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Journal entry · April 14, 1805
Missouri River near Little Missouri — Patrick Gass: April 14, 1805
Patrick Gass · Missouri River near Little Missouri · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Missouri River near Little Missouri
morning. As we were setting out a black dog came to us,
and went along, supposed to have belonged to a band of the
Assiniboins, who had been encamped near this place a few
days ago. We passed a hill resembling a large haystack, all
but about 10 feet of the top which was as white as chalk. The
hills in general are much higher here than lower down the
river; but the bottoms much the same. In the afternoon we
passed a creek, called after our interpreter, Sharbons creek.
He had been, before, this far up the Missouri, and no white
* The maps of Louisiana place the Mandan villages west of the little Missouri ;
whereas it is ascertained by this expedition to be 92 miles higher up the Missouri
than the Mandans.
“6 GASS’S JOURNAL OF THE
man any further, that we could discover. We made 16 miles
and encamped in a handsome bottom on the North side.
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left shore, 12 mi SW of New Town, ND
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About 14.7 miles of travel mapped this day (NPS’s reconstruction of the course)
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