Small-flowered collinsia; Blue-eyed Mary

Aug 27 1803

Lewis Inspects the Nearly Complete Keelboat

...ns of cargo.The keelboat would serve as the expedition's primary vessel for the ascent of the Missouri River, carrying the bulk of supplies and serving as the float...

Jun 26 1804

Arrival at the Mouth of the Kansas River

... river, as mapping waterways was one of the expedition's primary objectives. "The Mouth of the river Kanzas is 230 yds Wide. We Camped at the point. This river is ...

Jul 22 1804

Lewis: July 22, 1804

July 22nd 1804. A summary discription of the apparatus employed in the following observations; containing also some remarks ...

Aug 5 1804

Clark: August 5, 1804

...ter passes thro this Peninsulia; and agreeable to the Customary Changes of the river I Concld. that in two years the main Current of the river will pass through....

Oct 25 1804

Clark: October 25, 1804

...fingers off-; on inqureing the Cause, was told it was Customary for this nation to Show their greaf by Some testimony of pain, and that it was not uncommon for th...

Nov 4 1804

Toussaint Charbonneau Hired — Sacagawea Joins the Expedition

... himself to the captains as a potential interpreter. His primary value to the expedition, however, would be his young Shoshone wife, Sacagawea. "A Mr. Chaubonee in...

Apr 20 1805

Lewis: April 20, 1805

...transporting her corps to the place of deposit. it is customary with the Assinniboins, Mandans, Minetares &c who scaffold their dead, to sacrefice the favorite h...

Aug 18 1805

Lewis: August 18, 1805

...y exertions and at least indeavour to promote those two primary objects of human existence, by giving them the aid of that portion of talents which nature and fo...

Aug 23 1805

Lewis: August 23, 1805

...familes had a large stock and others none. this is not customary among the nations of Indians with whom I have hitherto been acquainted I asked Cameahwait the rea...

Aug 24 1805

Lewis: August 24, 1805

... as all the Indians of America, bravery is esteemed the primary virtue; nor can any one become eminent among them who has not at some period of his life given pro...

Nov 7 1805

"Ocean in View! O! the Joy!"

...s of travel, the Corps of Discovery had accomplished the primary goal of the expedition — reaching the Pacific coast by an overland route. The moment was tempered...

Mar 24 1806

Clark: March 24, 1806

... the dead at a Short distance below, in the usial and Customary way of the nativs of this Coast in Canoes raised from the ground as before described. Soon after w...

Jun 10 1806

Clark: June 10, 1806

...t load on a 2d horse, besides which we have several supernumary horses in case of accident or the want of provisions, we therefore feel ourselves perfectly equipe...

Jun 10 1806

Lewis: June 10, 1806

...load on a second horse, beside which we have several supenemary horses in case of accedent or the want of provision, we therefore feel ourselves perfectly equiped...

Jun 13 1806

Lewis: June 13, 1806

...if fearfull that we would cansel the bargain which is customary among themselves and deemed only fair. we directed the meat to be cut thin and exposed to dry in t...