Journal Entry

Fort Mandan, North Dakota — John Ordway: December 29, 1804

December 29, 1804
John Ordway Fort Mandan, North Dakota Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

flower [interpreter’s floor] a Great nomber of the natives men
women & children visited us the whole day as we Got the Black-
smiths Shop fixed they Brought their Squaw axes & kittle to fix
and mend for which they Gave us corn & beans Squasshes & C.
one man who went out hunting to day killed a woolf & kept it
for the tradors who Give as much for a woolf Skin as a Beever
Skin. N. B. an Indian Stole a drawing nife. took it again.

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