Fort Mandan (winter)

October 27, 1804 Arrival at the Mandan Villages: Three Views of a Diplomatic Threshold October 28, 1804 Wind on the Missouri: Three Pens Record a Postponed Council October 29, 1804 Three Voices at the Mandan Council: Ceremony, Wind, and a Prairie Fire October 30, 1804 Scouting an Island, Sounding the Mandan Council October 31, 1804 A Robe, a Pipe, and Nine Bushels of Corn: Diverging Accounts of a Mandan Council November 1, 1804 Choosing Ground: The Day the Corps Found Its Winter November 3, 1804 Raising Fort Mandan: Three Voices on a Single Day’s Work November 5, 1804 Two Camps, Two Calendars: Construction at Fort Mandan and a Phantom River Downstream November 6, 1804 Northern Lights and Departing Boatmen at the Mandan Winter Camp November 7, 1804 Three Hands at Fort Mandan: Construction, Weather, and a Misplaced Memory November 8, 1804 Three Englishmen, Cottonwood, and a Vanished Hat: Divergent Concerns at Fort Mandan November 9, 1804 Frost, Cottonwood, and a White Weasel: Three Voices at Fort Mandan November 10, 1804 Three Hands at Fort Mandan: Construction, Diplomacy, and a Misplaced Memory November 11, 1804 Robes, Rations, and a Wandering Horseman: Three Voices at Fort Mandan November 12, 1804 Big White’s Gift and the Memory of a Vanished Nation November 13, 1804 Ice in the River: Three Accounts of a Cold Day at Fort Mandan November 14, 1804 Trappers, Treaties, and a Telling Date Discrepancy at Fort Mandan November 15, 1804 Ice on the Missouri: Three Voices at the Threshold of Winter November 16, 1804 Frost, Fort-Building, and a Pistol Refused at Fort Mandan November 17, 1804 Four Pens at Fort Mandan: Construction, Hunting, and Natural History on a Cold November Saturday November 18, 1804 Three Frames at Fort Mandan: Diplomacy, Construction, and the Hunt November 19, 1804 A Pirogue Returns: Counting Game and Comparing Ledgers at Fort Mandan November 20, 1804 Moving Day at Fort Mandan — and a Journal Out of Step November 21, 1804 Stone for Chimneys, A River Still Open: Three Voices at Fort Mandan November 22, 1804 Corn, Chimneys, and a Domestic Crisis at Fort Mandan November 23, 1804 Stone, Rope, and a Misplaced Memory: Three Voices at Fort Mandan November 24, 1804 Three Journals, Three Worlds: A Single Day at Fort Mandan November 25, 1804 Two Expeditions on One Page: Diplomacy at Fort Mandan and a Periogue Standoff Misremembered November 26, 1804 Two Days, Two Narrators: A Calendar Discrepancy at Fort Mandan November 27, 1804 Three Views from Fort Mandan: Diplomacy, Dance, and a Lost Anchor November 28, 1804 Snow, Sovereignty, and a Misplaced Memory at Fort Mandan November 29, 1804 Snow, a Dislocated Shoulder, and a British Trader: Three Views from Fort Mandan November 30, 1804 A Call to Arms at Fort Mandan: Three Accounts of the Sioux Raid Response December 1, 1804 Pickets, Pipes, and a Scotsman: Three Views of a December Day at Fort Mandan December 2, 1804 A Cheyenne Pipe at Fort Mandan: Three Registers of a Diplomatic Visit December 3, 1804 Four Pens, Four Forts: Divergent Records from a December Day at Mandan December 4, 1804 The Black Cat Visits, and a Bastion Rises: Three Pens on December 4, 1804 December 5, 1804 Three Posts, Three Realities: A Winter Day at Fort Mandan December 6, 1804 Three