Lewis & Clark Quick Facts

• Muster of the Corps of Northwest Discovery
• Corps of Discovery Supplies
• Tribes Encountered by the Corps of Discovery
• Big Sky Flora and Fauna Discoveries

CORPS OF DISCOVERY MUSTER

St. Louis to Fort Mandan

Captains’ Mess:
Captain Meriwether Lewis
Captain William Clark
Interpreter George Drouillard
York
Seaman

First Squad:
Sergeant:
Nathanial Pryor
Privates:
George Gibson
Thomas P. Howard
George Shannon
John Shields
John Collins
Joseph Whitehouse
Peter Weiser
Hugh Hall

Second Squad:
Sergeants:
Charles Floyd
Patrick Gass*
Privates:
Hugh McNeal
Patrick Gass
Reubin Field
Joseph Field
John B. Thompson
John Newman
Richard Windsor
Richard Warfington
Robert Frazier

* Second Squad elected Private Gass as sergeant after the death of Sergeant Charles Floyd.

Third Squad:
Sergeant:
John Ordway
Privates:
William Bratton
John Colter
Moses B. Reed
Alexander Willard
William Werner
Silas Goodrich
John Potts
John Robertson
John Boley

Fort Mandan to the Pacific and Back

Captains’ Mess:
Captain Meriwether Lewis
Captain William Clark
Interpreter George Drouillard
York
Toussaint Charbonneau
Sacagawea
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
Seaman

First Squad:
Sergeant:
Nathanial Pryor
Privates:
George Gibson
Thomas P. Howard
George Shannon
John Shields
John Collins
Joseph Whitehouse
Peter Weiser
Hugh Hall

Second Squad:
Sergeant:
Patrick Gass
Privates:
Hugh McNeal
Reubin Field
Joseph Field
John B. Thompson
Richard Windsor
Robert Frazier
Jean Baptiste La Page

Third Squad:
Sergeant:
John Ordway
Privates:
William Bratton
John Colter
Alexander Willard
William Werner
Silas Goodrich
John Potts

ENLISTED SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS
RECRUITMENT LOCATION¹

Clarksville (the nine young men from Kentucky)
William Bratton
John Colter
Joseph Field
Ruebin Field
Charles Floyd
George Gibson
Nathaniel Pryor
George Shannon
John Shields

South West Point
Hugh Hall
Thomas Howard
John Potts
Richard Warfington

Fort Massac
George Drouillard (civilian)
John Newman
Joseph Whitehouse

Kaskaskia
John Boley
John Collins
John Dame
Patrick Gass
John Ordway
Ebenezer Tuttle
Peter Wiser
Isaac White
Alexander Willard
Richard Windsor

St. Charles
Pierre Cruzatte
Francois Labiche²

Fort Mandan
Toussaint Charbonneau (civilian)
Sacagawea (civilian)
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (civilian)
Baptiste Lepage

ENGAGÉS³

Etienne Malboeuf
Peter Pinaut
Paul Primeau
François Rivet
Peter Roi
Charles Caugee
Alexander Carson
Charles Hebért
Joseph Collin
“Rokey” (Ross; Rocque)
Jean Baptiste Deschamps
Joseph La Bartee (Barter)
Jean Baptiste La Jeunnesse

CORPS OF DISCOVERY SUPPLIES

FOOD SUPPLIES

2000 pounds Pork (five barrels)
2000 pounds of Flour
5 barrels Corn
5 barrels whiskey⁴

193 pounds Portable Soup
3 bushels of Alum or Rock Salt
Spices assorted
30 gallons of strong spirit wine⁵

