A Birth at Fort Mandan, A Hunt on the Prairie: Divergent Lenses on February 11, 1805
1805-02-11February 11, 1805, at Fort Mandan. Two published journals in this corpus record the day:…
Topic
Mandan Tribe
Analyses (48)
View allA Boy’s Toes and a Hunter’s Pleurisy: Three Voices at Fort Mandan
1805-01-31The journal entries for January 31, 1805 offer an unusually clear demonstration of how rank,…
A Call to Arms at Fort Mandan: Three Accounts of the Sioux Raid Response
1804-11-30On 30 November 1804, the newly established garrison at Fort Mandan faced its first diplomatic-military…
A Cheyenne Pipe at Fort Mandan: Three Registers of a Diplomatic Visit
1804-12-02The visit of four Cheyenne ("Shar-ha" / "Chien" / "Shian") emissaries to Fort Mandan, accompanying…
A Day’s Delay at Fort Mandan: Three Accounts of an Arikara Rumor
1805-04-06By April 6, 1805, the Corps of Discovery was poised to leave Fort Mandan after…
A Disputed Engagement and a Rising River: Two Views from Fort Mandan
1805-03-12The entries of March 12, 1805, from Fort Mandan offer a striking example of how…
A Hunt Down the Frozen Missouri: Three Voices on a Mandan Winter Crisis
1805-02-04The journals of February 4, 1805, document a single event — the departure of a…
A Lock on the Fort Gate: Discipline and Diplomacy at Fort Mandan
1805-02-07The two surviving entries for February 7, 1805 illuminate Fort Mandan from sharply different vantage…
A Pirogue Returns: Counting Game and Comparing Ledgers at Fort Mandan
1804-11-19The 19th of November 1804 finds the Corps of Discovery settling into winter quarters at…
A Quiet Saturday at Fort Mandan: Three Pens, Three Priorities
1805-02-02February 2, 1805 was, by all accounts, an unremarkable day at Fort Mandan — the…
A Quiet Tuesday at Fort Mandan: Three Pens, Three Scales of Attention
1805-01-08The entries for January 8, 1805 offer a useful case study in how three members…
A Robe, a Pipe, and Nine Bushels of Corn: Diverging Accounts of a Mandan Council
1804-10-31The journal entries for October 31, 1804, offer one of the clearest examples in the…
A Scaled Wall and a Forgiven Lash: Discipline and Weather at Fort Mandan
1805-02-10The journals of John Ordway and Meriwether Lewis for February 10, 1805, were written within…
A Warm Day at Fort Mandan: Reconciliation, Medicine, and the Architecture of an American Post
1804-12-21The journal entries for December 21, 1804, illustrate how a single day at Fort Mandan…
A Wet Keg of Powder: Four Accounts of the Expedition’s First Day Beyond Fort Mandan
1805-04-08The Corps of Discovery's departure from Fort Mandan on April 8, 1805 produced a rare…
A Wolf, a Map, and the Buffalo Dance: Three Voices at Fort Mandan
1805-01-05The journal entries for January 5, 1805, present a divergence in the Fort Mandan winter…
Airing Goods at Fort Mandan: A Day of Preparation Under Indian Eyes
1805-03-15By mid-March 1805, Fort Mandan was a hive of preparation. The keelboat would soon return…
An Eclipse, a Thaw, and a Diplomatic Smoke at Fort Mandan
1805-01-15The journal entries for January 15, 1805 at Fort Mandan present a striking divergence in…
Approaching the Mandan Villages: Three Views of a River Crowded with Watchers
1804-10-25The entries of October 25, 1804, capture the Corps of Discovery within a day's travel…
Arrival at the Mandan Villages: Three Views of a Diplomatic Threshold
1804-10-27October 27, 1804 marked the Corps of Discovery's arrival at the Mandan villages near the…
Arrival at the Mandan Villages: Two Sergeants Record a Pivotal Encounter
1804-10-26The entries of October 26, 1804, mark the Corps of Discovery's approach to the Mandan…
Bellows, Floorboards, and a Frozen Hunter: Three Views of Fort Mandan
1804-12-27The entries for 27 December 1804 at Fort Mandan offer an unusually clear demonstration of…
Buffalo Heads, Stewed Fruit, and Considerable Corn: Three Voices at Fort Mandan
1805-01-20January 20, 1805, at Fort Mandan. Three published journals in this corpus record the day:…
Cargo, Correspondence, and a Chief’s Departure: Three Views of Fort Mandan’s Final Days
