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Elephant Ride, Oscar’s Dreamland, Yellowstone County, Montana,

July 22, 2000

[View: south.  45º 42’ 12” N — 108º 37’ 09” W]

[Clark]                                                                             Thursday 24^th July 1806.

at 8 A. M. we Set out and proceeded on very well to a riffle about 1 mile above

the enterance of Clarks fork. . .  at 6 ms. below the fork I halted on a large Island. . .

on this Island I observed a large lodge. . .a council lodge, it is of a Conocil form 60

feet diamuter at its base built of 20 poles each pole 2 1/2 feet in Secumpherance

and 45 feet Long built in the form of a lodge & covered with bushes.  in this Lodge

I observed a Cedar bush Sticking up on the opposit side of the lodge fronting the

dore, on one side was a Buffalow head, and on the other Several Sticks bent and

Stuck in the ground.  a Stuffed Buffalow skin was Suspended from the Center with

the back down.  the top of those poles were deckerated with feathers of the Eagle

& Calumet Eagle also Several Curious pieces of wood bent in Circleler form with

sticks across them in form of a Griddle hung on tops of the lodge poles others in

form of a large Sturrip.