Journal entry · December 28, 1804

Clark: December 28, 1804

William Clark · Fort Mandan, North Dakota

That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): left shore, Fort Mandan, ND

28th of December Friday 1804 blew verry hard last night, the frost fell
like a Shower of Snow, nothing remarkable to day, the Snow Drifting from
one bottom to another and from the leavel plains into the hollows &c

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left shore, Fort Mandan, ND

NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of December 1 to December 31, 1804

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Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.

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