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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left shore, Fort Mandan, ND
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of November 2 to November 30, 1804
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