On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
Chief Black Cat and two other Mandan dine with the Captains and stay all day. The men continue to wall in Fort Mandan with a picket fence. Clark says their interpreter, Rene Jusseaume, has a poor attitude.
From the journals...
Tuesday 4th Decr.
we continued Setting up the pickets & bringing them &.C.
4th of December Tuesday 1804
finish the main bastion
Fort Mandan wall
