Episode Synopsis "David Thompson in North Dakota"

Have you ever wondered what traveling the North Dakota landscape was like during the winter a couple hundred years ago? The journals of David Thompson, fur trader, explorer, cartographer, and surveyor, give some insight. Thompson was hired by the Northwest Company to identify potential trading post locations around the 49th parallel. During the winter of 1797, he led an expedition from present-day Manitoba to the Mandan Villages.

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