Last night about 12 oclock it began to snow. We renewed our march early, though the morning was very disagreeable, and proceeded over the most terrible mountains I ever beheld.
--Patrick Gass
September 16, 1805
I have been wet and as cold in every part as I ever was in my life. Indeed I was at one time fearful my feet would freeze in the thin mockersons which I wore.
--William Clark
I find myself growing weak from the want of food and most of the men complain of a similar deficiency, and have fallen off very much.
--Meriwether Lewis
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