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
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
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the lodges, with the natives themselves, and fed upon cotton
wood branches: and in this way are kept in tolerable case.
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