pachico-roots

Updated: June 22, 2025

Independently of their fondness for them as an ornament, these beads are the medium of trade, by which they obtain from the Indians still higher up the river, robes, skins, chappelel bread, bear-grass, etc. Those Indians in turn employ them to procure from the Indians in the Rocky Mountains, bear-grass, pachico-roots, robes, etc.

Noah Brooks - First Across the Continent : The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6