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Journal entry · October 15, 1804
Missouri River approaching Cannonball River — Joseph Whitehouse: October 15, 1804
Joseph Whitehouse · Missouri River approaching Cannonball River · Thwaites Vol. Thwaites Vol 7
The place today: Missouri River approaching Cannonball River
rained all last night. we Set off eairly
1 The entries for the dates October 10 to 15 inclusive have inthe MS. been crossed
out with pen-marks. — Ep.
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1804] WHITEHOUSE’S JOURNAL
CuarpTeErR V
AMONG THE MANDANS
November 1 1804—January 20, 1805
November thur. 1 1804.1
HE wind blew So fresh from the South that we Could
not Get Under Way at the time appointed as the
Officers Intended falling down the the river before two
oclock P. M., to the place that the[y] wish? to build a fort.
at dark we ariv? with the boat and Peirouges 9% Miles below
the 2°* vilage of Mandans at a piece of woods On the N. E.
Side whare we Commenced building the fort.
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left shore, 3 mi N of Fort Yates, ND
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About 10.7 miles of travel mapped this day (NPS’s reconstruction of the course)
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