1805-04-02The entries of April 2, 1805 from Fort Mandan present a study in narratorial division…
Christmas at Fort Mandan: Four Voices on a Single Frolic
1804-12-25The Christmas celebration of 1804 at Fort Mandan offers an unusually clean case study in…
Christmas Eve at Fort Mandan: Three Views of a Garrison on the Eve of a Holiday
1804-12-24December 24, 1804 found the Corps of Discovery completing the picketing of their winter quarters…
Clearing Ice from the Perogues: Two Voices on a Fort Mandan Workday
1805-02-22The 22nd of February 1805 finds the Corps of Discovery still locked in at Fort…
Coal, Cordage, and Courtesy Calls at Fort Mandan
1805-03-03The entries of March 3, 1805 from Sergeant John Ordway and Captain William Clark describe…
Cold Refusals and a Stolen Horse: Four Views from Fort Mandan
1804-12-18The journal entries for December 18, 1804 offer a striking case study in how four…
Cold, Cartography, and the Big White Chief: Four Voices at Fort Mandan
1805-01-07The journal entries of January 7, 1805, offer a revealing case study in how four…
Corn for Iron, and a Daughter Reclaimed: Two Registers at Fort Mandan
1805-03-08The entries for March 8, 1805 from Sergeant John Ordway and Captain William Clark, though…
Corn, Chimneys, and a Domestic Crisis at Fort Mandan
1804-11-22The journals of November 22, 1804 offer an unusually sharp demonstration of how the expedition's…
Departures and Defections at Fort Mandan
1805-03-14By mid-March 1805, the Corps of Discovery was within weeks of abandoning Fort Mandan and…
Eight Equal Packs and a Distant Massacre: Provisioning Fort Mandan
1805-03-18The journal entries of March 18, 1805, capture Fort Mandan in the final weeks before…
Empty-Handed Hunters and a Mandan Game on Frozen Ground
1804-12-15The journal entries for December 15, 1804, illustrate how dramatically a single day at Fort…
First Contact with the Mandan: Three Views of a Diplomatic Encounter
1804-10-24The journal entries for October 24, 1804, capture the expedition's first significant meeting with the…
First Rain Since October: Launching the Craft at Fort Mandan
1805-04-01The first of April 1805 found the Corps of Discovery at Fort Mandan engaged in…
Forge Smoke and Company News: Two Views from Fort Mandan
1805-03-02The entries for 2 March 1805 from Fort Mandan offer a striking contrast in narratorial…
Four Hands at Fort Mandan: Iron, Corn, Pleurisy, and the Sun
1805-01-26The journals of January 26, 1805, offer an unusually clean cross-section of how the expedition's…
Four Pens at Fort Mandan: Construction, Hunting, and Natural History on a Cold November Saturday
1804-11-17The entries of November 17, 1804, offer an unusually clean demonstration of how four men…
Four Pens at Fort Mandan: Traders, Hunters, and a Mystery Animal
1805-01-18The journal entries for January 18, 1805 offer a useful case study in how four…
Four Pens, Four Forts: Divergent Records from a December Day at Mandan
1804-12-03The journal entries dated December 3, 1804, present a curious problem for the cross-narrator reader.…
Four Pens, One River: Departure Day Above Fort Mandan
1805-04-09April 9, 1805 finds the Corps of Discovery only one day removed from Fort Mandan,…
Four Pens, One Wounded Bear: Diverging Accounts Above the Old Mandan Village
1804-10-20The journal entries for October 20, 1804, offer an unusually rich opportunity for cross-narrator comparison.…
Freeing the Boat: Two Accounts of Breaking Ice at Fort Mandan
1805-02-24February 24, 1805, a Sunday at Fort Mandan. Two published journals in this corpus record…
Frolicking at the Second Village: Three Views of a Mandan New Year
1805-01-02The entries for January 2, 1805, offer a useful case study in how three members…
Frost, Cottonwood, and a White Weasel: Three Voices at Fort Mandan
1804-11-09The journal entries dated November 9, 1804, present an unusually clear case study in narrator…
Frost, Forge, and a Stolen Knife: Three Voices at Fort Mandan
1804-12-29The entries dated 29 December 1804 from William Clark, John Ordway, and Patrick Gass illustrate…
