Fort Mandan, ND Lacking fresh meat, Drouillard is sent on horseback to find out what is delaying the hunters. Having participated the previous night in a “Serimoney of adoption,” few Indians visit the fort. Two French trappers return with twenty or more beaver.
Beaver Trap
From the Bud Clark collection. Photo © 2011 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Searching for Hunters
a Snowey morning. one man Sent down the River in order to meet the pearogue [pirogue] & h. See what was the cause of their delaying So long.
—John Ordway
A Quiet Day
only two [Mandan] Indians visit us to day Owing to a Dance at the Village last night in Concluding a Serimoney of adoption, and interchange of property, between the Ossiniboins [Assiniboines], [Cree] and the nations of this neighbourhood—
—William Clark
Trapping Beaver
this evening 2 french men who were traping below Came up—with 20 beaver we are compelled to use our Pork which we doe Spearingly for fear of Some falur in precureing a Sufficiency from the Woods.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Ther. at rise
Weather Wind at Thert. at 4 P.M. Weather Wind at 4 P.M. River 24 snow S E 32 cloudy after snow S E rise 1 ft —Meriwether Lewis[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.
Fort Mandan is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The North Dakota Department of Parks and Recreation manages a modern reconstruction and the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center located at US Hwy 83 and ND Hwy 200A.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. A unit of the National Park System, the site is located at 564 County Road 37, one-half mile north of Stanton, North Dakota. It has exhibits, trails, and a visitor center.
Notes
| ↑1 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations. |
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