Journal entry · November 16, 1804

Fort Mandan, North Dakota — John Ordway: November 16, 1804

John Ordway · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)

with frost which was verry course white & thick even on the Bows
of the trees all this day. Such a frost I never Saw in the States,
we continued building, raised a provision & Smoak house 24 feet
by 14 f. the air verry thick with fogg from the R.

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