Pens, Two Winters: Diverging Records at Fort Mandan December 7, 1804 The Big White’s Summons: Three Accounts of a Mandan Buffalo Chase December 8, 1804 Forty-Two Degrees Below Freezing: Three Accounts of a Buffalo Hunt December 9, 1804 Loaded Horses and Frozen Bottoms: Three Accounts of a Mandan Hunt December 10, 1804 Proof Spirits Frozen Solid: Three Accounts of a Brutal Cold Snap at Fort Mandan December 11, 1804 Twenty-One Below at Fort Mandan: Three Accounts of a Frozen Hunt December 12, 1804 Thirty-Eight Below at Fort Mandan: Three Views of a Killing Cold December 13, 1804 Two Buffaloe and a Frozen Horizon: Three Voices at Fort Mandan December 14, 1804 A Cold Hunt Down River: Three Accounts of Clark’s Buffalo Search December 15, 1804 Empty-Handed Hunters and a Mandan Game on Frozen Ground December 16, 1804 Three Accounts of a Visit from the North West Company December 17, 1804 Forty-Three Below and a Promise of Buffalo December 18, 1804 Cold Refusals and a Stolen Horse: Four Views from Fort Mandan December 19, 1804 Pickets, Pelts, and Paper: Four Pens at Fort Mandan December 20, 1804 A Mild Day at the Pickets: Routine, Register, and a Misplaced Entry December 21, 1804 A Warm Day at Fort Mandan: Reconciliation, Medicine, and the Architecture of an American Post December 22, 1804 Trade at the Pickets: Four Pens on a Mandan Market Day December 23, 1804 Pickets and Pumpkins: A Day of Trade at Fort Mandan December 24, 1804 Christmas Eve at Fort Mandan: Three Views of a Garrison on the Eve of a Holiday December 25, 1804 Christmas at Fort Mandan: Four Voices on a Single Frolic December 26, 1804 Three Views from Fort Mandan: Dancing, Diplomacy, and Stolen Horses December 27, 1804 Bellows, Floorboards, and a Frozen Hunter: Three Views of Fort Mandan December 28, 1804 Frostbite, Drifting Snow, and a Stranded Guide: Three Voices at Fort Mandan December 29, 1804 Frost, Forge, and a Stolen Knife: Three Voices at Fort Mandan December 30, 1804 Trade, Bellows, and Badgers: Three Voices at Fort Mandan December 31, 1804 Sand on Ice, Corn for Iron: Three Views from Fort Mandan’s Last Day of 1804 January 1, 1805 New Year’s at the Mandan Village: Four Views of a Diplomatic Dance January 2, 1805 Frolicking at the Second Village: Three Views of a Mandan New Year January 3, 1805 A Failed Hunt and a Woman Seeking Refuge January 4, 1805 Three Registers at Fort Mandan: Weather, Trade, and a Captain’s Complaint January 5, 1805 A Wolf, a Map, and the Buffalo Dance: Three Voices at Fort Mandan January 7, 1805 Cold, Cartography, and the Big White Chief: Four Voices at Fort Mandan January 8, 1805 A Quiet Tuesday at Fort Mandan: Three Pens, Three Scales of Attention January 9, 1805 Twenty-One Below: Frostbite, Lost Hunters, and a Missing Boy at Fort Mandan January 10, 1805 Seventy-Two Degrees Below Freezing: A Boy’s Frozen Feet at Fort Mandan January 11, 1805 Hunters, Visitors, and a Sick Wife: Routine and Diplomacy at Fort Mandan January 12, 1805 Frozen Faces and Fresh Elk: Four Voices at Fort Mandan January 13, 1805 Scarcity, Diplomacy, and a Frostbitten Return at Fort Mandan January 14, 1805 Frostbite on the Plains: Four Voices on a Single Day at Fort Mandan January 15, 1805 An Eclipse, a Thaw, and a Diplomatic Smoke at Fort Mandan January 16, 1805 