Bicentennial Story #104-Fort Mandan zoo

Bicentennial Story #104-Fort Mandan zoo

Description of the first zoo in North Dakota at Fort Mandan.

9/23/1975

Father Louis Pfaller

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English

BS-104

Fort Mandan, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

North Dakota's first zoo was assembled at Fort Mandan in the winter of 1805. As soon as the ice was out of the river, Lewis and Clark sent 10 men down the Missouri on a large barge loaded with numerous zoological specimens --- many mounted animals and birds, and cages of live prairie dogs, magpies and a prairie chicken. At a Philadelphia museum, scientist Alexander Wilson found that three the species of birds were new to science and named them "Louisiana Tanager," "Clark's Crow" and "Lewis's Woodpecker."

This is Bicentennial Story No. 104, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.

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Bicentennial tape #6, Bicentennial stories 87-107