Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: December 27, 1804

generally very cold; but our hunters were frequently out.
One of them killed a beautiful white hare. These animals are
said to be plenty. We killed a small buffaloe, 3 elk, 4 deer
and two or three wolves. Three of the hunters going to a
distance down the river, killed nothing for two days, but a
wolf, which they were obliged to eat; and said they relished
it pretty well, but found it rather tough. A number of the
natives being out hunting in a very cold day, one of them
gave out on his return in the evening; and was left in the
plain or prairie covered with a buffaloe robe. After some
time he began to recover and removed to the woods, where
he broke a number of branches to lie on, and to keep his
body off the snow. In the morning he came to the fort, with
his feet badly frozen, and the officers undertook his cure.