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As the Corps moved up the Missouri, they found less and less buffalo.
They had stored dried meat and buffalo fat for the lean times ahead.
On the day they passed Pelican Point Fishing Access, Lewis wistfully
described the last fresh buffalo meat they would consume for a while:
"Drewyer killed a buffaloe this morning near the river and we
halted and breakfasted on it. here for the first time I ate of the
small guts of the buffaloe cooked over a blazing fire in the Indian
stile without any preperation of washing or other clensing and found
them very good...." They would stare at these vacant hills and
remember the vast herds seen and shot during the month at Great Falls. |
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