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Liberty Fireworks, Great Falls, Montana, June 27, 2000

[View: west.  47º 29’ 38” N - 111º 15’ 28” W]

[Lewis]                                                                              Thursday July 4^th 1805.

. . .our work being at an end this evening, we gave the men a drink of sperits,

it being the last of our stock, and some of them appeared a little sensible of it’s

effects   the fiddle was plyed and they danced very merrily untill 9 in the evening

when a heavy shower of rain put an end to that part of the amusement tho’ they

continued their mirth with songs and festive jokes and were extreemly merry

untill late at night.   we had a very comfortable dinner, of bacon, beans, suit

dumplings & buffaloe beaf &c.   in short we had no just cause to covet the

sumptuous feasts of our countrymen on this day.-