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
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