Journal entry · November 4, 1804
John Ordway: November 4, 1804
John Ordway · Fort Mandan, near Washburn, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Fort Mandan, near Washburn, ND
morning, clear and pleasant, we continued raiseing our huts.
Several more of our french hands is discharged3 and one makeing
a pearogue in order to descend the Missourie & Several of the
natives come to our camp to see us build our huts, and to See our
boats &. C. we got one line of our huts raised So that we got the
Eve Beames on & all of large Timber So that it took all the men
hard lifting to put the 16 foot eve Beames.
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The NPS atlas for this night
left shore, Fort Mandan, ND
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of November 2 to November 30, 1804
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- Fort Mandan (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 0.3 mi
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