Journal entry · December 29, 1804
Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: December 29, 1804
Patrick Gass · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
hunters went out to join those with the natives. In the even-
ing one of the hunters that first went out, returned. They
had killed a buffaloe, a wolf and two porcupines: and one of
the men had got his feet so badly frozen that he was unable
to come to the fort.
During the 15th and 16th the weather was warm, and the
snow melted fast. Horses were sent for the Jame man, and
he was brought to the fort; his feet were not so bad as we
had expected.
On the 17th it became cold; the wind blew hard from the
north, and it began to freeze.
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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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