[64] See: Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites; Lewis and Clark, Biddle edition, edited by Elliott Coues; Lewis and Clark's Journals, Biddle edition, reprint, Barnes & Co.; The Trail of Lewis and Clark, O. D. Wheeler.
[65] Journal of Voyages, Barnes edition, p. 106.
[66] $2500 were appropriated by Congress for the Lewis and Clark expedition.
[67] This was La Roque of the N.-W. Co.
[68] Pike was later captain, then major, then general. He was killed at York, Upper Canada, in the War of 1812. He was about the age of Meriwether Lewis.
[69] Charles Joseph Latrobe, a companion of Washington Irving on the plains. He wrote The Rambler in North America.
[70] About this time the Marquis Casa Calvo had given an American, Dunbar, permission to explore the Red River and Wichita country.
[71] Coues suggests that Pike was really bound for Santa Fé and fully intended to allow himself to be captured. It is possible that he had some secret compact with General Wilkinson and Aaron Burr.
[72] I find that the majority of men object to having an over-abundance of provisions, even of the staple sort. It seems often to be considered a sort of cowardice to provide for unforeseen food emergencies, yet these are the very ones which wreck expeditions. Some one compact staple should always be carried in extravagant quantity, and there are ways of doing it.
[73] See [the frontispiece]. They came down into the valley behind the left-hand peak. The exact route from Wet Mountain valley to the Rio Grande is uncertain, also the pass. See Coues on these points.