The enlisted men are anxious to get home, and they paddle hard down the swift Missouri River crowded with snags. They leave present Iowa and enter Missouri, and after 73 miles, they return to the “bald pated” prairie of 16 July 1804. Lewis appears to have fully recovered from his gunshot wound.
Return to “Bald Pated” Prairie
below the R. Platt [Platte River] the Current of the Missouri becomes evidently more rapid than above and the Snags much more noumerous and bad to pass late in the evening we arived at the Bald pated prarie and encamped imediately opposit our encampment of the 16th and 17th of July 1804. haveing made 73 miles only to day.
—William Clark
Anxious for Home
our party appears extreamly anxious to get on, and every day appears produce new anxieties in them to get to their Country and friends.
—William Clark
Lewis Recovers
My worthy friend Cap Lewis has entirely recovered his wounds are heeled up and he Can walk and even run nearly as well as ever he Could. the parts are yet tender &c. &.
—William Clark
Sultry Weather
The Musquetors are yet troublesom, tho’ not So much So as they were above the River platt. the Climate is every day preceptably wormer and air more Sultery than I have experienced for a long time.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
State of the weather at Sun rise Course of the wind at Sun rise State of the weather at 4 oClock Course of wind at 4 P. M fair S E fair S E —William Clark[1]To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is not presented and some abbreviations have been spelled out.
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Notes
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