Journal entry · February 20, 1805
Fort Mandan, preparing for departure — Patrick Gass: February 20, 1805
Patrick Gass · Fort Mandan, preparing for departure · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
and sleds to bring home our meat; and had gone down about
25 miles when a party of Indians (they did not know of what
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nation) came upon them and robbed them of their horses one
of which they gave back, and went off without doing the men
any further injury. The same night the men came back and
gave information of what had happened. At midnight Cap-
tain Lewis called for twenty volunteers who immediately turned
out. Having made our arrangements, we set out early accom-
panied by some Indians ; and having marched thirty miles
encamped in some Indian huts.
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Fort Mandan, ND (left shore)
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of February 1 to February 28, 1805
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- Fort Mandan (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 0.6 mi
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