As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

- Meriwether Lewis

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a har…

- Meriwether Lewis

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last …

- Meriwether Lewis

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at t…

- Meriwether Lewis

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administer…

- Meriwether Lewis

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infes…

- Meriwether Lewis

As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

- Meriwether Lewis

Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole.

- Meriwether Lewis

The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.

- Meriwether Lewis