Botanicals from the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Yellow Bell

Journal notes from around the time of collection:

May 5, 1805

in the evening several of the natives which was diseased & Sick came to our officers to be healed who gave & applyed meddicine.  the natives promised to reward us by giving us a good horse tommorrow for us to eat as they wished us to Stay two or 3 days with them.

John Ordway

May 6, 1806

we received a second horse for medecine & pro(s)cription to a little girl with the rhumitism whome I had bathed in worm water, and anointed her a little with balsom capivia...I was busily imployed for several hours this morning in administering eye water to a crowd of applicants.  we once more obtained a plentiful meal, much to the comfort of all the party.

William Clark

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

Hand colored etching by Barbara Coppock