John Ordway: January 6, 1805
On a blustery day at the winter garrison, Private Bratton caught a fox in a steel trap. The fox had gnawed a hole through the pickets of the fort and had been entering the garrison repeatedly to scavenge bones from the area where the men butchered and divided their meat.
blustry. Bratton caught a fox in a Steel trap where it had
[gnawed] a hole through the pickets, it had freequently come
through in to the Garrison after bones where we divided meat.
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Blustery. Bratton caught a fox in a steel trap where it had gnawed a hole through the pickets. It had frequently come through into the garrison after bones where we divided meat.
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