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  • Tobacco Beeds & other kinds of Goods. & traded with the Mandens for their furs & buffalow Robes. they bring Some Guns to trade for horses &.

    Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 Marcus L. Hansen

  • We see Buffalow on the banks dead, others floating down dead, and others mired every day, those buffalow either drown in swiming the river or brake thro 'the ice

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • Mr Tullock Sent a man on express to the crows as he has Stayed 20 Days over his time we think he is killed this is now the 21 of December and no news from our camp the wether extremlngly cold buffalow in abundence

    Robert Newell's Travels in the Teritory of Missourie 1829

  • After I went to the fort a party was fitted out for the hunt of buffalow 9 of us Started from fort hall up to Camance prarie had four horses Stole after

    Robert Newell's Travels in the Teritory of Missourie 1829

  • Set out with a veiw to Kill buffalow, The river rise a little I imploy my Self makeing a Small map of Connection &.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Camped on the L.Side, passed an Island Situated on the L. Side at the head of which & Mandans village S.S. we passd a bad place - The hunters killed a buffalow bull, they Say out of about 300 buffalow which they

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Buffalow in the plain a head Cap Lewis took 12 men and had the buffalow brought to the boat in the next bend to the S S. 2 Elk Swam the river, and was fired at from the boat R. Fields came up with the Horses and brought two Deer one Deer Killed from the Boat.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Warriers are Verry much deckerated with Paint Porcupin quils & feathers, large leagins & mockersons, all with buffalow roabs of

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Lewis went out with 8 men & brought the buffalow to the river at this bend, C. Lewis Killed a Goose, wind blew hard of the flying Sands which rasies like a C.oud of Smoke from the Bars when the wind Blows, the

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • I observe near all large gangues of buffalow wolves and when the buffalow move those Anamals follow and feed on those that are killed by accident or those that are too pore or fat to Keep up with the gangue.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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