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Fort Mandan (winter) — John Ordway: January 3, 1805

January 3, 1805
John Ordway Fort Mandan (winter) Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

went out hunting this morning as the Savages Informed us that
the Buffalow were comming in towards the River, but they went
out first with their horses first & Scared them off after killing five of
them, one of our party killed a woolf they sd Saw a nomber of
buffalow. & killed one old Bull.

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