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Journal entry · August 30, 1806
Rapid descent of Missouri, 70-80 miles/day — Patrick Gass: August 30, 1806
Patrick Gass · Prairie dog village near present-day Chamberlain · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Prairie dog village near present-day Chamberlain
early, three hunters starting ahead. We killed some buffaloe
and elk in our way, and about 2 o’clock met a band of the
Teetons, fifty or sixty in number, and halted on the opposite
side of the river as we did not wish to have any intercourse
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with them. Here we waited for three hunters, who were be-
hind: and during our stay eight or nine of the Indians swam
to a sand bar about sixty yards from us, and we found that
they were the same rascals who had given us trouble as we
went up. We could not converse with them, but one of our
men understanding the language of the Ponis, of which they
understood some words; we through him let them know that
we wanted to have nothing to do with them; and that if they
troubled us, we would kill every one of them. They then
withdrew, and the whole party left the river and went off to
the hills. Our three hunters returned, and we proceeded on
and in the evening encamped on a sand bar in the river.
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sand bar, 2 mi above Mud Island, SD (location uncertain, per NPS)
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