service-berries

Then, after five sleeps, suddenly before him grew a bush of service-berries which the fire had not taken.

Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians 1920

The people of these three lodges have gathered a quantity of sun-flower seed, and also of the lambs-quarter [Chenopodium], which they pound and mix with service-berries, and make of the composition a kind of bread, which appears capable of sustaining life for some time.

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

They were without food, excepting some indifferent cakes made from service-berries and choke-cherries, dried in the sun.

Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 1894

Salmon-berries and service-berries are preserved in the same way.

Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

The woods and meadows are full of them, both on the lowlands and mountains -- huckleberries of many species, salmon-berries, blackberries, raspberries, with service-berries on dry open places, and cranberries in the bogs, sufficient for every bird, beast, and human being in the territory and thousands of tons to spare.

Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

I sent my sister to madam with a large quantity of service-berries, which had been finely dried the preceding summer, together with some sweet potatoes, telling her to request madam to send me her extra moccasins, in order to lash them together with my own on my pack-dog, and to appoint a place to meet me that evening.

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth 1856

Excitement to-night made us all wakeful; and after a breakfast before sunrise the next morning, we were again on the road, and, continuing up the valley, crossed some high points of hills, and halted to noon on the same stream, near several lodges of Snake Indians, from whom we purchased about a bushel of service-berries, partially dried.

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851

We obtained from them also a considerable quantity of berries, of different kinds, among which service-berries were the most abundant; and several kinds of roots and seeds, which we could eat with pleasure, as any kind of vegetable food was gratifying to us.

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851

We met here an Indian family on horseback, which had been out to gather service-berries, and were returning loaded.

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851

In about an hour's travel we met several Shoshonee Indians, who informed us that they belonged to a large village which had just come into the valley from the mountain to the westward, where they had been hunting antelope and gathering service-berries.

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851