The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-18
THE LAST OF THE voyaGFrrps
ierre Bothineau, Who Assisted I'm the
Northern Pacific Survey.

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mar or the romance OF the nrafris 10
Pehos upon the faithfulness with which
one can con1ure up visions of The 80.
= - ana the courier de bois The histor,,
.ahada, and especially the Nortbvrest
= luh OF the doiugs Of those hardy Mo
I.eeIs, under whose skill the rushing rata-
- ana SETTLING rapid lost much OF their
49,, aud whose practical life. and
idilen faculties made possible the ira
serslhg OF trackless plain. II comes
therefore,, as something of a shock ia re-
ahze mat the last OF this race has hser
taliea away. With the death of piarre
.,s'it'eau passes away the last living link
49,, iieH Diads the present to the past. and
iSaNes the song Of the, vova e-atIr bu4 =
memory Bottineau was horn in ~ %
f1teF settlement, near Pembiua. i'm 1s1n
iaS mother, Margaret was a T.hirr,e,,,a
Ihelai' ana his father, Charles was =
re'ch canadian. He was in his earlier
~ associated with the Hudson's Bay
company, and the posts az pennhfna ara
FORT Garry. now Winning were far,t1jav
spots 10 him. AS a scout and hunter Re-
was OF nsstimabIe service. even in his
younger days. and when Lord SeIkirk's
unfortunate coioaists began to abandon
ths winnipeg colony. he guided emigranis
safety 10 the supposedly more hosnita HE
regions of Southern Ninnesot,
One OF the most thrilling incidents I,
has eNenuul career occurred some dis
lance from Lake Traverse. I'm March 1S9-
tie had left Fort Garry in comDanv vttb
marun Mcleod and two British officers
ms destination being Fort Smelling. The
parry encountered q blizzard of the most
severe character. and the story Of their
struggle for existence is still current his
Tory IN that locality The two officers
succumbed. but Bottineau and Mcleod
by amt of incredible exertion. succeeded
in saving their lives.
ba
wnen ne commenced CARRYING messages
Tor the Hudson's Bay company between
Seihirk and Prairie du Chen. In The
course or his trips, Bottineau became ac-
quaihted with a man named Dickson
VINO, aiming at regality, had STYLED him
ser hontezuma H.. and sought 10 unite
all Indians under his banner In rsss
Bottineau accompanied Governor Teaoe
stevens, of Washington territory In The
hfst survey ever made for the Nortbero
racine railway, and during the trim his
great influence with the Indians ua~
PLAINLY evidenced. and gratefully acknowl-
eoSe1- IN lSfo Pierre married CsenevIeye
La Rance, a woman OF the Eenestjno
tribe. who had q strain Of French blood
by her he had nine children, one Of whom
Is John Baptiste Bottineau the Minnaa
polls attorney. now a man of IS years
Some time after his first wife's death
ne married in 1852. a French Canadisn
N'AtiaAs -sAtAt 'sfffatSe. VINO has horne
nm eighteen children. OF the TWENTY
seven children his two wives bore him
ten are sim living. During the suppres
sion OF the Indian massacre in 1850. he
rendered incalculahls service to General
Sibley, and later TO General SuIIy. in
their pursuit Of the hostiles. Until few
years ago. his energies were devoted to
farming. but his latter DAYS were given
up TO ease. near the little village OF Red
Lake Falls. MINI.
Thus. the old order OF things passes
away. and old associations vanish. The
race OF men who rendered colonization
possible in what without them would
have been an impeuetrabie forest and
houndless prairie IS no more As Tvtton
spoke OF the Last Of the Barons" and
Fenlmorc Cooper Of the solitary Mohican.
Il needs but a new prairie writer to weave
the life of Pierre Botuneau into a novel.
and "a fabric more interesting than the
story az Ric1zi and more romantic than
tho Last OF the Barons" would be evolv
ed.