Journal entry · November 17, 1804

Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Joseph Whitehouse: November 17, 1804

Joseph Whitehouse · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Thwaites Vol 7

The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)

a cold day. Serg‘ Gass fixed a horse Sled for one of the
N. W. Comp?’ traders to go to thier forts with. Some of the
Mandans come & Informed us that the buffaloe had come near
the River again.

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left shore, Fort Mandan, ND

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