Wildlife
Red-spotted garter snake
Thamnophis sirtalis concinnus
Habitat
Deer Island, above Cowlitz River
Conservation
Secure
One of 12 subspecies of common garter snake. Lewis described well one found on Deer Island in the Columbia River.
Journal References
15 journal entries mention Red-spotted garter snake
Oct
16
1805
Confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers
The expedition reached the confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers near present-day Pasco, Washington. They were now on the great "River of the We...
May
5
1806
Clark: May 5, 1806
...ut nose from the circumstance of his nose
being Cut by the Snake Indians with a launce in battle. to this man we
gave a Medal of the Small Size with a likeness of ...
May
5
1806
Lewis: May 5, 1806
...ut nose from the circumstance of
his nose being cut by the snake indians with a launce in battle. to this
man we gave a medal of the small size with the likeness o...
May
6
1806
Clark: May 6, 1806
...nnahhiooks which is also the name they Call
those bands of Snake indians who Come on this river every Spring to Catch
the Salmon-. The Kooskooske river may be Safe...
May
8
1806
Clark: May 8, 1806
... eate every part of them
even the Skins with the hair. The Snake Indian was much displeased that he
was not furnished with as much Deer as he could eate. he refuse...
May
11
1806
Clark: May 11, 1806
... medal of the Small Size and Spoke to the Indians through a Snake boy
Shabono and his wife. we informed them who we were, where we Came from
& our intentions towar...
May
11
1806
Lewis: May 11, 1806
... a coal on a mat in their way and by the assistance of
the snake boy and our interpretters were enabled to make ourselves
understood by them altho it had to pass t...
May
16
1806
Clark: May 16, 1806
...ck wood pecker with a red breast as discribed hereafter.
A snake which resembles the rattle Snake in colour and Spots on the Skin,
longer and inosent. at 5 P M Dre...
May
16
1806
Lewis: May 16, 1806
...a hunting excurtion did not return this evening.I
killed a snake near our camp, it is 3 feet 11 Inches in length, is much
the colour of the rattlesnake common to t...
May
18
1806
Clark: May 18, 1806
...ed her Self
gathering the roots of the fenel Called by the Snake Indians Year-pah for
the purpose of drying to eate on the Rocky mountains. those roots are very
p...
May
22
1806
Clark: May 22, 1806
... to the opposit bank and inform those on this Side that the Snake
Indians had come to a Lodge on Lewis's river at night. the inhabitents
previously discovering the...
May
24
1806
Lewis: May 24, 1806
...eilds says that he had
previously seen the tea of Sinnecca snake root used in stead of the mint
which was now employed for the want of the other which is not be fo...
May
30
1806
Clark: May 30, 1806
...ptiles which I have observed in this quarter are the Rattle Snake of the
Species discribed on the Missouri, they are abundant in every part of the
Country and are ...
May
30
1806
Lewis: May 30, 1806
...ptiles which I have observed
in this quarter are the Rattlesnake of the speceis discribed on the
Missouri, they are abundant in every part of the country and are t...
Jul
8
1806
Clark: July 8, 1806
...teared S. 20° E. to the West branch of Jeffersons river in Snake
Indian cove about 7 miles and halded two hours to let the horses graize.
after dinner we proceede...
