Journal entry · January 12, 1805
Fort Mandan (winter) — Joseph Whitehouse: January 12, 1805
Joseph Whitehouse · Fort Mandan (winter) · Thwaites Vol. Thwaites Vol 7
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): Fort Mandan, ND (left shore)
continues clear & cold a nomber of the natives went down
the river to hunt, with our men. in the evening one of our
Intrepters & a frenchman returned who had been up the river
Some time to a nation of Indians called the osnaboins [Assini-
boins] after fur &c their guide got froze so that they had to
leave him their, & they got their faces frost bit So that the
Skin came off. this nation live near the rockey Mountains,
about 18 [80] or 90 miles from this place.
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The NPS atlas for this night
Fort Mandan, ND (left shore)
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of January 1 to January 31, 1805
NPS sites within 5 miles of this camp
- Fort Mandan (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 0.6 mi
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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