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Sites of Discovery: Photographs from the Lewis and Clark Trail

 

17.-GoodenoughLake

Goodenough Lake, Union County, South Dakota, August 15, 1998

[View: north.  42º 32’ 53” N — 96º 31’ 45” W]

 

[Clark]                                                                          21st August Tuesday 1804

. . .  passed the Soues River S. S.   this River is about the Size of Grand river and

as Mr. Durrien our Soues intptr. says “navagable to the falls 70 or 80 Leagues. . .

on the right below the falls a Creek Coms in which passes thro Clifts of red rock

which the Indians make pipes of, and when the different nations Meet at those

queries all is piece. . .

 

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