Three Villages, Three Vantages: Diplomacy and Daily Life at Fort Mandan January 17, 1805 Zero at the Thermometer: Three Registers of a Mandan Winter January 18, 1805 Four Pens at Fort Mandan: Traders, Hunters, and a Mystery Animal January 19, 1805 Three Horses Down the Ice: Provisioning and Departures at Fort Mandan January 20, 1805 Buffalo Heads, Stewed Fruit, and Considerable Corn: Three Voices at Fort Mandan January 21, 1805 Returning Hunters, Trading Wolves, and a Misplaced Whitehouse January 22, 1805 Ice, Water, and Wandering Entries: A Fort Mandan Day in Disarray January 23, 1805 Four Pens, Four Winters: Divergent Records from a Single Cold Day January 24, 1805 Empty Game Bags and the Quiet Work of Coal Wood January 25, 1805 Ice, Coal Wood, and Assiniboine Visitors: Three Views from Fort Mandan January 26, 1805 Four Hands at Fort Mandan: Iron, Corn, Pleurisy, and the Sun January 27, 1805 Frozen Hulls and Frostbitten Toes: Labor and Medicine at Fort Mandan January 28, 1805 Ice, Iron, and Illness: Two Views from a Stalled Fort Mandan January 29, 1805 Stones That Would Not Stand the Fire: A Failed Experiment at Fort Mandan January 30, 1805 Stones, Visitors, and Stray Pages: Three Voices at Fort Mandan January 31, 1805 A Boy’s Toes and a Hunter’s Pleurisy: Three Voices at Fort Mandan February 1, 1805 One Deer, Three Ledgers: Diplomacy and Domesticity at Fort Mandan February 2, 1805 A Quiet Saturday at Fort Mandan: Three Pens, Three Priorities February 3, 1805 Ice, Iron Spikes, and a Hunt Downriver: Divided Labors at Fort Mandan February 4, 1805 A Hunt Down the Frozen Missouri: Three Voices on a Mandan Winter Crisis February 5, 1805 Iron, Corn, and Curious Axes: The Blacksmith Trade at Fort Mandan February 6, 1805 Sheet Iron for Corn: Diplomacy and Provision at Fort Mandan February 7, 1805 A Lock on the Fort Gate: Discipline and Diplomacy at Fort Mandan February 8, 1805 The Black Cat’s Visit: Diplomacy and Hunger at Fort Mandan February 9, 1805 Scaling the Walls: Discipline and Daily Labor at Fort Mandan February 10, 1805 A Scaled Wall and a Forgiven Lash: Discipline and Weather at Fort Mandan February 12, 1805 Horses, Hunters, and Hungry Wolves at Fort Mandan February 13, 1805 Two Registers at Fort Mandan: A Hunter’s Ordeal and a Diplomat’s Gift February 14, 1805 Three Pens, One Robbery: Reporting the Sioux Encounter Below Fort Mandan February 15, 1805 Pursuit on the Ice: Three Accounts of the Sioux Raid Below Fort Mandan February 16, 1805 Two Vantages on a Cold Pursuit: Sioux Raiders Above Fort Mandan February 17, 1805 Two Registers at Fort Mandan: A Hunter’s Tally and a Captain’s Ledger February 18, 1805 Two Camps, One Expedition: Meat Pens and Map-Making on the Knife River February 19, 1805 Sleds, Smiths, and Silent Returns: Three Voices at Fort Mandan February 20, 1805 Three Vantage Points on a February Day at Fort Mandan February 21, 1805 Three Returns to Fort Mandan: Meat, Weather, and a Speaking Stone February 22, 1805 Clearing Ice from the Perogues: Two Voices on a Fort Mandan Workday February 23, 1805 Cutting the Pirogues Free: Three Voices on a Day of Ice and Iron February 24, 1805 Freeing the Boat: Two Accounts of Breaking Ice at Fort Mandan February 25, 1805 Hauling the Boat: Broken Cordage and Diplomatic Visits