White-Tailed Deer

May 19, 1804

              Today we saw a White - Tailed Deer at St. Charles, Missouri..  Its coat was tan and reddish brown. Its Belly, throat, nose band, eye ring, and inside of ears were white.  It was an amazing animal and i just can't wait to see more animals.  Captain Lewis said that it lives in   brushy areas, woods, and suburbs.  It lives in the southern half of the southern tier of Canadian provinces; it also lives in most of U.S. except far southwest.

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.