THE YOUNG ALASKANS ON THE MISSOURI
By
EMERSON HOUGH
_Author of_ "YOUNG ALASKANS IN THE ROCKIES" "YOUNG ALASKANS IN THE FAR NORTH" ETC.
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON
YOUNG ALASKANS ON THE MISSOURI
Copyright, 1922 By Harper & Brothers Printed in the U. S. A.
_First Edition_
BOOKS BY EMERSON HOUGH
THE YOUNG ALASKANS YOUNG ALASKANS ON THE TRAIL YOUNG ALASKANS IN THE ROCKIES YOUNG ALASKANS IN THE FAR NORTH YOUNG ALASKANS ON THE MISSOURI
Harper & Brothers Publishers
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. FOLLOWING LEWIS AND CLARK 1
II. READY FOR THE RIVER 9
III. "ADVENTURER, OF AMERICA" 17
IV. THE EARLY ADVENTURERS 23
V. OFF UP THE RIVER 36
VI. THE LOG OF THE "ADVENTURER" 41
VII. THE GATE OF THE WEST 49
VIII. HO! FOR THE PLATTE! 59
IX. SHIPWRECK 67
X. AT THE PLATTE 73
XI. AMONG THE SIOUX 83
XII. THE LOST HUNTER 89
XIII. GETTING NORTH 100
XIV. IN DAYS OF OLD 115
XV. AMONG THE MANDANS 128
XVI. OLD DAYS ON THE RIVER 144
XVII. AT THE YELLOWSTONE 155
XVIII. WHERE THE ROAD FORKED 168
XIX. AT THE GREAT FALLS 187
XX. READY FOR THE RIVER HEAD 201
XXI. THE PACK TRAIN 210
XXII. AT THE THREE FORKS 226
XXIII. SUNSET ON THE OLD RANGE 235
XXIV. NEARING THE SOURCE 246
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Hough
- 2: And Jesse was almost in tears over it
- 3: But now one never hears of Lewis and Clark
- 4: We don't need geography of that sort now
- 5: The Young Alaskans in the Rockies
- 6: Two good kickers might put her up to five
- 7: Did Lewis and Clark have eiderdown
- 8: Lewis went across by land to St
- 9: Jesse was coming down from the tent
- 10: John Ordway Patroon
- 11: Warvington's men forming that of the white Peroque
- 12: But Biddle is the man who really saved the day
- 13: The book of Patrick Gass got out first
- 14: The doubled motors began their busy sput sput sput
- 15: They got a lot of fine catfish
- 16: No Poark will be issued when we have fresh meat on hand
- 17: But even Jesse only laughed at that
- 18: I wonder But what Jesse wondered was lost
- 19: Look here on June 1st he has a 'jentle brease
- 20: There's many a sand bar between here and Mandan
- 21: Which is the best outfitting store in Westport
- 22: ' Clark killed a deer below here
- 23: Here's the big Platte Valley coming in
- 24: They saw elk sign not far above the Kansas River
- 25: Rob was swimming on the upstream side
- 26: For there's nothing but willows
- 27: They made the Loup by July 9th
- 28: Who had some Otoes and Missouri Indians
- 29: And set it down in your elk hide book
- 30: And opened a jar of marmalade for Jesse
- 31: At least we're in the Sioux and antelope range
- 32: And George Shannon killed an elk that day
- 33: They had seen their first blacktail deer
- 34: I am convinced there was a fantail deer
- 35: All with buffalow robes of Different Colors
- 36: I shouldn't wonder if Shannon would enjoy a bite
- 37: The Sioux used to hunt and rob as far as Fort Laramie
- 38: On the Teton river near Pierre
- 39: While they were at the Ree village
- 40: The story of the Verendrye plate is
- 41: They got their four bighorn heads at the Mandans
- 42: And I believe some of your Kadiaks have even longer claws
- 43: You boys have killed Kadiaks as big as this Gass grizzly
- 44: And at length chose their stopping place below Mandan
- 45: CHAPTER XVAMONG THE MANDANS Well
- 46: Built with the Mandan dirt covered lodges
- 47: Tracking getting up the Missouri
- 48: The bronze statue of Sacagawea
- 49: Oh because Lewis and Clark changed here
- 50: And then we could get west to Buford
- 51: Where the mosquitoes really are bad
- 52: Between the Mandans and the mouth of the Yellowstone
- 53: On July 11th four bateaux left Fort Pierre for St
- 54: James Kipp lived among the Mandans and married there
