“A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it, of course, very cheerfully.”
“The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained with Captain Clarke’s party, and they returned in the evening, several of them frostbitten.”
“The mosquitos continue to infest us with such a manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.”
“As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.”
“The morning was fair and the day proved favorable to our operations . . . in the early part of day two of our men fired on a panther, a little below our encampment, and wounded it; they informed us that it was very large, had just killed a deer, partly devoured it, and in the act of concealing the balance; they discovered him.” – the first sighting of the Mountain Lion
“In returning through the level bottom of Medicine river and about 200 yards distant from the Missouri, my direction led me directly to an animal that I at first supposed was a wolf. But on a nearer approach, or about sixty paces distant I discovered that it was not. Its color was a brownish yellow; it was standing near its burrow, and when I approached it thus nearly, it crouched itself down like a cat looking immediately at me as if it designed to spring on me.” – the first sighting of the Wolverine
“This animal is the largest of the carnivorous kind I ever saw we had nothing that could weigh him. I think his weight may be started at 500 pounds….” – the first sighting of the Grizzly Bear
“I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.”