quamash
Americannoun
noun
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Colter and Willard set out this morning on a hunting excurtion towards the quamash grounds beyond Collins's Creek. we begin to feel some anxiety with rispect to Sergt.
From The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by Meriwether Lewis
In early summer the best forage is on the warm hill-sides where the quamash and the Indian turnip grow.
From The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton
It is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state or boiled into a kind of soup or made into a cake, which is then called pasheco.
From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan
It is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state, or boiled into a kind of soup, or made into a cake, which is then called pasheco.
From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks
I killed a small black pheasant near the quamash grounds this evening which is the first I have seen below the snowy region.
From The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by Meriwether Lewis
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