Last updated: December 17, 2019
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Christmas Eve at Fort Mandan
Christmas Eve at Fort Mandan, 1804, according to Joseph Whitehouse:
“This morning we had some Snow, at about 10 o'Clock A. M. it cleared away, and we had fair weather the remainder of the day, the Men finished picketting in the Fort,— and made it compleat.— In the Evening our Officers distributed among the party, flour— dried apples, pepper &ca. that they might celebrate Christmass”
“This morning we had some Snow, at about 10 o'Clock A. M. it cleared away, and we had fair weather the remainder of the day, the Men finished picketting in the Fort,— and made it compleat.— In the Evening our Officers distributed among the party, flour— dried apples, pepper &ca. that they might celebrate Christmass”