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Sites of Discovery: Photographs from the Lewis and Clark Trail

 

20.-FtPierreGrasslands

Ft Pierre National Grasslands, Stanley County, South Dakota, July 12, 1997

[View: west.  44° 12’ 45” N - 100° 19’ 55” W]

 

[Clark]                                                         Satturday the 22nd of September 1804

. . .The plains on both Sides of the River is butifull and assends gradually from the

river; noumerous herds of Buffalow to be Seen in every derections. . . I walked on

the Shore this evening and Killed a verry large Deer—  our hunters Killed 2 Deer &

a Beaver, they Complain of the Mineral quallites of the high land distroying their

mockersons—.

 

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