July 27, 1804

Today, nothing too exciting happened on the expedition, but just some excess information that may be of some type of interest to someone one day is that my boss, William Clark, spent most of his time on the boat we're traveling on making and writing on maps. The other boss, Merriweather Lewis, spent most of his time on land exploring the surrounding forests paying close attention to soil, plants, animals, and different rock formations. The group of us was always on the lookout for Indians; we always hoped that they would be peaceful if we came across some at any time. We usually tended to be armed at all times, just in case of a surprise attack.
Some of the fauna and flora we came across so far are the Osage Orange Tree, which we noted on March 26, 1804 in St. Louis, Missouri. We also found a Lemon Scurfpea, which was noted sometime during this month I believe, on the upper part of the Missouri River. On July 3, we came across a Missouri Beaver near Platte County, in Missouri. A bit before that, on June 13, a Northern Raccoon was noted in our journals, near the Chariton River in Missouri.

I will continue documenting our journey, leg by leg every once in a while; we are VERY busy afterall.
Keep well,
George Gibson



http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/record_species_165_1_3.html
A picture of a Northern Raccoon.