Journal entry · December 28, 1804
Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: December 28, 1804
Patrick Gass · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
went down the river to hunt with our men. In the evening
one of our interpreters and another Frenchman who had gone
with him to the Assiniboins for fur returned. They had their
faces so badly frost bitten that the skin came off; and their
guide was so badly froze that they were obliged to leave him
with the Assiniboins. This nation lives near the Rocky Moun-
tains, and about 90 miles from fort Mandan.*
*It is presumed, no part of the great chain of Rocky Mountains comes as near as
90 miles to fort Mandan; but it is not improbable that there may be a mountain,
connected with them, which runs a considerable distance eastward along the great
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left shore, Fort Mandan, ND
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of December 1 to December 31, 1804
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