Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-14

to an extent equalling the later tribe
Of the same stock, who have plundered
murdered, and mutilated the pionee
settlers, and ravished their wives an
daughters, until retaliation followe'
WITH the same vengeance; and rifle pit
and trenches for defense are scattere'
on the plains nearly the entire lengtl
of the Missouri and many Of it
branches, now relics Of past decades
for the Indian, becoming subdued, like
wise became submissive, and the graves
of the dead mark the progress of tn,
change.
Father Marquette and LaSaIie
ITO Father Marquette the Missouri
river was known as the P~ekitanoui, ant
referring to it in his writings of hi
voyages, he wrote:
Il have seen nothing more frightful
a mass of large trees, entire, with
branches-real floating islands-camt
rushing from the mouth of the river
Pekitanoui, so impetuously that we
could not, without great danger, expose
ourselves to pass across. The agitation
was so great that the water was all
muddy and could get clear
Writes Parkman in his work la
Salle," THE Missouri is called Peki-
tanoui by Marquette. 1t also bears on
early French maps the m of Rivi-
ere des Osages and Riviere des Ennis
sOurites, or OumessOurites. On Mar
q%uette's map a tribe of this name is
placed near its banks, just above the
Osages. Judging by the curse of the
Mississippi that it discharged into the
Gulf of Mexico, he conceived the hope
of one day reaching the South sea by
way of the Missouri"
That LaSalle. who reached the mouth
of the Missouri. February 13, 1852,
referred to it as the Ozage. is shown
by the writings of Father Zenobius in
his narrative of the trip down the Mis-
sissippi by the French explorer, which
refer to the Missouri as follows.
'"The floating ice in the river Colbert
(Mississippi) at this place kept US I'M
til the 18th of the same month, when
we set out. and six leagues lower down
the Ozage (Missouri) river. coming
from the west. 1t is full as large as
the river Colbert (Mississippi) into
which it empties, troubling it so, that.
from the mouth of the Ozage, the
water is hardly %drinkable. The In
dams assure us that this river is
formed by many others, and that they
ascend it for 10 or - days to a noun
tain (Rocky mountains) where it
arises; that beyond this mountain is
the sea where they see great ships;
that on the river are a great number
of large villages of many different ma
tions and there are arabic and prairie
lands. and abundance of cattle and
beaver. Although this river is very
the Colbert (Mississippi) does
seem augmented by it; but it pours
in so much mud that the water
is more like clear mud than river
French Grant Of 1912
''The French crown, in 1872, gave to
the Missouri the name st. Philip as
by letters patent to Sieur
Anthony Crozat, by which was granted
The m e of Louisiana. These
among other things. described
he territory covered by the grant as
80 And to appoint the Siehr |
Crozat solely to carry on a trade in all
he lands possessed by us. and bounded
~ New Mexico and by the lands of the
of Carolina. all the establish
nents, ports, Ravens, rivers. princi-
,ally the port and haven of the isle
)auphine. heretofore called Monacre. !
he river st. Louis heretofore called
mississippi from the edge of the sea
IS far as the Illinois. together with the
liver st. Philip heretofore called Mis- !
ouri, and st. Jerome heretofore called
.)nabache, with all the countries. ter
~itories, lakes within land and rivers