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west from Devils Chair, Forest Road 500 loops northwest, bypassing
a short southwest section of both historic trails. Our group hits
the trail once more, climbing past monkey flowers, left center, on
the way to Sinque Hole Camp. Private Joseph Whitehouse, used this
unique spelling in his journal entry: "Camped at a Small branch
on the mountain near a round deep Sinque hole full of water."
Local authority, Steve F. Russell writes in his LCT map book, Lewis
and Clark across the Mountains:"It is one of the few very
few distinct geographic features whose locations we can positively
identify, because its appearance is much like that seen by the Corps."
In a footnote, Russell discusses the experts' controversy about different
edited versions of the Whitehouse journal concerning the Corps's September
17, 1805 campsite. (continued on next page) |
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