Journal entry · February 1, 1805
Clark: February 1, 1805
William Clark · Fort Mandan (winter)
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): Fort Mandan, ND (left shore)
1st of February Friday 1805 a cold windey Day our hunters returnd. haveing
killed only one Deer, a war Chief of the Me ne tar ras Came with Some Corn
requested to have a War hatchet made, & requested to be allowed to go
to war against the Souis & Ricarres who had Killed a mandan Some time
pastwe refused, and gave reassons, which he verry readily assented
to, and promised to open his ears to all we Said this man is young and
named (Seeing Snake Mar-book, She-ah-O-ke-ah) this mans woman Set out
& he prosued her, in the evening
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Fort Mandan, ND (left shore)
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of February 1 to February 28, 1805
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- Fort Mandan (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 0.6 mi
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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