These should all be distinguished from the Camas Prairie (Quamash Flats) of Lewis and Clark, which lay west of the Bitterroot Mountains.
Camas Prairie and advanced through Horse Plain at the junction of Flathead and Clark's Fork.
The better-known Camas Prairie was twenty miles below the mouth of the Jocko; the one mentioned by De Smet was apparently higher up, near the divide of the two rivers.
There were a number of small prairies in the vicinity, known as Camas from the abundance of that root (Camas esculenta).
Couse root dug in April or May; camas in June and July.
Camas and sun-flower seed mixed with salmon-heads caused in the eater great distension of the stomach.
The camasis a bulbus root, shaped much like an onion.
Same day, Colonel Camas returns to him out of Glatz; five of his men lost; and reports That Browne has had the roads torn up, that Glatz is mere ice and obstruction, and that nothing can be made of it at this season.
It was the levo-rotary veratrine of the fatal death camaswhich you used, Page," concluded Craig, as again the electric attachment clicked shut the lock on the laboratory door.
If it were veratrine derived from death camas it would point toward Page.
The sabadilla is dextro-rotary; the deathcamas is levo-rotary.
We splash through Dutch Creek, Camas Creek and many another, and as we pause to eat a frugal midday meal on the banks of one of these, we find upon a trailing limb, a dying butterfly.
Therefore we choose the Kintla Road and Camas Creek, where a large band of moose roams in the forest solitudes, hoping to reach Quartz Lakes near the Canadian line before we shall be driven back by the cold.
It always grows where the true camas is found, and much care is necessary to avoid mixing the two while gathering the roots in any considerable quantity.
The camas is both flour and potatoes for several wandering nations, and it is found in the most barren and desolate regions in greatest quantity.
So great is the esteem in which the camas is held that many of the important localities of the country in which it is found are named for it.
The camas is a small round root, not unlike an onion in appearance.
In June, when the camas is ready to gather, even the most civilized Indian on the Flathead reservation feels the nomadic impulse too strong to resist.
He packs his lodge upon ponies, and starts with his family for some camas prairie, where he is sure to meet a numerous company bent on having a good time.
There are many camas prairies, big and little, in Montana and Idaho, and they all resemble each other in being fertile green basins among the mountains, in whose moist soil the camas plant flourishes.
It's a country for men to ride hell-whooping through the sage and camas grass, with guns slung at their hips, but it's no country for a little person like you to try and carry on a feud because her father made one.
The Swedes were present, sitting together in the corner by the water bucket, and the Conleys, who lived over by Camas Creek beyond the AJ, had come.
We proceeded over the plain about twenty miles, and halted until daylight, on a fine spring, flowing into Camas Creek.
Near Camas Creek, they had an engagement with the pursuing troops.
Evidently the Indians who congregated annually at Camas Prairie were mistaken as a single tribe, and there is little further reference to such a group.
Some parties went from Camas Prairie to Jackson Hole and Yellowstone via Idaho Falls and the Snake River.
During the fall, deer were taken on Camas Prairie and in the country immediately south of the Snake River.
At the end of spring and in early summer, many of the Indians of the Boise-Weiser country traveled to Camas Prairie, where roots of various kinds were dug.
In October of the following year he visited Camas Prairie, the camas grounds in the vicinity of Fairfield, and noted a pattern of movement that is still reported by informants (p.
The sojourn on Camas Prairie lasted only about a month and the Lemhi people returned for the summer-fall salmon run.
Steward reports that they obtained horses during a trip to Camas Prairie and thereafter joined the buffalo hunt.
The two chief resources were the extremely rich root grounds at Camas Prairie, in the vicinity of Fairfield, Idaho, and the fishing sites scattered between Glenn's Ferry and Shoshone Falls.
The Shoshone of this area took part in root gathering and festivities every summer on Camas Prairie.
Across the divide between Montana and Idaho, in the vicinity of Camas Creek, they met a single Bannock lodge en route to the mountains (p.
When the salmon runs had ended, many of the Lemhi people went to Camas Prairie.
In most years Camas Prairie served as the marshalling grounds for the annual buffalo hunt.
After leaving Camas Prairie the party sometimes passed through Arco and Idaho Falls, Idaho, and then headed north over the Divide, via Monida Pass.
A further step in irrigation is the utilization of underground waters: in the Big Camas Prairie region, Blaine county, water 10 ft.
I have seen as many as 100 or more pass by our place in one day, their destination being the Camas and Kouse districts, as Camas Prairie was then called.
The settlers on Camas Prairie shared a similar fate.
They also obtained an abundance of vegetable food from the camasand couse which were common, and in fact still are in this region.
On Saturday, June 23d, we started early and traveled along the mountain until after noon when we reached the great Camas Prairie.
Blue flowers of the blooming camas covered the prairies like a lake of silver.
So starved and famished were the men that they ate inordinately of the sweet camas and the kouse, the biscuit root.
All night long their outdoor ovens were baking the bread of kouse, and the kettles of camas mush, flavoured with yamp, simmered and sweetened over the dull red Indian fires.
Everywhere Indian women were digging the camas root, round like an onion, and little heaps lay piled here and there.
A May snowstorm whitened thecamas meadows and melted again.
His silver locks were shaken by roars of laughter at their reminders of his youth, the bear hunts, the sale of buttons for camas and for kouse.
Women suffering from rheumatism, the result of toil and exposure in the damp camas fields, came dejected and hysterical.
She was with her people at their camas ground, Weippe, when Lewis and Clark came down over the Lolo trail.
Here he found three big rocks, one like a camas root, one like a salmon's head, the third like his friendly Moosmoos.
Many, many snows after, he awoke to find himself far from the summit, in a pleasant country of beautiful meadows carpeted with flowers, abounding in camas roots, and musical with the song of birds.
Eventually, however, he sold that property and removed to Camas prairie, where he again purchased land and followed farming for two years.
He passed south of the retreating bands to Camas Prairie with a view of intercepting the retreat.
He had taken up a piece of land down in the pretty Camas Valley where the grass grew long and strong and waved in the wind, mobile and beautiful as the mobile sea.
The yelling was heard in the high grass in the Camas Valley below, and the bellowing of cattle came from the woody river banks far beyond.
La Camas is the location of the most extensive paper mills in the North-west.
Hood from the vicinity of La Camas has perhaps been oftener the subject of painting than any other.
A few miles below La Camas we reach the most historic and perhaps the most beautiful spot upon the Columbia, Vancouver.
We traded for some salmon and the la camas cakes, but the crickette cakes we did not hanker after.
Madam Camas is a German Lady; but for genial elegance, for wit and wisdom and goodness, could not readily be paralleled in France or elsewhere.
For these reasons and others he likewise, probably with more study than in the Bielfeld case, despatches Colonel Camas to make his compliment at the French Court, and in an expert way take soundings there.
In time the fast talker, named Marmot, became jealous of her sister, Camas, complaining all the time that she had to do the most of the lodge work, and that she was sure Camas said bad things about her to their man.
They crossed the lake; turned and came back; crossed again and started back, Camas well in the lead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "camas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
