On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
Sgt. Pryor leads a party of five to bring the sick Gibson back to Fort Clatsop. Sgt. Gass and 2 hunters spend a wet night outdoors. The Captains write about berries: Oregon grape, Pacific blackberry, and the Evergreen huckleberry.
From the journals...
Tuesday February 11th 1806.
sent Sergt Pryor with a party of four men to bring Gibson to the fort.
also sent Colter and Wiser to the Salt works to carry on the business with Joseph Fields
Tillamook Head viewed from the Salt Works
Tuesday February 11th 1806.
There is a shrub…which grows near the water in somewhat moist grounds....and is covered with a number of short hooked thorns which renders it extreemly disagreeable to pass among
Pacific blackberry, Rubus ursinus subsp. Macropetalus
