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Journal entry · October 5, 1804
Missouri River near Cheyenne River — Patrick Gass: October 5, 1804
Patrick Gass · Missouri River near Cheyenne River · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
clear and pleasant. About 11 we saw some goats swimming
the river, when one of our hunters ran up the shore and killed
four of them, and we took them into the boat and periogues
as they floated down. We passed a creek on the north side,
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called Hidden creek, and high black bluffs on the south side.*
Some of our hunters having gone on an island to hunt scared
a prairie wolf into the river, which we killed. We passed a
creek on the south side called White Goat creek and encamped
on the north side.
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