Botanicals from the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Bitterroot

Journal notes from around the time of collection:

July 7, 1806

This ...we arrived at a Boiling Spring Situated about 100 paces from a large Easterly fork of the small river...contains a very considerable quantity of water, and actually blubbers with heat for about 20 paces below where it rises.  It has every appearance of boiling, too hot for a man to endure his hand in it 3 seconds...This extensive vally surround(ed) with (mountains) covered with snow is extremely fertile...I now take my leave of this butiful extensive vally which I call the hot spring Vally...

William Clark

image size: 3"x5"           unframed price: $54
frame size: 8"x10"          framed price: $90

Hand colored etching by Barbara Coppock