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The ORIGINAL JOURNALS OF
LEWIS AND CLARK
FROM RIVER DUBOIS TO THE PLATTE
Clark's Journal and Orders, January 30-July 22, 1804
Entries and Orders by Lewis, February to, March 3, May 15, 20, 26, and July 8, 12
[PRELIMINARY MEMORANDA]
[Clark]
CAPTS LEWIS & CLARK wintered at the enterance of a Small river opposit the Mouth of Missouri Called Wood River[1], where they formed their party, Composed of robust helthy hardy young men, recomended [Sentence unfinished.- ED.].[2]
[The following memoranda of events in the history of the expedition prior to its departure from River Dubois, May 14, 1804, are selected from a record, mainly of natural phenomena, kept by Clark, which is written near the end of Codex C;
- ↑ Local traditions here place the mouth of the Missouri River in 1803 at one mile north of Maple Island; it is now four miles below the island. The mouth of Wood River is one mile below Maple Island, and is supposed to have been in the same place in 1803. -- G. B. DORSEY, Gillespie, Ill.
- ↑ This unfinished memorandum is found on the fly-leaf at beginning of the small note-book designated by Elliott Coues-in his report upon the journals, made to the American Philosophical Society, Jan. 20, 1893, and reprinted in our Appendix, post -as Codex A," from which book is here reproduced Clark's journal of the expedition from May 1 to August 14, 1904. Occasional entries, written by Lewis during that period, will be here designated by his name within brackets at the beginning of such matter. As stated in the Introduction to the present volume, there are two collections of original journals of the explorers-that made by Thomas Jefferson and now in the custody of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia; and that owned by
