On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
The Expedition suffers as they climb over the divide between the Salmon and Bitterroot rivers. The day is cloudy with rain, sleet, and snow. At times they have to cut a road through the brush. They camp near the top cold, wet, and hungry.
From the journals...
Tuesday 3rd Sept. 1805.
We lay down and Slept, wet hungry and cold.
September 3rd Tuesday 1805
This day we passed over emence hils and Some of the worst roade that ever horses passed
Lost Trail Pass
Tuesday 3rd Sept. 1805.
we Camped after a dissagreeable days march of only 11 miles with much fatigue and hunger as nothing has been killed this day only 2 or 3 fessents, and have no meat of any kind.
Female blue grouse, Dendragapus obscurus
Angelica within the Rocky mountains in moist places Jun: 25th 1806? The flowering one taken in Septb 3d 1805.
Angelica, Angelica sp.
