Plains Horned Toad

May 18, 1804

Today we are is St. Louis, Missouri.  We found a Plains Horned Toad and captain Lewis sent is directly to Jefferson.  It looked like a flat bodied lizard with a crown of spines on his head.  It lives from Kansas to Texas and west to southeastern Arizona.

Plains grey wolf

                May 30, 1804

Today we saw our first Plains grey wolf we were new present-day Leavenworth, Kansas.  I looked like a very large dog, it had grey fur but it had some other colors in it to.  Its tail was long and bushy with a black tip.  It mostly lives in open tundra and forests.

Northern Raccoon

June 13, 1804
  The first time they saw this masked face bandit was near the Charition River Missouri.  This Raccoon is seen all around the U.S. except for portions of the Rocky Mountains.  It is gray and brown with much black.  It has a face with a black mask outlined in white.  Tail bushy with four to six alternating black-brown or grayish rings.  

Missouri beaver

July 3, 1804
Lewis and Clark found this animal when they when one of their men shot one.  The large animal has soft silky fur and a large scaly tail.  It is 2-4 feet and 44- 60 pounds in weight.  Its range is most of Canada and U.S.

The Eastern Woodrat

May 31,1804
The eastern woodrat was another animal that they found on the trip.  The first time they saw it was below the mouth of the Osage River, Missouri.  Its main range is from South Dakota to Northern Nebraska.   It is 12-17 inches in length and 7.1 - 16 oz in weight.

The Channel Catfish

                                                          July 24, 1804
Hello friends i will have many of the animals that Lewis and Clark discovered on their great expedition though America.

One of the first animals that they found was the channel catfish. We found it along the Missouri River at Camp white Catfish: above the mouth of the Platte River, Iowa.  The catfish's range today is Southern Quebec west to Southern Alberta: central United States but it is widely introduced. 

Squad

Sam, is a good cook and would cook every meal for everybody on the corps.

He would also be a good friend to cheer people up on the corps.  He would also like to find the oldest tree dating up to 12000 years and animal called a Flapasorus.  

Chris, would be a great cook assistant and he could play the violin for everybody in the corps to cheer them up and take away their depression.  He would also have a lot of patience for people and the whole trip.  He would like to find new foods and many other things.

Erin would help us by braiding hair and just helping people out.  She would be in charge of collecting new kinds of rocks for Jefferson.  

Katie,is a artist and a cook.  She can also play the guitar and canoe.  She would like to collect new rocks recipes and plants and animals.

Maddy has many talents one of those being are she could use her talents to paint the scenery and new people we meet.  She can also fish and cook.

Alex,  He can help us by carrying his own wait or weight.  He would be in charge of songs on the trip. 

Will, can help us by play his many musical instruments to entertain us on the trip.   He would like to find adventure on the trip.

Emily d  would help us by braiding hair, babysitting playing music and cooking.  She would like to find new kinds of weather on the trip.

Jessica, could play the guitar to cheer us up and she would be responsible for collecting sea glass and ancient artifacts on the trip.

Nike,  can make clothes on the trip for people if the climate should change and she can ride horses.  She can cook mostly everything from chicken to fish.  

Graham can help navigate on the trip but he can also cook and work.  Graham would be in charge of collecting new herbs and spices for his meals on the trip.