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Citadel Rock, Wild and Scenic portion of the Missouri River, Montana,

June 20, 2002

[View: north.  47º 49’ 52” N - 110º 04’ 25” W]

[Lewis]                                                                             Friday May 31^st 1805.

. . .   The obstructions of rocky points and riffles still continue as yesterday; at

those places the men are compelled to be in the water even to their armpits,

and the water is yet very could, and so frequent are those point that they are

one fourth of their time in the water, added to this the banks and bluffs along

which they are obliged to pass are so slippery and the mud so tenacious that

they are unable to wear their mockersons, and in that situation draging the

heavy burthen of a canoe and walking ocasionally for several hundred yards

over the sharp fragments of rocks which tumble from the clifts and garnish

the borders of the river; in short their labour is incredibly painfull and great,

yet those faithful fellows bear it without a murmur.