Journal entry · January 4, 1805
Fort Mandan (winter) — John Ordway: January 4, 1805
John Ordway · Fort Mandan (winter) · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
went down the River a hunting, the afternoon blustry. Some
of the hunters returned had killed one buffalow calf & one woolf.
1 Probably Rivet, whose unique accomplishment was noted by Ordway on
November 27. Coues relates that this statement “startled” Biddle, and suggests,
by way of explanation, that the Frenchman danced on his hands, head downward.
176 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Jan. 5
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