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Journal entry · September 8, 1804
Prairie dog village near present-day Chamberlain — Patrick Gass: September 8, 1804
Patrick Gass · Prairie dog village near present-day Chamberlain · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
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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