Lewis+&+Clark+Notes+(CG-AO-AD)


 * What animals did they meet in the Rocky Mountains?
 * Observations: They Discovered the Mountian Lion, Bighorned Sheep
 * Evidence: their journals describe their encounters.


 * What did they first call these animals?
 * Observations: Tyger Cat, Bighorned Anamals or Rock Mountain Sheep
 * Evidence: Lewis described the Mountain Lion as "a large cat of the tiger kind"
 * he first mistook it for a wolf.
 * The sheep was called a "Bighorned Anamal" at first because of its large horns but then it became the "Rock Mountain Sheep" because it lives in the Rocky Mountains


 * What was their journey through the Rockies like?
 * Observations: They traveled in the fall to winter through the mountains.
 * Evidence: It was chilly in the woods but it wasn't snowing or cold when they discover these animals.
 * The mountains were difficult to travel on with horses and other crew members but they make it


 * How did the humans react to the animals?
 * Observations:
 * Evidence: Clark wanted to kill the cat because he was convinced it was out to destroy him or she wanted to amuse herself at his expense.
 * The Mountain Sheep was hard to kill and was good at hiding within the rocks of the mountains


 * How did the animals react to the humans?
 * Observations: The Tyger Cat tried to kill Clark and the sheep tried to avoid them.
 * Evidence: the journal states [about the lion] "It now seemed to me that all the beasts of the neighbourhood had made a league to distroy me, or that some fortune was disposed to amuse herself at my expence"
 * the journal states [about the sheep] "the places they generally celect to lodge is the cranies or crevices of the rocks in the faces of inacessable precepices, where the wold nor bear can reach them and where indeed man himself would in many instancies find a similar deficiency"