Journal entry · December 16, 1804
Fort Mandan, North Dakota — John Ordway: December 16, 1804
John Ordway · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
the Mandan Village 4 men came here which belonged to the
N.W. Compy of Traders, which are now at the Mandans & Grovan-
tiars. came for the purpose of tradeing for their Robes & furs, &.C.
1 The game whose description follows was :i species of billiards. It was in
great favor among n cumber of the Missouri River tribes of Indians, and num-
erous descriptions of it have been left by travelers. See Twenty-fourth Annual
Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, 1907), 511-13.
1804] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 173
Some of our men got some Tobacco from them, they remained
with [us] all night.1
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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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