The Billings Gazette has a daily feature in honor of the bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark expedition. On September 5, 2006, the explorers and their crew are on what later became the Iowa-Nebraska state line.
From the Gazette:
We did not meet with McClellen as we expected at the Creek. the report of the guns which was heard must have been the Mahars who most probably have just arrived at their village from hunting the buffalow. this is a Season they usialy return to their village to Secure their Crops of Corn Beens punkins &c. proceeded on very well passd. the blue Stone bluff at 3 P. M here the river leaves the high lands and meanders through a low rich bottom. Encamped on the S W Side on a Sand bar at a cut off a little below our Encampment of the 9th of August 1804 haveing made 73 Miles to day. Capt. Lewis still in a Convelesent State.
The photograph is from my personal collection, taken on a rainy morning last fall near Blair, Nebraska.
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