Botanicals from the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Camas

Journal notes from around the time of collection:

June 23, 1806

This ...in the event of their not being able to detain the Indians, the Sergt. Gass, R & J. Fields and Wiser should accompany the indians by whatever rout they might take to the travelers rest and blaize the trees well as they proceeded and wait at that place until our arrival with the party...Drewyer brought with him three Indians who had consented to accompany us to the falls of the Missouri for the compensation of two guns.

Merriwether Lewis

June 24, 1806

The day keeps cloudy, and the musquitores are very troublesome.  There is a small black fly in this country, that so torments our horese, that they can get no rest, but when we make small fires to keep them off.

Patrick Gass

image size:  3"x7"        price unframed:  $69

frame size:  8"x12"       price:  $105

Hand colored etching by Barbara Coppock