Journal entry · November 8, 1804
Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: November 8, 1804
Patrick Gass · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
a clear day and fair wind from the S. E. Passed the bed of a
creek without water. At 9 I went out with one of our men,
who had killed a buffaloe and left his hat to keep off the
vermin and beasts of prey ; but when we came to the place,
30 GASS’S JOURNAL OF THE
we found the wolves had devoured the carcase and carried off
the hat. Here we found a white wolf dead, supposed to have
been killed in a contest for the buffaloe. We passed high
bluffs on the south side and burnt prairie on the north. We
encamped on an island covered with timber ; and having a
number of buffaloe on it. Captain Lewis who had been out
with some of the men hunting informed us he had passed a
trading house, built in 1796. This day we killed two buffaloe,
a large and a small elk, a deer and two beaver.
Entities mentioned in this entry
Auto-extracted from the entry text. Hover any entity for context.
The NPS atlas for this night
left shore, Fort Mandan, ND
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of November 2 to November 30, 1804
NPS sites within 5 miles of this camp
- Fort Mandan (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 0.3 mi
From the NPS Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas, mirrored here on September 21, 2026. This copy is not authoritative; NPS remains the system of record. About the mirror
Terrain360 · the place today
Fort Mandan (winter) in 360°
10 frames across 1.8 mi of the route around this location
Artwork
Help improve this record
See something that needs correcting, or know a source we are missing? The archive gets better through its readers.
