Day-by-Day / November 19, 1804

November 19, 1804

The hunters arrive

At Fort Mandan, the meat and smoke houses are completed just in time to receive what Pvt. Whitehouse estimated as two thousand pounds of bison, deer, elk, and peltry. Several Mandans visit.

Finally, the Hunters Return

by Yellowstone Public Radio[1]Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © … Continue reading

The Hunters Arrive

our hunters arived with the pearogue [Pirogue] loaded with meat consisting of 5 buffalow 11 Elk & 30 Deer also Several kinds of Small Game of which they brought the Skins, all the meat we put up on poles in the Roofs of our meat & Smoak houses.—
John Ordway

Indian Stories

a Cold day the ice Continue to run . . . . Several Indians here all day— Several little Indian aneckdts. [anecdotes] told me to day
William Clark

 

Weather Diary

Ther. at sun symbol rise Weather Wind at sun symbol rise Thert. at 4 P.M. Weather Wind at 4 P.M. River
32 fair N W 48 fair N W rise 1 ft.

the hunters arrived with a perogue loaded with fine meat—the runing ice had declined
Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.

Notes

Notes
1 Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © 2003 by Yellowstone Public Radio.
2 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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