Journal entry · August 15, 1806
Down Missouri, approaching Mandan villages — John Ordway: August 15, 1806
John Ordway · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
the party went at dressing themselves deer Skins &C. the na-
tives brought us corn and beans &C. they brought us a break-
fast of boild siniblins & beans &C. the 2 village of Mandans gave
us Considerable of corn and more than we would take away.
Cap* Clark went over and tryed to perswade Some of the chief of
that village to go down with us but they could not find any one
willing to go with us. the chiefs of the 1st village wished us to
1 “a little below the enterance of Shabonos Creek.” Clark.
2 The camp was “at the entrance of Myry river.” Clark. Ordway’s
“long distance” is estimated by Clark at eighty-six miles. The M. R. C. map
agrees closely with Clark’s statement, showing the length of the day’s journey
as a little over eighty miles.
390 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Aug. 16
Stay 1 or 2 days longer with them we gave the Swivvel to the
Big Belleys or Grousevauntars.1
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The NPS atlas for this night
Hidatsa village (coords) Fort. Mandan area, ND (location uncertain, per NPS)
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of August 14 to August 16, 1806
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- Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · National Historic Landmark · 1.2 mi
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