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Equipped with horses from the Shoshone, the corps prepares to cross the Bitterroot Mountains in present-day Idaho. But winter is fast approaching and there is little to eat.
September 4, 1805 [Capt. William Clark]
A verry cold morning every thing wet and frosed.... group covered with Snow.... we met a part of the [Salish] nation of 33 Lodges about 80 men 400 Total and at least 500 horses, those people recved us friendly, threw white robes over our Sholders & Smoked in the pipes of...
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