MEDICINAL SUPPLIES

15 pounds best powdered bark (Peruvian)
½ pound Pulvis (powdered) Jalap [constipation; Chuinard, p. 155]
½ pound Pulverized Rhubarb [purgative; Chuinard, p. 158-159]
4 ounces of Powdered Ipicacuan [induce vomiting; Chuinard, p. 158]
2 pounds of Pulvis Crem. Tarter [purgative; Chuinard, p. 158-159]
2 ounces of Gum Camphor [stimulant and diaphoretic; Chuinard p. 158]
1 pound Gum Assafoetid [purgative; Chuinard, p. 158-159]
2 ounces of Gum Camphor
½ pound gum Opium Turkish opt
¼ pound Gum Tragacanth
4 ounces Laudanum
2 pounds Ung. Basilic Flav.
2 pounds Ung. E lap Cailmin
1 pound Ung. Epispastric
1 pound Ung. Mercurial
1. Emplast. Diach. S.
1. Set Pocket Instruments small
1. Set Teeth Instrument small
1. Clyster Syringe [for enemas; Chuinard, p. 158]
6 pounds Glauber Salts [purgative; Chuinard, p. 158-159]
2 pound Sal Nitri [saltpeter; uses—diuretic & diaphoretic, fever, and gonorrhea; Chuinard, p. 156]
2 pounds Copperas
6 ounces Sacchar. Saturn. Opt. [Used in eyewashes; Chuinard, p. 158] [venereal disease; Chuinard, p. 159]
4 ounces Calomel [used a purgative and for treating syphilis—200 parts mercury to 35.5 parts chlorine; Chuinard, p. 133]
1 ounce Tarter Emetic
4 ounces Vitriol Alb. [zinc sulphate used in eyewashes; Chuinard, p. 157-158]
½ pound Columbo Rad.
¼ pound Ess. Meth. pip.
¼ pound Balsam Copaiboe [venereal disease; Chuinard, p. 159]
¼ pound Balsam Traumat [used as abrasion dressing; Chuinard, p. 159]
2 ounces Magnesia [purgative; Chuinard, p. 158-159]
¼ pound Indian Ink
2 ounces Gun Elastic⁶
2 ounces of Nutmegs [mixed with decoctions and salves to improve flavor and aroma; Chuinard, p. 158]
2 ounces of Cloves [mixed with decoctions and salves to improve flavor and aroma; Chuinard, p. 158]
4 ounces of Cinnamon [mixed with decoctions and salves to improve flavor and aroma; Chuinard, p. 158] ⁷
4. Penis do. [pewter penis syringes]
3. Best Lancets
1. Tourniquet
2 ounces Patent Lint
50 dozen Bilious Pills to order of B. Rush
6 Tin Canisters
3 8 ounce Gd. Stopd. Bottles
5 4 ounce Tinctures do
6 4 ounce Salt Mo.
1 Walnut Chest
1 Pine do.
2 pounds of Hyson Tea (canisters)⁸

INDIAN PRESENTS

12 Pipe Tomahawks
6 ½ lbs. Strips Sheet Iron
1 Ps. Red flannel 47 ½ yards
11 Ps. Handkerchiefs assorted
1 dozen Ivory Combs
½ Catty Inda. S. Silk
21 lbs. Tread assd.
1 Ps. Scarlet Cloth 22 yards
5 ½ dozen fancy 1 Floss
6 Gro. Binding
2 Cards Beads
4 dozen Butcher Knives
12 dozen Pocket Looking Glasses
15 dozen Pewter do. Do.
8 dozen Burning do.
2 dozen Nonesopretty
2 dozen Red striped tapes
72 ps. Striped silk ribbon
3 lbs. Beads
6 Papers Small Bellls
1 box with 100 larger do.
73 bunches Beads assorted
3 ½ dozen: Tinsel Bands assorted
1 dozen: Needle Cases
2 ¾ dozen Lockets
8 ½ lbs. Red Beads
2 dozen Earrings
8 Brass Kettles a 4/per lb.
12 lbs. Brass Strips
500 Broaches
72 Rings
2 Corn Mills
15 dozen scissors
12 lbs. Brass Wire
14 lbs. Knitting pins
4600 needles assorted
2800 fishhooks assorted
1 Gro. Iron Combs
3 Gro. Curtain Rings
2 Gro. Thimbles assorted
11 dozen Knives
10 lbs. Brads
8 lbs. Red lead
2 lbs. Vermillion
130 Ross of Tobacco (pigtail)
48 Calico Ruffled Shirts
15 Blankets (from P. Store)
1 Trunk to pack sundry Indian Presents
8 Groce Seat or Moccasin Awls
From Public Store—vizt. 15 Blankets⁹

CAMP EQUIPAGE

4 Tin Horns
2 Tin Lanthorns
2 Tin Lamps
32 Tin Canisters of P. Soup
1 Tin Box sqr. Of Small art.
3 dozen Pint Tumblers
125 Large fishing Hooks
Fishing Lines assorted
1 Stand of Fishing do. With hooks (Complete)
1 Sportsman’s flask
8 ps. Cat gut for Mosquito Curtain
6 Brass Kettles & Porterage 25 cts.
1 block tin Sauce pan
1 Corn Mill
1 Set of Gold Scales and Weights
1 Rule
1 Sett Iron Weights
2 pair Large Shears
4 dozen Packages Needles and large Awls
2 dozen Table Spoons
4 drawing Knives
3 dozen Gimblets
17 dozen files and Rasps and 1 Shoe float
1 ¼ dozen Small cord
2 Small Vises
2 pair Pliers
1 Saw Sett
9 Chisels
2 Adzes
2 hand Saws
6 Augers 6
2 Hatchets
1 Whetstone
2 p. Pocket steel yards
Pkg. 12 lbs Castile Soap

