LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION 200 YEARS AGO TODAY 10/23/1804

"The Corps of Discovery passes by an abandoned Mandan hunting camp. The Corps travels 13 miles before camping near today's Sanger, North Dakota."

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LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 200 YEARS AGO TODAY 10/22/1804

"Sleeping on snow covered ground, Clark awakes in the wee hours with a muscle spasm in his neck, so severe that he can not move. Lewis serving as doctor, wraps a hot rock in flannel to soothe Clark's neck. The pain continues during the day. The boats move 12 miles upstream. A Teton war party passes on land, heading toward Mandan country."

LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION 200 YEARS AGO TODAY 10/21/04

"Wildlife abounds. Clark kills three deer, himself. The hunting party kills ten and attempts to kill their first grizzly bear. Wounded, it charges the shooter, Cruzatte, who has to run away and return later for his weapon".

LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION 200 YEARS AGO TODAY 10/20/1804
Brief capsule entries from the Corps of Discovery Journals

"After a very cold night, rain turns to snow at sunrise and continues all day: They pass the mouth of Heart River, where the Medicine Rock (in today's Medicine Rock State Historic Site south of Elgin) foretells the future by developing white marks, symbols of what is to be. Clark sees a tree used for the sun dance, a ceremony sacred to many Plains Indian tribes, and misunderstands that devotion is being paid to the tree itself."