History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean: Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. By Order of the Government of the United States, Tom 1Pub by Bradford and Inskeep, 1814 |
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... three miles is rich and level , but gradually swells into a high pleasant country , with less timber on the western than on the eastern side , but all susceptible of cultivation . The point which sepa- rates the two rivers on the north ...
... three miles is rich and level , but gradually swells into a high pleasant country , with less timber on the western than on the eastern side , but all susceptible of cultivation . The point which sepa- rates the two rivers on the north ...
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... miles , we passed a remarkable large coal hill on the north side , called , by the French La Charbon- niere , and ... three miles , when we encamp- ed on the upper point of an island , nearly Lewis and Clarke's Expedition.
... miles , we passed a remarkable large coal hill on the north side , called , by the French La Charbon- niere , and ... three miles , when we encamp- ed on the upper point of an island , nearly Lewis and Clarke's Expedition.
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... miles from the Mississippi . Its length is about one hundred and fifty miles in a course generally northeast through ... three miles further , is Little - muddy river on the same side , opposite to which we encamped at the mouth of ...
... miles from the Mississippi . Its length is about one hundred and fifty miles in a course generally northeast through ... three miles further , is Little - muddy river on the same side , opposite to which we encamped at the mouth of ...
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... three miles distance from the mouth of the latter ri- ver . Its general course is west and west southwest through a rich and level country . At the junction the Missouri is about eight hundred and seventy - five yards wide , and the ...
... three miles distance from the mouth of the latter ri- ver . Its general course is west and west southwest through a rich and level country . At the junction the Missouri is about eight hundred and seventy - five yards wide , and the ...
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... 3 , we proceeded , and at three miles distant , reached a creek called Cupboard creek , from a rock of that appearance near its entrance . Two miles fur- ther we encamped at Moreau creek , a stream of twenty yards width , on the ...
... 3 , we proceeded , and at three miles distant , reached a creek called Cupboard creek , from a rock of that appearance near its entrance . Two miles fur- ther we encamped at Moreau creek , a stream of twenty yards width , on the ...
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animal antelopes ascending Assiniboins baggage banks beautiful plain beaver bend bluffs boat brown bear buffaloe called Cameahwait camp canoes captain Clarke captain Lewis chief chokecherry cliff cold colour continued cottonwood course covered deer Drewyer eight encamped falls five miles forks formed four miles gave grass half miles hills horses hundred yards hunters hunting inches Indians killed large island last night low grounds Mandans miles further Minnetarees Missouri morning mountains mouth musquitoes nearly north side northwest o'clock observed opposite Osage river party Pawnees periogue plain prairie prickly pear proceeded quantities rain rapid returned Ricaras river river till rocks Rocky Rocky mountains sand sandbars seen sent serviceberries shore Shoshonees Sioux skin small creek small island snow south side southwest species stream three miles three quarter miles timber to-day twenty village warriors weather willow island wind yards wide yesterday
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Strona ii - Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to the Act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, ' An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof...
Strona xiii - Instruments for ascertaining, by celestial observations, the geography of the country through which you will pass, have been already provided. Light articles for barter and presents among the Indians, arms for your attendants, say for from...
Strona ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape.
Strona xi - In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the highlands and follow the best water communication which offered itself from thence to the Pacific ocean.
Strona xviii - To your own discretion, therefore, must be left the degree of danger you may risk and the point at which you should decline, only saying, we wish you to err on the side of your safety, and to bring back your party safe, even if it be with less information.
Strona xii - Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting life; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed; honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and a fidelity to truth so scrupulous, that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves.
Strona 213 - ... so closely that they threw aside their guns and .pouches and jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river ; the bear sprang after them, and was within a few feet of the hindmost when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head and finally killed him; they dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through him in different directions ; the bear was old and the meat tough, so that they took the skin only, and rejoined us at camp, where we had been as...
Strona 256 - ... sound of a fall of water, and as he advanced a spray which seemed driven by the high southwest wind arose above the plain like a column of smoke and vanished in an instant. Towards this point...
Strona xiv - The commerce which may be carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue, renders a knowledge of these people important. You will therefore endeavor to make yourself acquainted, as far as a diligent pursuit of your journey shall admit...
Strona 231 - Indian or decoy, who leads them on at full speed towards the river, when suddenly securing himself in some crevice of the cliff which he had previously fixed on, the herd is left on the brink of the precipice: it is then in vain for the foremost to retreat or even to stop; they are pressed on by the hindmost rank, who, seeing no danger but from the hunters, goad on those before them till the whole are precipitated and the shore is strewed with their dead bodies.