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St. Louis Missouri, the starting point for the Corps of Discovery
On this date, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark along with 45 men left St. Louis on a keel boat and two other small boats to search out the Unknown American territory, that Thomas Jefferson bought a year ago from France in the Louisiana Purchase -
The only causality
Sargent Charles Floyd died near present South Sioux city, because of a ruptured appendix, the captains did everything for him but their medicines were very little help to him, the surgery that would have saved him wasn't invented yet, so he passed away and he was the only one in the group to have died. -
Encounters with the Sioux Tribe
The Sioux Indians were known to be aggressive and were very hard to impress, when Lewis and Clark first met them they showed them their gun skills and uniform dances but that didn't impress them. The Indians thought that they were trying to take over their trade route, tensions rised and they almost got into two fights until finally the Corps of Discovery left upriver to continue their journey -
Trading with the Mandan Indians
When Lewis and Clark stayed at Fort Mandan, the Indians gave them food during the winter, and for return the Corps of Discovery gave them trade goods. -
Winter at Fort Mandan
At this fort Lewis and Clark stayed here for four months, where they traded with neighboring Indians, repaired their equipment and hunted for wild buffalo. They met a fur trapper and interpreter named Toussaint Charbonneau and his pregnant Indian wife Sacagawea and then later she gave birth to a son named Jean Baptiste, on April 06, 1805 they would travel with them on their journey to the Pacific Ocean. -
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Weather at Fort Mandan
When Lewis and Clark was at Fort Mandan, the weather there was like zero degree temperatures and even lower. Hunting became difficult and their ink would be frozen and to write in their journals became hard and frustrating and building their quarters was struggling too. But Lewis and Clark were both amazed on how the Mandan and Hidatsu Indians survived through this and how the earth houses kept them warm, and even when the weather was bad the time spent with them was unforgettable. -
Sacagaweas Baby Boy
At Fort Mandan, Sacagawea gave birth to a son they named him Jean Baptiste, Lewis recorded the birth in his journal, he was concerned about her so he claimed to have helped her by mixing water with crushed rattle snake rings and then moments later Jean Baptiste was born. -
The First Grizzly Bear
When Clark saw a Grizzly on a beach, he and one other man went to go kill it, he described it as huge and terrible looking bear, after shooting ten times it finally was killed, and when Clark got a better look at it he claimed that it was the biggest animal he has ever seen. -
A very sick member
On this date, by the Missouri river, Sacagawea was very sick for 7 days, she had a low pulse, a high temperature, trouble breathing, and no control of her hands and arms. William Clark bled her for a while but her sickness grew more worse. Lewis gave her water with sulfur and iron and gave her doses of tree bark and opium, and thankfully she survived. -
Meeting the Shoshone Tribe
Lewis went ahead with a few men, and saw an Indian on horseback he called out to him and told him that he was a stranger, Lewis realized that he was a Shoshone Indian and after convincing that they were no harm they met the Indian chief Cameahwait who turned out to be Sacagaweas brother, when Clark made it to the tribe they traded a lot of things in order to get some horses but with some information on how to cross the mountains they were going to make it. -
The Nez Perce Indians
When Lewis and Clark had to continue their journey through river the left their horses with the Nez Perce and when they saw the travelers struggling trying to make the canoes out of tools, they showed them how to burn the log and to use that for a canoe. In May of 1806 they came back and saw that their horses were taken care of and were in good health and they even stayed with them for a while until the snow melted. -
Winter at Fort Clatsop
Lewis and Clark made camp south of the Columbia river and built Fort Clatsop they named it after the Clatsop Indians that lived near by, their time at fort was very boring, it rained all the time, they spent their time making clothing from animal skins, writing on their maps and journals and storing food, and their meals was thin elk meat and roots. -
Beargrass
Lewis described this Beargrass, that it grew all over these mountains, he also said that it grew through out winter, and the horses were not interested in eating it. He and the group have seen Beargrass in Autumn when they were crossing the Bitterroot mountains, but now they were seeing it in full bloom. -
A terrible day
Captain Lewis met eight Blackfoot Indians, while they were talking he gave them a medal flag and a handkerchief and they got along, feeling there was no threat he took them to their camp. The next day the Indians were trying to steal their horses and guns, telling them to stop or he will fire, Lewis shot one of the Indians and was able to get their horses back, when they escaped Lewis found out that one of his men stabbed a Blackfoot and they quickly left to avoid more Indians. -
An Experience in Present Day Idaho
An amazing experience, that happened to me was that me and my brother and some friends we went on a trail and while we were hiking, thousands and thousands of lady bugs surrounded us and it was beautiful.
