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photo, right, matches Captain Clark's description of this section
of the Salmon River. The weathered interpretive sign looks much like
a tattered journal page you might find under a bush! It's testimony
to the severe weather possible in this part of Idaho. These bones
were lying near the river. They could be from a mountain sheep, deer,
or calf. Clark's starving men would have boiled the bones for a soup
had they made this discovery. Patrick Gass writes that the hunters
"killed three prairie hens, or pheasants" the afternoon
of August 23rd. I assume the men consumed those and maybe fish. |
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