Notes+on+Lewis+and+Clark's+Journey+with+the+Animals+out+West

Animal:


 * //__Columbian Black-Tailed Deer__//**

First Noted by Expedition(FNE): November 19th, 1805, north of Cape Disappointment, Pacific County, Washington. Description: Stocky bodies, with long slim, sturdy legs. Tail blackish or brown above Habitat: Mixed Habitats: forest edges, mountains, and foothills. Range: Pacific coast from British Columbia to northern California.

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 * //__Shira's Moose:__//**

FNE: May 10th, 1805, at Milk River, Montana. Descrip.: Largest cervid in the world. Long, dark brown hair. High, humped shoulders; long legs. Male has massive palmate antlers. Habitat: Spurce forest, swamps, and aspen and willow thickets. Range: Most of Canada; in the East south to Maine, Minnesota, and Isle Royale in Lake Superior; in the West, Alaska, northern British Columbia, and the southeast through Rocky Mountains to northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado.

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 * //__Audubon's Mountain Sheep__//**

FNE: April 16th, 1805, near the mouth of the Yellowstone River, McKenzie County, North Dakota. Range: Western Dakota and part of eastern Montana. Endangered Status: Extinct. Last sightings around 1890.

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 * //__Pronghorn Antelope__//**

FNE: September 14th, 1804, near mouth of Ball Creek, Lyman County, South Dakota. Descript.: Upper body pale tan or reddish tan; chest, belly, inner legs, cheeks, and lower jaw, sides, and rump patch are white. Habitat: Grasslands, grassy brushlands, and particularly bunchgrass-sagegrass areas. Range: Southeastern Oregon, southern Idaho, southern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, Montana, and western North Dakota south to Arizona and western Texas.

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 * //__Mule Deer__//**

FNE: September 17th, 1804, below present-day Chamberlain, South Dakota. Descript.: Stocky body, with long, slim, sturdy legs. Tail white above and tipped with black. Habitat: Mixed habitats: forest edges, mountains, and foothills. Range: Southern Yukon and western Northwest Territories (Mackenzie disrtict) south through western U.S. to Wisconsin and western Texas.

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 * //__Coyote__//**

FNE: September 18th, 1804, in present- day Chamberlain, South Dakota. Descript.: Grizzled gary or orangish gray above, with buff underpants. Long rusty or yellowish legs. Bushy tail with balck tip. Habitat: In West, open plains; in East, brushy areas. Range: Generally common throughout eastern and southern Alaska, southern and western Canada, and all of western U.S., but has extended its range into entire U.S.

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 * //__White-Tailed Deer__//**

FNE: May 19th, 1804, at St. Charles, Missouri. Descript.: Size varies greatly; a small to medium-size deer. Tan or reddish brown above in summer; grayish brown in winter. Belly, throat, nose band, eye ring, and inside of ears are white. Habitat: Farmlands, brushy areas, woods, and suburbs, and gardens. Range: Southern half of southern tier of Canadian provinces; most of U.S. except far southwest.

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 * //__Plains Gray Wolf__//**

FNE: May 30th, 1804, near present-day Leavenworth, Kansas. Descript.: A very large canid, usually grizzled gray, but showing great variation in color, ranging from white to black. Long, bushy tail with black tip. Habitat: Open tundra and forests. Range: Once most of North America, now only Alaska, Canada, northern Washington, northern Idaho, norhtern Montana, Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior, and northeastern Minnesota.

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 * //__Eastern Woodrat__//**

FNE: May 31st, 1804, below the mouth of the Osgae River, Missouri. Descript.: Grayish brown above; white or grayish below. Mutilcolored tail is less than half total length. Throat hairs gray at base. Habitat: Rocjy cliffs, caves, tumbled boulders in southern Illinois and elsewhere when available; Osage orange and other hedges and wooded low areas throughout South. Range: Southern South Dakota and northern Nebraska; eastern Colorado; southern Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri; south through Oklahoma and eastern Texas; and southeastward through southern states to mid-peninsular Florida.

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 * //__Channel Catfish__//**

FNE: July 14th, 1804, along the Missouri River at Camp White Catfish; above the mouth of the Platte River, Mills County, Iowa. Descript.: Sledner; back blue-gray; sides light blue to silvery with scattered dark olive to black spots; belly white; fins olive to dusky. Head wide, flat to slightly rounded above; eyes large; upper jaw overhangs lower. Habitat: Rivers and large creeks in slow to moderate current over sand, gravel, or rocks; ponds, lakes, reservoirs. Range: Southern Quebec west to southern Alberta; central and eastern central United States. Widely introduced.

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 * //__Missouri Beaver__//**

FNE: July 3rd, 1804, Iatan, Platte County, Missouri; most abundantly mentioned in Three Forks, Montana. Descript.: A very large, bulky rodent, with rounded head and small, rounded ears. Dark brown fur is fine and soft. Scaly tail large, black horizontally flattened, and paddle-shaped. Habitat: Rivers, streams, marshes, lakes, and ponds. Range: Most of Canada and U.S., except for most of Florida, much of Nevada, and southern California.

