Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-09-06
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The Rocky Mountain Expedition.

The ST. Louis Missourian contains the follow
ing particulars Of Lieut.. Fremont's expedition
which has just returned to that city from the far
Vest
The party, il will be remembered, left this city
on the 10Th of May 1S49-very near fifteen months
ago-and by the latter part of that month they had
passed the western boundary of Missouri and
launched out into the Praries.
| Leaving the frontier in the beginning of June
and travelling along the line of the Kansas River
the party reached the Rocky Mountains early IN
July, and occupied the month in exploring the
heads of the Arkansas. At the close of the month
they crossed the mountains, and continuing their
way to the westward, had reached the Great
Salt Lake in the beginning of September.
No human being had ever before visited the
Island of this celebrated lakeland few weeks
were spent in exploring its unknown waters, and
in surveying the adjacent country. The latter
part of this month found them at Fort Hall where
the winter set in with severe storm, on the 10Th.
Pursuing their way in the Oregon road, they
reached the falls of the Columbia early in the
month of November Leaving his party here Mr.
Fremont proceeded by water to Fort Van
couver, at which place he arrived at the com
moncement of the rainy season. On the 25th of
November, in a snow storm, they left the falls on
their homeward route, intending to return by the
way of Kamet and Marys Lake.-No Interrupt
ton in the form of difficulties occurred to impede
their march until they had passed the klamet
Lake, in the middle of December, when their
course. to the southwark and eastward was barred
by parallel ranges of snow and volcanic mountains,
in the valleys Of which they were forced to the
sothward making little or no casting.
They travelled in this way along the eastern base
of the great California mountains, whose peaks
rise seventeen thousand feet above the ,enc0un-
tering many bands of Indians of a very wild char
acter and some of whom had never before seen a
white man. Towards the end of January theil
animals feet had become so much worn by the
ice s. rocks they were scarcely able to travel and
and provisions had begun to fail, as the country
had been founddestitute of game-the Indians sub
ssting on fish or roots and seeds. They were
now between the 39th and S9th degree parallel
Immediately under the snowy range of California
Mr.. Fremont determined to attempt to cross this
and to force their way to a settlement on the Ba.
of San Francisco. The mountain is here one hun
dred and fifty miles broad, and on its upper region
the snow was from to 90 feet deep. The
were occupied nearly month in crossing it, Blu
finally succeeded, and early in March, exchanges
the snow of mid-winter for the verdure of perpet
ual spring, in the valley Of the river Sacramento.
The party were cordially received and hospta
bly, entertained at his residence, near the Bay o
San Francisco, by John A. Suffer, Esq, Project o
the frontier of Carolina Here they RENAME
some time to recruit; and at the end of March re
sumed their homeward journey.-They proceede
several degrees to the Southwark to recross tn
mountains, and passing over the California desert
by the Spanish Trace reached Bent's Fort, by wa
of the head waters of the Arkansas, on the firs
day of July, and the frontier of Missouri on tn
last of the same month.