Note 9 — MEMORANDOM OF THE VOIGE BY LAND FROM FORT SMITH TO THE ROCKEY MOUNTAINS.
Reading edition
From the above defective list of 20 persons, taken in connection with information regarding their names to be found further on in the book, we arrive at the following approximately correct roster of the party:
1. Colonel Hugh Glenn, in command.
2. Major Jacob Fowler, the journalist, second in command.
3. Robert Fowler, brother of Jacob Fowler.
4. Baptiste Roy, interpreter.
5. Baptiste Peno (French name, no doubt misspelled).
6. George Douglas.
7. Nathaniel Pryor, ex-Sergeant of Lewis and Clark’s Expedition.
8. —— Bono (French name, no doubt misspelled, possibly Bonhomme).
9. —— Barbo (French name, no doubt misspelled, possibly Barbu).
10. Lewis Dawson (Fatally injured by a bear, Nov 13, 1821, died Nov 16).
11. —— Taylor.
12. Richard Walters.
13. Eli Ward.
14. Jesse van Biber.
15. —— Slover.
16. —— Simpson.
17. Dudley Maxwell.
18. —— Findley.
19. Baptiste Moran.
20. Paul, a negro belonging to Jacob Fowler.
The most interesting of the above names is that of Nathaniel Pryor, of whose identity with the sergeant of Lewis and Clark I have no doubt: see L. and C., ed. of 1893, p. 254, delete the query there, and add: Nathaniel Pryor of Kentucky became an Ensign of the U. S. Army Feb 27, 1807, Second Lieutenant May 3, 1808, resigned April 1, 1810, was appointed First Lieutenant of the 44th Inf. Aug 30, 1813, promoted to be Captain Oct 1, 1814, and honorably discharged June 15, 1815. See also my article, “Letters of William Clark and Nathaniel Pryor,” in Annals of Iowa, 3d ser., Vol I, No. 8, Jan., 1895, pp. 613-620, for an account of Ensign Pryor’s disastrous attempt to convey the Mandan chief Shahaka from St. Louis, Mo., to the Mandan villages on the Missouri.