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 * //__Northern Raccoon__//**

FNE: June 13th, 1804, near the Chariton River, Missouri. Descript.: Usually gray-brown or orange-brown above, with much black; grayish below. Face has black mask outlined in white. Tail bushy, with four to six alternating balck-and-brown or brownish-gray rings. Habitat: Various wooded and wetland habitats; common along wooded streams. Often found in cities and suburbs as well as in rural areas. Range: Southern Canada through most of U.S. except for portions of Rocky Mountains, central Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.

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 * //__Plains Horned Toad__//**

FNE: May 18th, 1804; Lewis sent a specimen to Jefferson from St. Louis, Missouri. Descript.: Flat-bodied lizard with large crown of spines on head; two center spines longest. Two rows of pointed scales fringe each side. Red to yellow to gray; dark spots have light rear margins. Dark lines radiate from eye. Habitat: From sea level to 6,000 ft in dry areas, mostly open country with loose soil supporting grass, mesquite, cactus. Range: Kansas to Texas and west to southeastern Arizona. Osolated population in Louisiana; introduced in northern Florida.

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 * //__Bull Snake__//**

FNE: August 5th, 1804, near the mouth of the Niobrara, Nebraska. Descript.: A large yellowish snake with 41 or more black, brown, or reddish-brown body blotches, dark line from eye to angle of jaw. Habitat: Many habitats from sea level to mountains. Range: Southern Alberta to southern and central Wisconsin and western Indiana, south through central and western Texas to northeastern Mexico.

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 * //__Black-Billed Magpie__//**

FNE: September 16th, 1804, near site of present-day Chamberlain, South Dakota. Descript.: Large balck-and-white bird with long tail and dark bill. Bill, head, breast, and underparts black, with green iridescence on wings and tail. White belly and shoulders; white primaries conspicuous as white wing patches in flight. Habitat: Open woodlands, savannas, brush-covered country, streamside growth. Range: Resident from Alaska and western Canada south to eas-central California and east to Great Plains.

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 * //__Black-Tailed Prairie Dog__//**

FNE: September 7th, 1804, in Boyd County, Nebraska. Descript.: Large prairie dog. Pinkish brown above; whitish or buffy white below. Slim, sparsely haired tail with black tip unique among prairie dogs. Short, rounded ears; large black eyes. Habitat: Shortgrass prairies. Range: Eastern Montana and southwestern North Dakota and south to extreme southeastern Arizona, New Mexico, and northwestern Texas.

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 * //__Prairie Sharp-Tailed Grouse__//**

FNE: September 12th, 1804, in Charles Mix County, South Dakota. Descript.: Mottled with buff, slightly paler below. Tail short and pointed, with white outer tail feathers. Male has purple neck patch and yellow comb over eye; tail longer than that of a female. Habitat: Grasslands, scrub forest, and arid sagebrush. Range: Alaska east to Hudson Bay and south to Utah, northeastern New Mexico, and Michigan.

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 * //__Desert Cottontail__//**

FNE: September 15th, 1804, near the mouth of the White River, South Dakota. Descript.: Buff-brown above; white below. Nape bright rust. Moderatley long ears, sparsely furred inside. Habitat: Grasslands to creosote brush and deserts. Range: California to Texas, north to eastern Montana and southwestern North Dakota.

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 * //__White-Tailed Jackrabbit__//**

FNE: September 14th, 1804, near present-day Chamberline, South Dakota. Descript.: Buffy gray above; white or pale gray below. Tail white above and below; long ears; buff or gray on fronts; on backs, whitish with black stripe on tip. Habitat: Barren, grazed, or cultivated lands; grasslands. Range: Eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and northeastern California east through Minnesota, iowa, and Kansas.

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 * //__Long-Tailed Weasel__//**

FNE: November 9th, 1804, Fort Mandan, North Dakota- part of April 7th, 1805, shipment to President Jefferson in Washington, D.C. Descript.: A long-bodied, short-legged animal. Brown above; white to deep yellowish below. Tail long, often equal to head and body length; brown with black tip. Feet browinsh. Male weighs about twice as much as female. Habitat: Forested, brushy, and open areas, preferably near water. Range: Southern British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan south through most of U.S. except southeastern California, southeastern Nevada, and much of Arizona. Range extends southward to Bolivia.

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 * They were entering the first so-called "town" of prarie dogs in the in the Anglo-American areas which was really unknown to the country of America.
 * They didn't know what it was so they killed the prarie dog and skinned it
 * At first they tried to dig out the holes but the prarie dogs kept moving to the next burroughs so after they decided to drown them
 * It worked and finally one popped up and Lewis and Clark killed and skinned it
 * After they sent to the people in the East to show them a new animal specimen they found out West.
 * The striped-skunk also known as the Pole-cat lives near the Great Falls and lives on low cliffs
 * They feed on the offal of the Indian fishing shores
 * The Red fox is a natural predator on the mountains and hide under rocks
 * The Red fox also tried to kill the two men when they didn't see the fox's burrough and luckily they weren't harmed
 * The Silver fox is very rare because of so many people hunting them for their skins mostly
 * Lewis and Clark discovered these animals in the wood lands below the Great Falls in Colombia.

"Here comes Peter Cottontail hopping down Lewis and Clarks trail."