Journal entry · December 10, 1804
Fort Mandan, North Dakota — John Ordway: December 10, 1804
John Ordway · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
& Several of the hunters returned down to their last nights camp
for meat, they returned with large loads of meat, the weather
Gits colder verry fast So that the Sentinel had to be relieved every
hour, one of the Mandan Indians who had been wounded by the
Souix came to our officers to be cured. G. Drewyer killed two
Buffalow and a deer & brought in the Deer this evening, the
weather is [blank in Ms.] degrees colder this evening than it was
this morning.1 Blanket cappoes provided for each man who
Stood in need of them &. 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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