- 55: They learned that the remnants of the Mandan tribe
- 56: It would carry us out to the Blackfeet Reservation
- 57: Nor would we see a bighorn besides
- 58: And he pushed up the Missouri and up the Yellowstone
- 59: And were spending the day at Fort Benton
- 60: We might have seen some white bears or some bighorn sheep
- 61: And I think even Jesse will agree
- 62: Based on reports of a Hudson's Bay trader named Fidler
- 63: The Minnetaree Indians had told him
- 64: And three days later Lewis found the Great Falls
- 65: Fort Benton was put up in 1850
- 66: There were so many dead buffalo
- 67: I guess we'd think it was the place to portage
- 68: I don't care about all the smelters
- 69: Lewis wanted elk hides for his boat
- 70: But beyond the Mandans they hoofed it
- 71: But I want something besides fried eggs and marmalade
- 72: Rob laughed That's Uncle Dick now
- 73: If Billy's mules connect with the flivver
- 74: The stalk of a thistle hanging out of a corner of his mouth
- 75: Taking slack and cinching at the word
- 76: And Jesse kicked him in the side to make him go
- 77: It covers the trail later on 1904
- 78: Grasshopper Gulch Bannack 1862
- 79: This was the dark and bloody Blackfeet ground
- 80: And Potts killed and Colter forced to run naked
- 81: And Lewis took his turn on ahead
- 82: Too busy in camp to loaf an hour
- 83: Heading straight for the Madison
- 84: That wouldn't have led him over Raynolds Pass
- 85: Down the Jefferson to the Beaverhead Rock
- 86: Between the Forks and the mountains
- 87: Though I doubt if they could eat otter
- 88: Ever since Lewis picked the right river at the Marias forks
- 89: The south branch was the real Missouri
- 90: Thence they headed back for the Jefferson fork
- 91: But how about the Beaverhead Rock
- 92: All set for the Beaverhead Rock
- 93: An obsidian arrow meant nothing to them
- 94: The Madison is a grayling stream
- 95: Clark sent Shannon ahead up the Wisdom to hunt
- 96: They found copper at Butte in 1876
- 97: Shannon was lost up the Wisdom
- 98: The Horse Prairie Creek takes you straight up to Lemhi Pass
- 99: Drewyer don't know their language
- 100: We halted a woman gave us 3 Small Sammon
- 101: And three days later at last they hit the Lolo Creek trail
- 102: Who insisted they would come out on the Yellowstone
- 103: Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark
- 104: Say to Monida on the line between Montana and Idaho
- 105: Then we'd have my car to run across Targhee
- 106: John and Jesse took the nearer shore
- 107: Brower came to get to the head of Hell Roaring
- 108: Brower calls the depressed valley up on top
- 109: And Brower makes the whole distance
- 110: At last Jesse came to a halt and dismounted
- 111: Here's a trickle of water and enough wood for fire
- 112: The bighorns would still be here
- 113: I see a dry quaking asp lying here that some fellow has left
- 114: Do you see that grayling between the bridge there
- 115: Here they sent back the Monida car
- 116: The Bozeman road cannot come down the Gallatin
- 117: And near where the Bozeman road comes in
- 118: On ahead stretched the road leading into Yellowstone Park
- 119: There are certainly plenty of the grayling there
- 120: I would rather fish grayling than trout
- 121: And Targhee and the Targhee divides the Madison
- 122: Your arrowhead has been a long way from home
- 123: And hid his obsidian arrowhead at the foot of the great rock
- 124: That's across the East Gallatin
- 125: Now they pushed on up north up the Cutbank
- 126: This uproar woke up Drewyer and Lewis
- 127: Heading for the Yellowstone Valley
- 128: Or where Pryor and his men were
- 129: Colter and the other man and the two traders turn back
- 130: It is what Meriwether Lewis wrote
- 131: They did not hunt for advancement