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Journal entry · March 5, 1805

Fort Mandan, preparing for departure — John Ordway: March 5, 1805

John Ordway · Fort Mandan, preparing for departure · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

work making coal &.C. a light Squawl of Snow fell about 4 oClock
this morning, nothing extroardinary.

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