Building Fort Mandan — Patrick Gass: November 1, 1804
The party traveled downriver searching for a suitable location to establish their winter quarters. By nightfall they had covered nine miles and made camp in a bottomland thick with cottonwood trees.
down the river, to look for a place where we could fix our
winter quarters. At dark we had descended 9 miles, and came
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to a bottom covered with cotton wood, where we encamped.
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down the river, to look for a place where we could set up our winter quarters. By dark we had traveled 9 miles, and came to a bottom covered with cottonwood, where we camped.
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