Prairie dog village near present-day Chamberlain — Patrick Gass: September 8, 1804
Clear weather and a southeast wind made for good travel as the party passed a dry creek bed. A hunter's earlier buffalo kill had been devoured by wolves, who also carried off the hat he'd left behind; a dead white wolf was found nearby, apparently killed fighting over the carcass. The group passed high bluffs to the south and burnt prairie to the north before camping on a timbered island stocked with buffalo. Captain Lewis reported finding an old trading house built in 1796. Hunters took two buffalo, two elk, a deer, and two beaver.
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,
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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.
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A clear day with a fair wind from the southeast. We passed the bed of a creek that had no water. At 9 I went out with one of our men who had killed a buffalo and left his hat behind to keep off the vermin and beasts of prey; but when we came to the place, we found that the wolves had devoured the carcass and carried off the hat. Here we found a white wolf dead, supposed to have been killed in a fight over the buffalo.
We passed high bluffs on the south side and burnt prairie on the north. We camped on an island covered with timber and having a number of buffalo on it. Captain Lewis (Capt. Lewis), who had been out hunting with some of the men, informed us he had passed a trading house built in 1796. This day we killed two buffalo, a large and a small elk, a deer, and two beaver.
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