From Public Store

8 Receipt Books
48 ps. Tape
6 Brass Inkstands
6 Papers Ink Powder
1 Common Tent
1 lb. Sealing Wax
100 Quills
1 Packing Hogshead
Bought by the Purveyor of Richard Wevill

8 Tents
45 Bags
10 yd. Country Linen} Oiled
20 yd. Brown do.} Oiled¹⁰

MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS

1 Spirit level
1 Case platting Instruments
1 Two pole chain
1 Pocket Compass plated
1 Brass Boat Compass
3 Brass Pocket Compasses
1 Magnet
1 Hadleys Quadrant with Tangt Screw
1 Metal Sextant
Microscope to index od d
Sett of slates in a case
4 oz. Of Talc
1 Surveying Compass with extra needles (P by L)
1 Circular protractor and index
1 Six Inch Pocket Telescope
1 nautical Ephemeris
1 Requisite Tables
Kirwan’s Mineralogy
1 Chronometer and Keys
1 Copy Bartons Botany
Kelleys Spherics
2 Nautical Ephemeris
Log line reel and log ship
Parallel Glass for a Horizon¹¹

ARMS AND ACCOUTREMENTS AND AMMUNITION

1 Pair Pocket pistols (P. by L.)
176 lb. Gun powder
52 leaden Canisters for Gunpowder
15 Powder Horns and Pouches - From Public Store
15 Powder Horns
18 Tomahawks
15 Scalping Knives and Belts
15 Gun Slings
30 Brushes and Wires
15 Cartouch Boxes
15 painted Knapsacks
200 Rifle Flints
125 Musket do.
50 lbs. Best rifle Powder
1 pair Horseman’s Pistols
420 lbs. Sheet Lead¹²

PROVISIONS

193 lbs. Portable Soup
30 gallons of wine in 6 Kegs
45 Flannel Shirts
16 Coatees - From Public Stores vizt.
15 Blankets
15 Match Coats
15 Ps. Blue wool. Overalls
36 pairs Stockings
20 Frocks
30 Pr. Shirts
30 Pr. Shoes¹³

TRIBES ENCOUNTERED BY THE CORPS OF DISCOVERY

NEBRASKA

1. Oto—August 3, 1804
2. Omaha--

MISSOURI

3. Missouri—August 3, 1804

SOUTH DAKOTA

4. Yankton Sioux
5. Teton Sioux
6. Arikara

NORTH DAKOTA

7. Mandan
8. Hidatsa

MONTANA/IDAHO

9. Lemhi Shoshone
10. Blackfeet
11. Crow (although they did not actually see any, they did "borrow" all of Clark's horses when they were on the Yellowstone)
12. Salish
13. Assiniboin
14. Atsina
15. Nez Perce

WASHINGTON/OREGON

16. Clatsop
17. Walula
18. Chinook
19. Tillamook
20. Yakima
21. Wanapams
22. Umatilla
23. Wishram
24. Wasco
25. Yelleppit
26. Cayuse
27. Skilloot

