On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
Today is cloudy and rainy at Fort Clatsop near Astoria, Oregon. The Captains describe the root of the Edible thistle, which they find sweeter than any other fruit or root eaten by the Indians.
From the journals...
Wednesday [Tuesday] January 21st 1806.
Two of the hunters Shannon & Labuish returned having killed three Elk.
the indians left us about 12 O'Clk.
Fort Clatsop
Wednesday [Tuesday] January 21st 1806.
The root of the thistle, called by the natives shan-ne-tâh-que....is more shugury than any fuit or root that I have met with in uce among the natives; the sweet is precisely that of the sugar in flavor
Edible thistle, Cirsium edule
