On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
After a delay looking for lost horses, the men walk 12 miles through sand dunes arriving at a village on present Rock Creek. They sing and dance, and the Captains hope they can finally obtain enough horses to abandon the two canoes.
From the journals...
Wednesday 23rd 1806
The Sand through which we walked to day is So light that renders the march verry fatigueing.
Sand dunes near The Dalles
Wednesday 23rd 1806
we Caused the fiddle to be played and Some of the men danced. after them the nativs danced.
Shabono made a bargin…for a horse for Which he gave his Shirt. and two of the leather Sutes of his wife.
Rock Creek
Wednesday April 23rd 1806.
we continued our march along a narrow rocky bottom on the N. side of the river about 12 miles to the Wah-how-pum Village of 12 temperary mat lodges near the Rock rapid.
John Day area
