APRIL 7, 1805 Lewis and Clark send the keelboat down the Missouri River with a shipment for President Jefferson. Congratulations, you have found one of the objects for the specimen box! The site, managed by the Travelers' Rest Preservation & Heritage Association, is a Montana State Park with interpretive trail and a visitor center. January 1805 The Corps attends a Mandan buffalo dance, performed to call buffalo to the area. . Map PLUS Lewis and Clark timeline of region PDF 454 KB. he followed the track of the horse we had pursued yesterday to the mountain wher it had ascended, and returned to me in about an hour and a half. More information. Sacagawea discovers that … Introduction. A timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. to add the bear to your specimen box or click here for a printable version. More information. The Timeline presents quotations from the 1814 journal publication for each day, with a map inset showing the location of the Corps of Discovery during that day. ; August 17, 1805 - Discovery of a Shoshone tribe. August 12 Lewis’ party rejoins Clark just above the mouth of the Little Knife River (in present-day North Dakota). April 2, 1805 - Fort Mandan, North Dakota - "we are all day engaged packing up Sundry articles to be sent to the President of the U.S." At the end of the winter at Fort Mandan, Lewis and Clark packed up a number of items to send back down the river with a small return party. The child is later nicknamed Pompy, or Pomp by Clark. Lewis and Clark Timeline. Fort Mandan . Search. Lewis and Clark name the site Camp Fortunate. September 9, 1805 - - The expedition camps at present day Missoula, Montana, a spot Lewis and Clark called Travelers Rest to prepare for the mountain crossing. halted below the 2d at a Indian village of 9 large houses— those Indians live on an emenence behind a Island or a Channel of the river not more than 300 yds wide, they live on fish & Elk and Wapto roots, of which we bought a few at a high price they Call them Selves Cat-tar-bets . By August, 1805, Lewis and Clark believe the fate of the expedition hangs on finding the Shoshone and buying horses from them. Lewis and Clark departing from St. Louis, Missouri, in 1804 and went all the way to the Pacific coast. He tells Lewis, and he starts learning everything there has to know, and ordering supplies. The child is later nicknamed Pompy, or Pomp by Clark. August 8, 1805 – Sacagawea recognized Beaverhead Rock and the river banks where the Shoshones lived. LEWIS & CLARK TIMELINE 1805 FEBRUARY 11, 1805 Sacagawea, Charbonneau’s Indian wife, gives birth to a son, Jean Baptiste, at Fort Mandan. . 1805 Journal Entry Archives May 5 - 10 , 1805. Travelers' Rest is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The expedition comes to a stop at a fork in the river. August 8, 1805 - Sacagawea recognizes Beaverhead Rock and the headwaters of the Missouri river the home of her tribe, the Shoshones. September 9, 1805 - - The expedition camps at present day Missoula, Montana, a spot Lewis and Clark called Travelers Rest to prepare for the mountain crossing. More information. Sacagawea gave birth to a son, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau. Lewis and Clark negotiate with the tribe for the horses. The Lewis and Clark expedition (at the time known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition), was the first American exploration of what is now the western portion of the United States. This is the timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the American West, 1803-1806. January 18, 1803 Thomas Jefferson sends a secret […] APRIL 7, 1805 Lewis and Clark send the keelboat down … Lewis’s last entry in his journals is a description of the pin, or bird, cherry. When Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Volunteers for Northwestern Discovery crossed into what is now the state of Washington in October 1805, they assumed that the worst part of their journey was behind them.