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Endnotes

Modes of Travel

1. Joseph Mussulman and Mark Behan, http://www.lewis-clark.org/index.htm

Supplies

1. Donald Jackson, ed., Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: With Related Documents, 1783-1854, (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1962), p. 75, 86. Hereafter referred to as Letters of the L & C Expedition.

Equipment

1. Ibid., p. 95.
2. Robert R. Hunt, "Matches and Magic: Just How Did the Corps of Discovery Make Fire?" We Proceeded On, August 2000, Vol. 26, No. 3, p. 13-17.
3. Jackson, Letters of the L & C Expedition, p. 70, 96,

Native American Encounters

None at this time.

Personnel

1. Charles G. Clarke, The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-one Members and a Composite Diary of Their Activities from all Known Sources, (The Arthur H. Clark Company: Glendale, CA, 1970), 71. See also We Proceeded On, Vol. 16, No. 1 February 1990, p. 4-11. Hereafter referred to as WPO.

Diet

1. Ken Walcheck, unpublished source.
2. Gary Moulton, ed., The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Vol. 6, p. 162. See also, Bakeless, Lewis and Clark: Partners in Discovery, (William Morrow & Company, New York, 1947), p. 272.

Firearms

1. Ray Nelson, The Lewis & Clark Expedition Air Rifle: "A Great Curiosity," (Brainerd, MN: Makit Drafting, 2000), 2-5. The above explanation is overly simplistic for a more detailed examination you might try The Airgun Revue #6, specifically the article by Robert D. Beeman and his follow up in The Airgun Letter, May 2001.
2. Ibid., 5.

Botany/Natural History

1. Donald Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1981), 26. See also WPO, Vol. 9 No. 4, November 1983, page 6.
2. Ibid., 38.
3. Dan Flores, Montana Magazine of Western History, "A Very Different Story: Exploring the Southwest from Monticello with the Freeman and Custis Expedition of 1806," (Volume 50, No. 1 Spring 2000), p. 2-17.

Cartography

1. Jackson, Letters of the L & C Expedition, p. 61 (Jefferson's instructions to Lewis).

Montana Specific

1. Bob Saindon fact sheet Montana Historical Society 10-19-87.
2. Ibid.

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