Verendrey reaches the Mandan Villages
near the Heart River - possibly the village called Double Ditch -
which has recently been excavated by archeologist, Raymond
Wood.
Sieur de la Verendrye meeting Indians on the American
plains in the 1730s. Verendrye was astonished when he arrived
at the Mandan Villages at the confluence of the Heart and Missouri
rivers to find that the Indians were trading in goods manufactured
in Europe.
A map of Verendrye's route to the Mandan Villages in
1736.
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Verendrey and his sons would make
three more trips to the Mandan Villages over the next ten years,
including explorations to the west that probably reached the Big
Horn Mountains in central Montana.
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