LEWIS AND CLARK MONTANA FLORA AND FAUNA DISCOVERIES

FLORA

1. Geyer’s Onion—July 23, 1805 near Three Forks
2. Nuttall’s Atriplex—July 20, 1806 below the forks of the Marias River
3. Western Paper Birch—August 3, 1805 Jefferson River
4. Balsam Root—July 7, 1806 Lewis and Clark Pass
5. Sticky Laurel; Mountain Balm—sometime between June 24 and June 29, 1806 in the Bitterroots
6. Leafy or Dwarf Thistle—July 23, 1805 north of Three Forks
7. Red False Mallow—July 20, 1806 near the forks of the Marias River
8. Mountain Lady’s Slipper—June 30, 1806 near Lolo Hot Springs
9. Silverberry—July 6, 1806 west of Lewis and Clark Pass
10. White-Margined Spurge—July 28, 1806 Cutright believes on the Marias River rather than the Yellowstone
11. Great-Flowered Gaillardia—July 6, 1806 west of Lewis and Clark Pass
12. Western Blue-Flag—July 5, 1806 Steven’s Prairie Lewis and Clark County
13. Bitterroot; Rock Rose—July 1, 1806 Lolo Creek (Traveler’s Rest)
14. Lewis’s Wild Flax—July 9, 1806 on the Sun River near Great Falls
15. Involucred Fly-Honey-Suckle—July 7, 1806 Lewis and Clark Pass
16. Silvery Lupine—July 7, 1806 headwaters of the Blackfoot River
17. Lewis’s Monkey Flower—Lemhi Pass 1805
18. Large Monkey Flower—July 4, 1806 on the Blackfoot River
19. Scapose Primrose—July 17, 1806 between the Great Falls and Teton River
20. Brittle Opuntia—May 20, 1805 below the mouth of the Musselshell River
21. Owl’s Clover—July 1, 1806 Traveler’s Rest (Lolo Creek)
22. Silver Oxytrope—July 1, 1806 Bitterroot River near Lolo
23. Lousewort—July 6, 1806 headwaters of the Blackfoot River
24. Lewis’s Sringa—July 4, 1806 Blackfoot River
25. Narrowleaf Cottonwood—June 12, 1805 north side of Missouri River between the Great Falls and Marias River
26. Plains Cottonwood
27. Antelope Brush; Black Sage—July 6, 1806 west of Lewis and Clark Pass
28. Sitka Mountain Ash—September 4, 1805 near Ross’s Hole
29. Golden Currant—July 29, 1805 Three Forks of the Missouri
30. White Squaw Currant—June 18, 1805 Great Falls of the Missouri
31. Greasewood—July 20, 1806 near the forks of the Marias River
32. Narrow-Petaled Stonecrop—July 1, 1806 near confluence of Lolo Creek
33. Tansy—June 6, 1805 on the Teton River
34. Small-Headed Clover—July 1, 1806 confluence of Lolo Creek
35. Glaucous Zygadene—July 7, 1806 on the Blackfoot River¹⁴

FAUNA

1. Goldeye—June 11, 1805 near the confluence of the Marias and Missouri Rivers
2. Mountain Sucker—July 16, 1806 from the Yellowstone River
3. Cutthroat Trout—June 13, 1805 Great Falls of the Missouri
4. Sauger—June 11, 1805 Missouri and Marias Rivers
5. Soft-Shelled Turtle—July 29, 1806 near confluence of Tongue and Yellowstone Rivers
6. Prairie Rattler—June 15, 1805 Great Falls of the Missouri
7. Western Hog-Nose Snake—July 23, 1805 near Townsend, MT
8. Water Terrapin—June 25, 1805 Great Falls of the Missouri
9. Western Garter Snake—July 24, 1805 near Townsend, MT
10. Lewis’s Woodpecker—July 20, 1805 Lewis and Clark County
11. Hutchins’s Goose—May 5, 1805 near Poplar River
12. Western Willet—May 9, 1805 near Fort Peck Dam
13. Sage Grouse—June 5, 1805 Marias River
14. Pacific Nighthawk—June 30, 1805 Great Falls of the Missouri
15. Richardson’s Blue Grouse—July 21, 1805 Lewis and Clark County
16. Brewer’s Blackbird—June 25, 1805 Great Falls of the Missouri
17. Pinon Jay—August 1, 1805 Jefferson River
18. White-Rumped Shrike—June 10, 1805 Confluence of Marias River
19. McCown’s Longspur—June 4, 1805 Marias River
20. Pale Goldfinch—June 8, 1805 Marias River
21. Western Meadowlark—June22, 1805 Great Falls of the Missouri
22. Western Morning Dove—July 1, 1806 confluence of Lolo Creek and Bitterroot River
23. Shira’s Moose—May 10, 1805 near Milk River; July 7, 1806 Lewis and Clark Pass
24. Yellow-Haired Porcupine—May 3, 1805 confluence of Poplar River
25. Mountain Lion—August 3, 1805 killed by Reubin Field on the Jefferson River
26. Striped Skunk—May 25, 1805 confluence of the Musselshell River
27. Bushy-Tailed Wood Rat—July 2, 1805 Great Falls of the Missouri
28. Audubon’s Mountain Sheep—April 26, 1805 confluence of the Yellowstone River
29. Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrel—July 8, 1805 Great Falls of the Missouri
30. Grizzly Bear—April 29, 1805 near Big Muddy Creek
31. Swift Fox—July 6, 1805 Great Falls of the Missouri