Patit Creek
the timber increases in quantity the hills continue high.
it rained hailed snowed and blowed with great violence the greater portion of the day.
Meriwether Lewis
Photo date: April 18, 2009
Some modern artifacts have been obscured.
Pataha Creek, WA
Plains above Tucannon River
This morning we set out at 7 A. M. steered N. 25 E 12 ms. to Kimooenem Creek through a high level plain.
-Meriwether Lewis-
Photo date: May 2, 2009
Some modern artifacts have been obscured.
Prairie grass above Pataha Creek
the land of the plains is much more fertile than below, less sand and covered with taller grass;
very little of the aromatic shrubs appear in this part of the plain.
-Meriwether Lewis-
Photo date: May 2, 2009
Tucannon River
this creek is about 12 yds. wide pebbly bottom low banks and discharges a considerable body of water....the bottoms of this creek are narrow with some timber principally Cottonwood and willow. the hills are high and abrupt.
-Meriwether Lewis-
Photo date: May 2, 2009
Some modern artifacts have been obscured.
Pataha Creek
the hills of this creek like those of the Kimooenem are high it's bottoms narrow and possess but little timber, lands of a good quality, a dark rich loam. we continued our rout up this creek, on it's N. side.
-Meriwether Lewis-
Photo date: April 18, 2009
Above Camp at Sweeney Gulch
we continued still up the creek bottoms N. 75. E. 2 m to the place at which the road leaves the creek and ascends the hills to the plain
here we encamped in small grove of cottonwood tree which in some measure broke the violence of the wind.
we came 28 ms. today.
-Meriwether Lewis-
Photo date: May 2, 2009
Some modern artifacts have been obscured.
Blue Mountains viewed from above Pataha Creek
the S W. Mountains appear to become lower as they receed to the N E....we are much nearer to them than we were last evening.
they are Covered with timber and at this time Snow.
-William Clark-
Photo date: April 18, 2009
Some modern artifacts have been obscured.
