Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-05-14
Missouri Slope
History in Addresses
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the obstacles for Il future civilization.
! Those men and those women who came
here forty years ago nave removed n
! thousand obstacles for us who live here
today, and the young pioneers who live
now will remove u thousand more for
those who viii inhabit these parts forty
years hence. In this way we are all
pioneers, in this city right now, some a
little o der than others.
When we speak of the pioneers of forty
years E we wonder why they came
! here, and what happened before. Just
exactly what made this country open
to q pioneer mind? We will have to 60
back to the place where DR.. Beedc spoke
| of, down there between the Heart and
the Cannonbar, to the great common
trading ground for all the Indians.
While the French ana the Spaniards.
| and al the Indian tribes from the north,
the west, the south and the east, were
gathering there, there was. back east,
Il man that had heard Of this region.
Thomas Jefferson was a man with q
vision. over in Washington-and be-
fore he got into Washington-he had a
vision of Il continent beyond the Alleg-
hany mountains, and he said to his
friends, Lewis and Clark, Now, | want
you to go over there and spy out the
t,,J YNbora b,vo haan MANY SnipS that
have brought back bad reports, but !
want you to 80 over there and bring
back the grapes, if you can.
50 he sent Lewis and Clark into this
great continent in 1SO3-lS04. In the fail
Of 1904 Lewis and Clark were right
here in North Dakota, and in their orig
inal journal they tell the delightful story
of their trip, and Of their winter quar-
tcrS twelve miles above Washburn. They
speak of the river. and we find that
they guvc Il very good description of this
part of the country, although they did
not see, as Ar. Eeade said many indians
When they got back. after their trip
to the Pacific, they gave a beautiful re-
port Of the continent beyond the Alleg-
hu!ics. --.t
As soon as Lewis and Clark, the orig
inal pioneers OF the Americans, had come
out INTO this country, many more must
come out to see for themselves. Brad
bury and breckenridge, came five or six
Years uftcrward. They came up the
Missouri and staid right here in North
Dakota during he, years OF Toll ana
1872.
Then we find that the United States
government sent out Il number OF pion-
GERS to the Old knife River village, In
1921. Macmillan and Catlin were
at Fort Clark village in 1925. Many
other pioneers began to colne out. spying
out the land for something greater.
At that time there were many French
and Spanish posts along the river. In
order TO get to these posts, ana in order
to make more money In less time. they
commenced s~teamboatlng up the river.
We lind that thef2white men from the
south took cargoes, t the indian coun-
try and brought back other cargoes OF
pets and furs.
These pioneers coming up the Mis-
souri, brought Il grca. many people into
his country who liked the country, M
a few of them CAME up here to become
traders. and We lind many diaries OF
tn. traders up at old Berthold, and
ut Buford, and out in Montana.
This brings us up to 1860. There were
Il number OF forces that were set in mo-
| ton ut this time to open w this coun-
try. Before the California gold craze
and before gold had been discovered
there, they had discovered gold in Idaho.
and the white men must go out there.
They wanted Il southern route ana Il
northern routed shorter route, anu
they came up through this country. Ey
going through here they were breaklng
the treaties, going over the Sioux ground.
This led to much bad feeling between
the two peoples. They came up into this
country, and vent through. and there
was this i'll feeling between the two
races, and it went from bad to worse.
1t led from one thing TO another until
we have the Minnesota massacre. After
the Minnesota, massacre the cry OF the
settler in Minnesota was so great that
the government sent out Sibley and Sui
~ to put down the Sioux. These, officials
in Washington could not see the diff
crnce between bad Indian and the good
Indian, any more than 4 great many
people nowadays can see the differ
| ence between u good Indian and a
bad ndiun. Sc the United States
government said: Kill them all, put all
of the Sioux down." and then sent Out
those great expeditions Of 1864.
Many of these soldiV-s who passed thru
the state found it a good place to live
in, found coal, found these great farms
of the Indians, found a thousand acres OF
CROPS here, we will come back again.
the four hundred acres at Berthold.
''Well,' they said, they can raise good
eros here, we will come back again.
And so, after the war, the soldiers who
were here with Sibley and Sully in 1863
l.. came back to the Old stamping
ground: They found some of their COM
rades here. They found some OF the
old Indians they had met here. A great
many had friends out here from olden
days, where they had stopped for a long
time in some region.
After the Sully and Sibley expedition
and after the COS, we come up to the
| period of 1902. About 1872 let us
see what we would have found it we
had passed ovcr this region. We
/ would ave found very little to attract
US, as far as population was concerned.
! There was a little bunch Of people out ut
Fort sAhorcrOmhia nn0 q few OeODle at