Journal entry · November 29, 1804
Fort Mandan, North Dakota — John Ordway: November 29, 1804
John Ordway · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
about 12 Inches on a level, a cold frosty clear morning. 2 or 3
men out hunting, the River fell ab* 2 feet last night So that
our Boat lay dry on Shore, we took out the mast & every thing
1 It was made of “9 strans of Elk skin.” Clark, November 24.
2 “to see the Indians in the different Towns & camps in this neighbourhood.”
Clark.
3 Rivet was one of the Frenchmen who had been picked up by the expedi-
tion at the mouth of Cannon Ball River, October 18. He spent the winter
at Fort Mandan, returning as far as the Arikara villages with the party sent
back to St. Louis when winter quarters were broken up, in April, 1805.
168 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Nov. 30
which was in hir & let hir lay as She appeared to be Safe, one
of the hunters killed an old Elk bro4 in the horns which were
verry large, but it being poor we did not go for the meat.
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left shore, Fort Mandan, ND
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