Clark returns to Fort Mandan during the night and today, records the events of his nine-day-long hunting trip. Mandan chief Posecopsahe (Black Cat) is given a war axe and appears ‘much gratified’.
Missouri-style War Axe
Taken with cooperation from the Fort Mandan Visitors’ Center. Photo © 2013 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Clark Returns
I returned last night from a hunting party much fatigued, haveing walked 30 miles on the ice and through of wood land Points in which the Snow was nearly Knee Deep
—William Clark
Black Cat’s Hatchet
The morning cloudy thermometer 2° below naught wind from S. E. visited by the Black-Cat gave him a battle ax with which he appeared much gratifyed.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Retrieving Two Elk
2 men sent 18 mls. down the River to butcher an Elk which the hunters killed yesterday and to hunt . . . . the 2 men returned had dressed the elk but killed nothing.—
—John Ordway
Weather Diary
State of the Ther. at rise
Weather Wind at Thermt. at 4 oCk. P.M. Weather Wind at 4 oCk. P.M. River 2 [below 0] cloudy S E 10 [above 0] cloudy N W fall 1 in. —Meriwether Lewis[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “State of the River at
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Notes
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