On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
The day is windy causing the Expedition to make only forty miles on its return trip down the Missouri River. Lewis' exit wound closes over, and the hunters supply three elk and one deer. Camp is west of present Forest City, South Dakota.
From the journals...
Saturday 23rd August 1806
at dark we landed on a Small Sand bar under a Bluff on the S W. Side and encamped, this Situation was one which I had Chosen to avoid the Musquetors, they were not very troublesome after we landed.
Missouri River
Saturday 23rd August 1806
I observe great quantities of Grapes and Choke Cheries, also a Speces of Currunt which I had never before observed the Currt. black and very inferior to either the yellow, red, or perple—
Wild blackcurrant, Ribes americanum
