The Journal of Patrick Gass of Lewis & Clark Expedition-- Part 3

AUGUST 25, 1804

"Two of our men  last night caught nine catfish, that would together weigh three hundred pounds. ...Captain Lewis and Captain Clarke went to see a hill on the north side of the river where the natives will not or pretend that they will not venture to go, and say that a small people live there, whom they are afraid of. ... Captains Lewis and Clarke did not return  this evening.

AUGUST 26, 1804

About 10 o'clock Captain Lewis and Captain Clarke with the party accompanying them came to camp;  but had not been able to discover any of those small people.  The hill is in a handsome prairie; and the party saw a great many buffaloe near it."

--Brock-Perry

The Journal of Patrick Glass-- Part 2: Death of Floyd and Plenty of Food

AUGUST 20, 1804

Continuing with the death of Sergeant Floyd, the only man to die during the entire Lewis & Clark Expedition.  The service and burial of Sgt. Floyd.

"We went on about a mile to high prairie hills on the north side of the river, and there interred his remains in the most decent manner our circumstances would admit; we then proceeded  a mile further to a small river on the same side and encamped.

"Our commanding officer have it the name  of Floyd's river; to perpetuate the memory of the first man who had fallen in this important expedition."

Of course, this is when Patrick Gass became the next sergeant of the expedition.

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AUGUST 23, 1804

"Captain Clarke and one of the men killed a deer and a buffaloe, and some of the men were sent to dress and bring the buffaloe to the boat.  We stopped at a prairie on the north side, the largest and handsomest, which I have seen.  Captain Clarke called it Buffaloe prairie.  ...we salted two barrels of buffaloe meat."

--Brock-Perry