Lewis and Clark Map

[Beth]

Library of Congress Link

I am afraid that further commentary will have to wait for a different day but there are a couple of notes I want to record.

First there is a Mar shas kap River.  According to a foot note I found in the Lewis and Clark Journal that may be a Rosebud Creek


"18. Graveyard Creek, in Rosebud County just west of the Custer County line, meeting the Yellowstone a little below present Hathaway; "Mar shas kap River" on Atlas map 120. The camp, as Clark notes, was opposite the creek mouth in Rosebud County. The Indian name would have been obtained from the Mandans or Hidatsas, but Clark may have misidentified it, since the actual Mar-shas-kap appears to have been Rosebud Creek; see Fort Mandan Miscellany. The term appears to be a Hidatsa name, mickapa aaši, "rosebud creek" (see July 19, 1806)."  

The Fort Mandan Miscellany has at the bottom  

AFFLUENTS OF THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER

Lewis and Clark's Name Present Name and Location

Oke-tar-pas-ah-ha O'Fallon Creek, Prairie County, Montana

War-rah-sash or Powder

River Powder River, Prairie County, Montana

Le-ze-ka or Tongue River Tongue River, Custer County, Montana

Mar-shas-kap River Rosebud Creek, Rosebud County, Montana

Little Wolf Mountain Creek Big Porcupine Creek, Rosebud County,

Montana

Ark-tar-ha River Sarpy Creek, Treasure County, Montana

Ar-sar-ta or Bighorn River Bighorn River, Treasure-Yellowstone county line, Montana

Stinking Cabbin Creek Stinking Cabbin Creek">Boulder River, Sweetgrass County, Montana

[quincannon]

Interesting. Did not know they explored that country, although I knew they passed through it.

[Beth]

Clark explored the Yellowstone on their return trip.  

Here is a map of their route.  link  and more information  link

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I will have to look in my Book Lakota America about what the Sioux/Crow thought about Lewis and Clark. I don't think they were very happy.