![]() ![]() “We find a great number of burrowing squirels about our camp,” he wrote-referring to the Columbian ground squirrel, Spermophilus columbianus-”of which we killed Several I eate of them and found them quit as tender and well flavd. It came to mind on 10 June 1806, as the Corps was at Weippe Prairie preparing to recross the Bitterroot Mountains. ![]() “Postexpeditionary Miscellany,” Moulton, Journals, 8:416. He continued to pay attention to the species, however, finally recording the observation that he had seen it as high up the Missouri as the mouth of the Little Sioux River, 733 miles from the Mississippi by Clark’s estimate. Lewis noticed the migration every day for the rest of the week, but wrote no more about it. to the East shore they appear to be making to the south perhaps it may be mast or food which they are in serch of but I should rather suppose that it is climate which is their object as I find no difference in the quantity of mast on both sides of this river it being abundant on both except the beach nut which appears extreemly scarce this season, the walnuts and Hickory nuts the usual food of the squirrell appears in great abundance on either side of the river-I made my dog take as many each day as I had occation for, they wer fat and I thought them when fryed a pleasent food- many of these squirrils wer black, they swim very light on the water and make pretty good speed. Observed a number of squirrels swiming the Ohio and universally passing from the W. Lewis wrote a description of the eastern gray squirrel, the first of his natural history observations, on 11 September 1803, twelve days after he left Pittsburgh on his voyage down the Ohio. ![]()
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