Journal entry · December 26, 1804
Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: December 26, 1804
Patrick Gass · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
who remained at the village last night, returned. Captain
Lewis, myself and some others went up to the second village
and amused ourselves with dancing, &c. the greater part of
the day. In the evening we in general returned and a great
number of the natives, men, women and children, came to see
us, and appeared highly pleased.
This day I discovered how the Indians keep their horses
during the winter. In the day time they are permitted to run
out and gather what they can; and at night are brought into
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 65
the lodges, with the natives themselves, and fed upon cotton
wood branches: and in this way are kept in tolerable case.
Entities mentioned in this entry
Auto-extracted from the entry text. Hover any entity for context.
The NPS atlas for this night
left shore, Fort Mandan, ND
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of December 1 to December 31, 1804
NPS sites within 5 miles of this camp
- Fort Mandan (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 0.3 mi
From the NPS Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas, mirrored here on September 21, 2026. This copy is not authoritative; NPS remains the system of record. About the mirror
Terrain360 · the place today
Fort Mandan (winter) in 360°
10 frames across 1.8 mi of the route around this location
Help improve this record
See something that needs correcting, or know a source we are missing? The archive gets better through its readers.
