Quamash

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. ❋ Lewis H. Morgan (1849)

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. ❋ Unknown (1805)

Among these last is one which is round and much like an onion in appearance and sweet to the taste: it is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state, or boiled into a kind of soup or made into ❋ William Clark (1804)

For "quamash" read "camass," an edible root much prized by the Nez Percés then and now. ❋ Unknown (1805)

Amongst the sedum are clumps of Camassia quamash bulbs that were taken from under the large pine trees. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the quamash beds in May sang a perfect chorus when the wind was right: ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

In early summer the best forage is on the warm hillsides where the quamash and the Indian turnip grow. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

As he stood in doubt, he caught sight of the old Grizzly himself slouching along a hillside, stopping from time to time to dig up the quamash-roots and wild turnips. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

In early summer the best forage is on the warm hill-sides where the quamash and the Indian turnip grow. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

And the quamash beds in May sang a perfect chorus when the wind was right: "Quamash beds, Quamash beds." ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

Captain W. then asked them a number of questions, through an interpreter, relative to the route, the fishery, &c. &c., and finally bought of them a small quantity of dried salmon, and a little fermented kamas or quamash root. ❋ Unknown (1839)

Rocky Mountains brought down horses, bear-grass, quamash, and other commodities of the interior. ❋ Unknown (1836)

The pale blue flowers of the quamash gave to the level country the appearance of a blue lake. ❋ Unknown (1805)

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. ❋ Meriwether Lewis (1791)

a small black pheasant near the quamash grounds this evening which is the first I have seen below the snowy region. ❋ Meriwether Lewis (1791)

The salmon not having yet called them to the rivers, the greater part of the Chopunnish are now dispersed in villages through this plain, for the purpose of collecting quamash and cows, which here grow in great abundance, the soil being extremely fertile, in many places covered with long-leaved pine, larch, and balsam-fir, which contribute to render it less thirsty than the open, unsheltered plains. " ❋ Unknown (1805)

Ducks eat [quamash]. I'm gonna quamash you. [Quamash] is a town in [Transylvania]. [The Beatles] listened to Quamash ❋ Scrabbleiscrazy57452 (2010)