 of an inch thick this ...

Jul 11 1806

Lewis: July 11, 1806

.... the morning was fair and the plains looked beatifull the grass much improved by the late rain. the air was pleasant and a vast assemblage of little birds which c...

Jul 12 1806

Lewis: July 12, 1806

...eason has been much more moist than the preceeding one. the grass and weeds are much more luxouriant than they were when I left this place on the 13th of July 1805...

Jul 13 1806

Clark: July 13, 1806

...adisens rivers is a butifull leavel plain Covered with low grass.on the lower or N E. Side of Gallitins river the Country rises gradually to the foot of a mountain...

Jul 15 1806

Clark: July 15, 1806

...is coars gravel pebils & Sand with Some earth on which the grass grow very Short and at this time is quit dry this 2d bottom over flows in high floods on the oppos...

Jul 15 1806

Lewis: July 15, 1806

...m within a quarter of a mile of that place. every spire of grass was eaten up by their horses near their camp which had the appearance of their having remained her...

Jul 16 1806

Clark: July 16, 1806

...llent grit for Grindstones hard and sharp. observe the Silkgrass Sunflower & Wild indigo all in blume. but fiew other flowers are to be Seen in those plains. The ...

Jul 17 1806

Lewis: July 17, 1806

...t state, it is as soft and slipry as so much soft soap the grass is naturally but short and at present has been rendered much more so by the graizing of the buffal...

Jul 18 1806

Clark: July 18, 1806

...er bands to be on their guard. I halted in a bottom of fine grass to let the horses graze. Shields killed a fat Buck on which we all Dined. after dinner and a delay...

Jul 19 1806

Clark: July 19, 1806

...low. It may be proper to observe that the emence Sworms of Grass hoppers have distroyed every Sprig of Grass for maney miles on this Side of the river, and appear...

Jul 20 1806

Lewis: July 20, 1806

...nd river bottoms, the latter is now in full blume; the silkgrass and sand rush are also common to the bottom lands. the musquetoes have not been troublesome to us ...

Jul 22 1806

Clark: July 22, 1806

...s grounded on the improbibility of the horses leaveing the grass and rushes of the river bottoms of which they are very fond, and takeing imediately out into the ...

Jul 23 1806

Clark: July 23, 1806

... on my return Children The people in my country is like the grass in your plains noumerous they are also rich and bountifull. and love their read brethren who inha...