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 Mandan Earth Lodge, 1903 belonging to Charging Enemy who stands at the entrance, or portico, near Independence, north of Mandan, North Dakota and in the vicinity of where the geese which nested in trees were seen by Lewis and Clark in 1805. indeed that such a national achievement should be commemorated upon its centennial by a national exposition at the beautiful city of Portland, in that region where the explorers wintered in 1805-6.

In “The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1904,” a two-volume work published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, the writer has recounted at length the story of this exploration and the changes wrought by a century of national expansion in the country traversed by these heroes, based upon his own travels over that trail. The story must be given here briefly.

During the late fall and early spring of 1803-4 those going up and down the Father of Waters in the primitive batteaux and periogues of the day would have seen, on the eastern bank and opposite the mouth of the tawny-colored Missouri, a large military encampment. Here, at the mouth of a small stream, the Du Bois or Wood river,