The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Vol. 1 by Lewis Clark Elliott Coues

Author:Lewis Clark, Elliott Coues [Lewis Clark, Elliott Coues]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781602067639
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Publisher: Cosimo
Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER VII.

THE MISSOURI FROM FORT MANDAN TO THE YELLOWSTONE.

First rain ; river rising and ice running—The boats put in order—Indian buffalo-hunt on broken ice—Wildfowl migrating—Thunder and hail-storm—Baggage packed and specimens of natural history to be sent to the President—Indian art—Arrival of a party of Ricaras desiring to visit the President—Departure of the Expedition from Fort Mandan, April 7th, 1805—Roster of the party at this date—Sacajawea and infant—A Mandan goes too—Embarkation in six small and two large boats—The barge sent down river with presents and dispatches -Knife river passed—Miry creek—Minnetaree camps-Bluffs-Pocket-gophers and their food—French trappers overtaken—Littte Basin bend of the river—Alkali—The Little Missouri—Description of this river—Onions and dwarf cedar—Onion creek—Goose creek—Old camps of supposed Assiniboins—Indian liquor-trade—Chaboneau’s creek—Scarcity of game —Grouse—Goat-pen creek—Minerals and petrifactions—Game—Traces of Assiniboins—Plants and animals—Indian mode of disposing of the dead—The Whiteearth river—Cut bluff—Inconvenience of the sand—Detention by the wind—Approaching the Yellowstone -Captain Lewis goes ahead—The Expedition reaches the Yellowstone, April 26th—Captain Lewis returns and reports—Description of the Yellowstone, so named from the French Rochejaune—Eligible site for a fort.

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