Horses at Weippe Prairie

we have Sixty five horses at this time, most of them in excellent order

the deer Swam over and one of our hunters killed it.
William Clark

Photo date: June 22, 2008

Horses above Weippe Prairie

Two Bears Compared
Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis)
Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)

I am disposed to adopt the Indian distinction with rispect to these bear and consider them two distinct speceis. the white and the grizzly of this neighbourhood are the same of those found on the upper portion of the Missouri where the other speceis are not, and that the uniform redish brown black &c of this neighbourhood are a speceis distinct from our black bear and from the black bear of the Pacific coast which I believe to be the same with those of the Atlantic coast, and that the common black bear do not exist here.
Meriwether Lewis

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Grizzly bear with cubs and large brown bear

Grizzly bear photo created by Barry Aumiller of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Brown bear photo created by Steve Hillebrand of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.