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camped at the Snake/Clearwater confluence, Captain Clark recorded
extensive journal entries concerning Nez Perce culture, top right.
Besides describing clothing, he explained their yearly living routine:
"Their amusements appear but few as their Situation requires
the utmost exertion to prcure food they are generally employed in
that pursute, all the Summer & fall fishing for the Salmon, the
winter hunting the deer on Snow Shoes in the plains and takeing care
of ther emence numbers of horses, & in the Spring cross the mountains
to the Missouri to get Buffalow robes and meet &c." He also
recorded the two rivers at the confluence: "...I think Lewis's
River [Snake River] is about 250 yards wide, the Koos koos River [Clearwater
River] about 150 yards wide." The interpretive sign for these
photos is on US HWY 12, west of Clarkston. |
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