“…the Scioues Camps are handsom of a Conic form

Covered with Buffalow Roabs Painted different colours and

all compact & handsomly arranged, ...a Fat Dog was

presented as a mark of their Great respect for the party of which they partook hartily and

thought it good and well flavored.”

September 7, 1804William Clark

... discovered a Village of Small animals that burrow in the grown (those animals are Called by the

french Petite Chien) Killed one and Caught one live by poreing a great

quantity of Water in his hole we attempted to dig to the beds of one of

those animals, ...