Journal entry · November 4, 1804
William Clark: November 4, 1804
William Clark · Fort Mandan, North Dakota · Thwaites Vol. 1, pp. 226-228
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): left shore, Fort Mandan, ND
4th November Sunday 1804 — a fine morning we continud to cut Down trees and raise our houses, a Mr. Chaubonie (Chaboneau), interpeter for the Gross Ventre nation Came to See us, and informed that [he] came Down with Several Indians from a hunting expidition up the river, to here what we had told the Indians in Council this man wished to hire as an interpiter, the wind rose this evening from the East & clouded up. Great numbers of Indians pass hunting and Some on the Return.
Source: Thwaites, Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1904–05). Public domain. Codex A. Clark’s field notes for the same day add that Charbonneau “informed us his 2 Squars were Snake Indians,” which is why the captains hired him as interpreter.
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left shore, Fort Mandan, ND
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of November 2 to November 30, 1804
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- Fort Mandan (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 0.3 mi
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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- The Lemhi Shoshone: Horse Lords of the Continental Divide
- The Hidatsa: Knife River Villagers and the Expedition’s Northern Crossroads
- Toussaint Charbonneau: The Interpreter Who Brought Sacagawea
- Raising Walls and Recording Worlds: Two Sergeants at Fort Mandan
- Sacagawea: The Shoshone Interpreter of the Corps of Discovery
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