Fresh Sturgeon Filet

Kus ke-lar a Clatsop man, his wife and a Small boy (a Slave, who informed me was his Cook, and offerd to Sell him to me for beeds & a gun) visited us to day

they brought Some anchovies, Sturgeon, a beaver robe, and Some roots for Sale...
William Clark

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White, fatty fish meat

Netul Landing (Fort Clatsop

It rained the greater part of last night & this day proved wet & Rainey.
-Joseph Whitehouse-

Photo date: December 18, 2010
Some modern artifacts have been obscured.

White-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii)

The hare on this side of the Rocky mountains is exclusively the inhabitant of the great Plains of Columbia, as they are of those of the Missouri East of these mountains. they weigh from 7 to eleven pounds.
-Meriwether Lewis-

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Tan rabbit with small white tail hopping in the desert

Photo created by the U.S. National Park Service.

Nuttall's Cottontail (Sylvilagus nuttallii)

the rabbit are the same of our country and are found indifferently either in the praries or woodlands. they are not very abundant in this country.
-Meriwether Lewis-

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Nuttall's Cottontail: Tan rabbit with white bushy tail

Photo by Justin Wilde, U.S. Federal Government

Skunk (Mephitis mephitis)

The Pole-cat is also found in every part of the country.
they are very abundant on some parts of the columbia, particularly in the neighbourhood of the great falls and narrows of that river, where the[y] live in the clifts along the river and feed on the offal of the Indian fishing shores.
-Meriwether Lewis-

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Critter about the size of a large cat with black fur and long white stripes

Photo ©2007 Kevin Collins. Permission via the Creative Commons 2.0 License.