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Journal entry · May 9, 1805

Missouri River Breaks area — Patrick Gass: May 9, 1805

Patrick Gass · Missouri River Breaks area · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition

The place today: Missouri River Breaks area

ing gone five miles were obliged to halt and lie by during the
day, on account of hard wind. Some small showers of rain
occasionally fell. Here we killed some deer and buffaloe and
took some beaver.

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left shore, 5 mi south of Fort Peck, mouth of Duck Creek, MT

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About 23.9 miles of travel mapped this day (NPS’s reconstruction of the course)

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