William Clark and Walamottinin
(Chief Twisted Hair)

I divided the fish roots and buries,
Meriwether Lewis

I got the Twisted hare to draw the river from his Camp
William Clark

This statue is located at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
Read more about Walamottinin at Washington History Online.

Statue of William Clark and Walamottinin (Chief Twisted Hair)

Photo date: September 20, 2008. Some modern artifacts have been obscured.

Pheasant Camp

This morning clear & pleasant, with a small white frost.
-Joseph Whitehouse-

Brown prairie, blue creek, blue sky, and green forest

Photo date: September 12, 2008.

Crane Meadow

we ascended a mountain, & went on some distance, & came to a smooth level clear place, where there was a clear run of water—. At this run, we were met with by Robert Fields, (one of the party that had went with Captain Clark,) and who Captain Clark had sent back to meet our party; this Man brought with him some Salmon, & other kinds of food, which they had purchased from some Indians
-Joseph Whitehouse-

Small, long meadow in a thick forest

Photo ©2005 by Gene Eastman. Some modern artifacts have been obscured.

View from Brown Ridge

We proceeded on, and crossed a Mountain; & descended down into a handsome smooth Valley;
-Joseph Whitehouse-

Tan and brown prairie with thick forest on the other side

Photo date: September 20, 2008. Some modern artifacts have been obscured.

Weippe Prairie

the pleasure I now felt in having tryumphed over the rocky Mountains and decending once more to a level and fertile country where there was every rational hope of finding a comfortable subsistence for myself and party can be more readily conceived than expressed, nor was the flattering prospect of the final success of the expedition less pleasuing.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Painting of Clark greeting Lewis at a Nez Perce village in Weippe

Painting located in Southern Hills Mall, Sioux City, Iowa and created by by Split Rock Studios.

Clearwater Canyon

this young horse in fright threw himself & me 3 times on the Side of a Steep hill & hurt my hip much, Cought a Coalt which we found on the roade & I rode it for Several miles untill we saw the Chiefs horses, he cought one & we arrived at his Village at Sunet,
-William Clark-

Deep narrow canyon with Ponderosa pine with golden cast of sunset

Photo date: September 19, 2009. Some modern artifacts have been obscured.