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Selected music-oriented entries from the journals of Lewis & Clark Expedition. All citations come from Moulton's edition of the journals or from Jackson's Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 2nd Edition.

Event Date	Description	Author
9/26/1804	Musical Instruments of Teton Sioux	Clark
10/12/1804	Fiddle plays, horn sounds while leaving Arikaras	Ordway
11/27/1804	Dance at Fort Mandan; Rivet Dances on His Head	Ordway
12/25/1804	Christmas Party at Fort Mandan	Whitehouse, Clark, Gass, Ordway
1/1/1805	New Years 1805--Dance with Fiddle, Dance on Head	Ordway
4/26/1805	Celebration at the Mouth of the Yellowstone	Ordway
6/9/1805	Celebration at the Marias	Ordway, Whitehouse
6/25/1805	Cruzatte Fiddles During Portage (Cruzatte's fiddling complemented)	Lewis and Clark
7/4/1805	Fourth of July Celebration--Last of the Spirits/Dancing/Fiddling	Ordway
8/26/1805	Fiddling for the Shoshone	Lewis
10/9/1805	Fiddling, Dancing, and the Crazy Woman!	Whitehouse, Ordway
10/19/1805	Cruzatte Fiddles for Umatillas	Clark
10/24/1805	Cruzatte Fiddles for Chinooks	Clark
10/26/1805	Cruzatte Plays, York Dances for Chinooks	Clark
10/29/1805	"Flatheads" Pleased with Fiddle	Clark
4/16/1806	Cruzatte Plays Fiddle for Native Traders	Clark
4/23/1806	Dance with the Tenino Indians	Ordway, Lewis, Clark
4/25/1806	Fiddling and Dancing for the pas-qute-pu tribe	Ordway, Lewis, Clark
4/28/1806	Dancing, Fiddling, & Medicine Songs Among the Walula and Yakima	Ordway, Lewis
4/29/1806	Party Refuses to Dance	Lewis
5/10/1806	Dancing with Nez Perce While Waiting for Snow to Melt	Ordway
5/11/1806	Dancing with Nez Perce While Waiting for Snow to Melt	Ordway
6/8/1806	Dancing with Nez Perce Before Leaving for the Divide	Ordway, Lewis,Clark

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