Fort Mandan (winter) — Patrick Gass: January 18, 1805
Patrick Gass and other men went down the river to hunt. That evening, one of the expedition's interpreters returned along with another Frenchman who had accompanied him on a fur-trading trip to the Assiniboin people. Both men had suffered severe frostbite, with skin peeling from their faces. Their guide was so badly frozen that they had been forced to leave him behind with the Assiniboins, a nation said to live near the Rocky Mountains, roughly 90 miles from Fort Mandan.
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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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 Assiniboines for fur returned. They had their faces so badly frostbitten that the skin came off; and their guide was so badly frozen that they were obliged to leave him with the Assiniboines. This nation lives near the Rocky Mountains, and about 90 miles from Fort Mandan.*
*It is presumed that 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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