at Fort Mandan February 26, 1805 Raising the Barge: Three Voices on a Day of Hard Labor at Fort Mandan February 27, 1805 Pirogues, Maps, and a Giant Visitor: Three Views of a Working Day at Fort Mandan February 28, 1805 News from the Arikara: Three Accounts of a Sioux War Warning March 1, 1805 Three Hands at Fort Mandan: Labor, Logistics, and a Captain’s Map March 2, 1805 Forge Smoke and Company News: Two Views from Fort Mandan March 3, 1805 Coal, Cordage, and Courtesy Calls at Fort Mandan March 4, 1805 Two Pens at Fort Mandan: Trade Diplomacy and a Stolen-Horse Skirmish March 5, 1805 Routine and Diplomacy at Fort Mandan: Two Registers of a Quiet March Day March 6, 1805 Smoke on the Plains: Two Views from Fort Mandan March 7, 1805 A Fort in Motion: Industry, Diplomacy, and a Rival Company’s Gift March 8, 1805 Corn for Iron, and a Daughter Reclaimed: Two Registers at Fort Mandan March 9, 1805 Two Views of a Diplomatic Visit: The Hidatsa Chief at Fort Mandan March 10, 1805 Two Registers at Fort Mandan: Ordway’s Brevity and Clark’s Ethnographic Reach March 11, 1805 Two Pirogues and a Wavering Interpreter March 12, 1805 A Disputed Engagement and a Rising River: Two Views from Fort Mandan March 13, 1805 North West Company Visitors and the Blacksmiths’ Forge at Fort Mandan March 14, 1805 Departures and Defections at Fort Mandan March 15, 1805 Airing Goods at Fort Mandan: A Day of Preparation Under Indian Eyes March 16, 1805 The Secret of the Glass Beads: Three Witnesses at Fort Mandan March 17, 1805 Charbonneau Reconsiders: Two Accounts of a Reluctant Interpreter’s Return March 18, 1805 Eight Equal Packs and a Distant Massacre: Provisioning Fort Mandan March 19, 1805 Pirogues Finished, a Sick Child, and Whispers of War March 20, 1805 Hauling the Canoes: Two Views of a Single Day’s Labor at Fort Mandan March 21, 1805 Pumice, Furnaces, and the Fort Mandan Field Laboratory March 22, 1805 Investing a Second Chief: Diplomacy and Diversion at Fort Mandan March 24, 1805 Cages, Vocabularies, and the First Rain of Winter March 25, 1805 Steering Oars and Drifting Ice: The Final Push from Fort Mandan March 26, 1805 Ice on the Move: Two Views of a Near-Disaster at Fort Mandan March 27, 1805 Ice and Industry at Fort Mandan: Two Voices on the Eve of Departure March 28, 1805 Pitch, Poles, and Floating Buffalo: Final Preparations at Fort Mandan March 29, 1805 Ice, Rain, and Floating Buffalo: Three Voices at Fort Mandan on the Eve of Departure March 30, 1805 Ice, Fire, and Departure: Three Views from Fort Mandan March 31, 1805 Thinning Ice and High Spirits: Three Voices on the Eve of Departure April 1, 1805 First Rain Since October: Launching the Craft at Fort Mandan April 2, 1805 Cargo, Correspondence, and a Chief’s Departure: Three Views of Fort Mandan’s Final Days April 3, 1805 Cargo Manifests and Candid Confessions: Three Voices on the Eve of Departure April 5, 1805 Loading the Pirogues: Three Voices on the Eve of Departure April 6, 1805 A Day’s Delay at Fort Mandan: Three Accounts of an Arikara Rumor August 14, 1806 Return to the Mandan Villages: Three Registers of a Reunion August 15, 1806 The Sioux in the Road: Why No Mandan Chief Would Travel to Washington August 16, 1806 A Swivel Gun, a Chief’s Departure, and Three Ledgers of the Same Day