Journal entry · January 1, 1805
Fort Mandan (winter) — Patrick Gass: January 1, 1805
Patrick Gass · Fort Mandan (winter) · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
lages. They treated us friendly and gave us victuals. After
we were done eating they presented a bowlful to a buffaloe
head, saying ‘‘eat that.” Their superstitious credulity is so
great, that they believe by using the head well the living
dividing ridge: and on some maps a mountain is laid down running east and west,
south of the Assiniboin river and lake, which would appear to be not more than go
or 100 miles from the Mandan villages.
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 67
buffaloe will come and that they will get a supply of meat.
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Fort Mandan, ND (left shore)
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