Journal entry · November 5, 1804
Clark: November 5, 1804
William Clark · Fort Mandan, North Dakota
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): left shore, Fort Mandan, ND
5th November Monday 1804 I rose verry early and commenced raising the 2
range of Huts the timber large and heavy all to Carry on Hand Sticks,
Cotton wood & Elm Som ash Small, our Situation Sandy, great numbers of
Indians pass to and from hunting a Camp of Mandans, A fiew miles below us
Cought within two days 100 Goat, by Driveing them in a Strong pen,
derected by a Bush fence widening from the pen &c. &. the Greater
part of this day Cloudy, wind moderate from the N. W. I have the Rhumitism
verry bad, Cap Lewis writeing all Daywe are told by our interpeter
that 4 Ossiniboin Indians, have arrived at the Camps of the Gross Venters
& 50 Lodges are Comeing
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The NPS atlas for this night
left shore, Fort Mandan, ND
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of November 2 to November 30, 1804
NPS sites within 5 miles of this camp
- Fort Mandan (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 0.3 mi
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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