Journal entry · November 12, 1804
Fort Mandan, North Dakota — John Ordway: November 12, 1804
John Ordway · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
frost, froze Some last night, we continued our buildings as usal.
the chief of the lower village of the Mandens brought us Some
chiefs to Washington. President Jefferson sent him back with a commission
to teach the Arikara agriculture, and to “make every enquirey” after Lewis
and Clark’s party. Clark, Sept. 12, 1806.
1 The Frenchman was Charbonneau, who served the expedition as inter-
preter from its departure from Fort Mandan in the spring of 180.”) until its
return to this vicinity in August, 1806. One of his wives, here alluded to,
was the noted Sacajawea, the heroine of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Thus
modestly does she make her entry into our story. But her modesty was equaled
by her greatness of soul; again and again in the further course of the expedition
we shall find evidences of the truth of this statement.
1804] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 165
buffalow meat1 which we were in want [of] as our hunters has
not arived yet. we unloaded the pearogue in order to fetch Stone.
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left shore, Fort Mandan, ND
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of November 2 to November 30, 1804
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