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1804

•      August 3, 1804 - Council Bluff site, Fort Atkinson State Historical Park, Nebraska, Lewis and Clark gave out peace medals to the Otoe and Missouri chiefs.

•      August 20, 1804 - Near Sioux City, Iowa - The only member of the Corps of Discovery to die on the expedition, Sgt. Charles Floyd succumbed to what is now believed to have been appendicitis. The military funeral was conducted by Capt. Lewis.

•      August 22, 1804 - Elk Point, South Dakota.  First vote west of the Mississippi River.

•      August 23, 1804 - One mile southeast of Vermillion, South Dakota. A wide variety of wildlife was sighted on this day; Joseph Field killed the expedition's first buffalo.

•      August 25, 1804 - Lewis, Clark, Ordway, Drouillard, Shields, Joseph Field, Colter, Bratton, Labiche, E. Cann, Warfington, Fraser and York walked to Spirit Mound, seven miles north of Vermillion, South Dakota, said by Indians to be a place of evil or mischievous spirits.

•      August 30, 1804 - Calumet Bluff, at modern Gavins Point Dam, South Dakota - A council was held with the Yankton Sioux at which Clark made a speech and distributed presents and peace medals.

  1805

  •      August 8, 1805 -  Sacagawea created a stir of excitement when she recognized Beaverhead Rock.

  •      August 12, 1805 - Lewis went up to Lemhi Pass.   Lewis was the first U.S. Citizen to cross the Continental divide.
  •      August 13, 1805- Lewis camped near modern Tendoy, Idaho, Clark was west of Dillon, Montana. Lewis and his party accidentally happened onto a native woman and two girls.

  •      August 17, 1805 - Clark, leading the majority of the Corps, did not arrive at a pre-arranged rendezvous point when expected. In desperation, Lewis sent George Drouillard and several Indians to search for him.

  •      August 18, 1805- Near Tendoy, Idaho - On this, Lewis' 31st birthday, he regreted the hours he spent in indolence and swore to accomplish something for the good of mankind. Presents were given to the Shoshoni, who began to bring in horses for the explorers.

  •      August 20, 1805-Lewis made a cache for the superfluous baggage.

    1806

    •      August 11, 1806 - Lewis and Cruzatte go hunting ... Lewis accidentally shoots Cruzatte in the buttocks.

    •      August 12, 1806 - The reunion of the Lewis and Clark parties.

    •      August 15, 1806 - Knife River Indian Villages. A council was held with the Hidatsa, who did not want to go down the river because of hostile Lakota and Arikara war parties. Colter asked permission to return upriver with Dickson and Hancock to trap beaver; permission was granted, as long as others in the party did not ask the same.

    •      August 17, 1806 - Clark paid Charbonneau $500.33 1/3, his salary as interpreter to the West Coast and back. The Corps took its leave of Colter, who set off upriver with the trappers, and of Charbonneau, Sacagawea, and little Pomp, now over a year and a half old.