Lake Como, Bitterroot Range (Montana)
September 4th Wednesday 1805
"...we assended a mountain & took a Divideing ridge which we kept for Several Miles & fell on the head of a Creek which appeared to run the Course we wished to go, I was in front, & Saw several of the Argalia or Ibex decended the mountain by verry Steep decent takeing the advantage of the points and best places to the Creek, where our hunter killed a Deer which we made use of and prosued our Course down the Creek to the forks about 5 miles where we met a part[y] of the Tushepau [Flat head] nation of 33 Lodges about 80 men 400 Total and at least 500 horses, those people recved us friendly, threw white robes over our Sholders & Smoked in the pipes of peace....I was the first white man who ever wer on the waters of this river."
William Clark
The above quote is taken directly from the Gary Moulton, University of Nebraska version of the Lewis and Clark Journals.
