Using every bucket and kettle they possessed the men formed a bucket brigade from the prairie dog town to the river. After the equivalent of five for six barrels of water had been dumped into the hole a tiny head appeared. Now Lewis had his prairie dog to send home to the president.
To further explore Lewis and Clark as well as Prairie Dogs on the Internet see:
Lewis and Clark: The Archive http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/archive/
Sacajawea http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/biog... This is a wonderful article by Mary Alward, one of Suite 101's best.
Underdogs: Prairie Dogs at Home http://www.nationalgeographic.com/burrow...
Don't Forget to Visit Our SUITE 101 UNIVERSITY: your place for online learning! A new course has been added and is now in progress: THE GREAT AMERICAN WEST, 1861 to 1876, written and instructed by Mary Trotter Kion. http://www.suite101.com/course.cfm/17161...
Major printed sources for this article are:
The Life of Prairies and Plains by Durward L. Allen. Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1967.
Adventures in the Wilderness by Rutherford Platt. Published by American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc. New York, 1963.
Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark by Barbara Fifer and Vicky Soderberg. Published by Montana Magazine, 1998.
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