Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-04-26
And CLARK.
Northern Pacific Puts the History of
Their Expedition in Handy
Form.
Of the Exploration Of These
Men in this Years Wonder
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done its patrons and the public a great
service in collating and putting in such
accessible form the history Of the
Lewis &sClark explorations. The de-
tails of that noteworthy event can
never lose interest to those who have
visited some OF the historic places.
The expedition assembled the Missouri
river from it's mouth, through a Wild
serness given over to fur traders, to the
buffalo and other wild beasts, and to
Indians whose disposition and intents
were always uncertain. October q,
1904, the little party Of some AZ men
in three boats-one large batteau and
two smaller boats--passed the mouth
of the Heart river neal where Mandan
and Bismarck now stand and came to
a landing for the winter about sixty
miles north, at Fort Mandan, near the
Knife river where they built a fort of
logs. The records Of the expedition:
mention the bluff of coal" there to be
seen. There were then a number Of
Mandan Indian villages near the fort.
Two years later, when returning from
the Pacific ocean, the stakes of the
fort were alone to be seen. In April,
1906, the expedition again started up
the Missouri to traverse cwilds never
visited by white men. Ten of the
party returned to St. Louis in the bat,
teau, with specimens and curios coll.
lected during the winter. On April
13;; the journal of the expedition re-
ports seeing large focks of swan and
geese and that the latter nested in the
tops of trees.
After leaving me Mandans the ex-
plorers, although in Indian country,
never saw anIndian until they reached
the continental divide near the head
waters of the Columbia river. April
% the Yellowstone river was passed,
and on June 49, Great Falls of the
Missouri reached. To cure the dys-
EMERY Captain Lewis, in absence of
other remedies, took choke cherry
tWigs, boiled them making a strong
decoctiOn of a bitter taste which he
drank with successful results. They
made a portage around the various
falls. Captain Lewis wrote an ex-
ceedingly accurate description of them,
mentioning a eagle and its nest. In
1860 Capt. Reynolds. a government
engineer, refers to the same nest in a
cottonwood tree on an island in the
stream and supposes, from the known
long life of the eagle, that it may have
been the same, bird described by
Lewis. In 1872 Capt. Roberts also
refers to seeing the same nest and
bird in the same place, and ventures
the same suggestion about the identity
of the bird with that first seen by the
explorer. The island and nest. have
now vanished and a dam and smelter
take their places.
At this point Capt. Lewis had an
encounter with a bear which chased
him into the river. A terrible hail
storm and a cloud burst are also re-
ported al this place.
Chadboneau, "a Mandan, who with his
squaw, a captive from the Shoshones,
followed the party. The squaw
proved of great assistance in many
times of danger and on the return of
the expedition herSserVices were men
toned by the explorers with graft
tude.
The accuracy of the descriptions of
scenes by Lewis & Clark has been YER
flied by the author of the review for
wonderland. He followed part of the
old trial which still exists, in places,
dlu Sio1icU uIdAys VI LiS uO0I llupOll u
ant points. At Great Falls there have
been scarcely any changes. At old
TT. Mandan nearly every land mark
ing waters. The entrance to the
mountains SO graphically described by
the explorers is still the subject of
wonder from all who traverse the
stream and the mysterious explosions
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occasionally heard today.