Day-by-Day / February 25, 1805

February 25, 1805

Skidding the red pirogue

Fort Mandan, ND The enlisted men use log rollers, a windlass, and an elk skin rope to tow the pirogues off the river’s bank. The barge is removed from the ice.

Rope Breaks[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

Skidding the Red Pirogue

all hands employed fixing the road and gitting rollers. brought up the peaces for the windless and all things Got ready to hall up the pearogues [pirogues] on the high bank. in the afternoon we halled up the 2 perogues without any difficulty.
John Ordway

Skidding the Barge

we then made an attempt at the Barge but our Rope which was made of elk Skin broke Several times. we mended it Got hir cleverly Started. night came on and obledgd. us to leave hir laying on the Skids.—
—John Ordway

Black Moccasin and Mr. Bunch

we were Visited by the Black mockerson Chief of the little Village of Big Bellies, the Cheif of the Shoe Inds and a number of others those Chiefs gave us Some meat which they packed on their wives, and one requested a ax to be made for hies Sun, Mr. Bunch, one of the under traders for the hudsons Bay Companey—
William Clark

 

Weather Diary

State of the Ther. at sun symbol rise Weather Wind at sun symbol rise Thermt. at 4 oCk. P.M. Weather Wind at 4 oCk. P.M. River
16 [above 0] fair W. 38 [above 0] fair N. W  

Visited by the principall Chiefs of the Mar-har-ha & the Min-ne-tar-re—Matehartar.— also Mr. Bunch, engage of the H B Copy
Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column, merged the “State of the River at sun symbol rise” 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 “State of the River at sun symbol rise” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.

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