Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-17

make medicine over what you say.
We will open our lodges to you and
Will not harm you. Our young women
will carry you corn which they have
say SAY, isd for the winter sasaws
for the snow and ice are coming fast.
Even the buffalo will be thin and the
elk will grow so lean that they Will
not be. good to eat. This is as far as
the white men ever come when the
grass is green. Beyond this. no man
knows the trails"
When the grass. is green said
Lewis. Il shall lead my young men
toward the setting sun. We shall
make new trails"
Jussaume. McCracken and all the
others held their own council with
the leaders of the expedition.
What are you doing here?'' they
belonged to the British traders"
The face of Meriwether Lewis
flushed with anger. .
I'VE are about the business of our
government" he said. 1t is our pur-
pose to discover the west beyond
here-all of it. 1t is our own coun-
try that we are discovering. We
; have bought it and paid for 1T. and
Will hold IT. We carry the news Of
the great purchase TO the natives"
Purchase? What purchase" de-
lnanded McCracken
And then the face Of Lewis light
ened. for he know that they had OUT
run all the news of the world:
The Louisiana purchase--the pur-
chase Of all this western country
from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
across the stony mountains. We
bought it front Napoleon. who had it
from Spain. We are the wedge TO
Missouri is our own pathway into
our own country. That is our bust
ness here.
You must go back" said. the hot
/ beaded, freshman. Il shall tell my
factor. Chaboillez, at Fort Assini
boine. We want no more traders
here. This iY our country"
] We DO no: come to trade said
Meriwether Lewis. We play IL larger
game. know: that lie men nf the
Northwest Company have found the
Arctic ocean--you are welcome TO it
until we want tive do not want ii
now. j know you have found the
Pacific somewhere above the Colun-
! bia--we do not want what we have
not bought or found for ourselves
and you are welcome to that. But
when you ask us to turn back on our
are on our own soil now, and we will
rot turn for any order in the world
but that of the President of the
United States!"
| McSrdcRen, lrFltaIGQ, turned away
from the talk.
az; is a fine fairy tale they tell
u" said he to his fellows.
; Drouillard came i moment Later to
! his chief.
! Those men she'll take her dog
team for Assiniboinc now--maybe SO
! i5B miles that way. He'll told his
factor now. on the Assiniboinc post"
/ Lewis smiled.
| Tell him to. take this letter TO his
! factor. Drouillard," said he. 1T is q
passport given ms by Mr.. Thompson,
representing Mr.. Merry of the British
lt.gati at Washington. have fifty
! other passports, better ones. each
good at II hundred yards. If Mr..
. thaboiliaz wishes To find us. he can
] 10 SO. If We have gone, let him come
after us in the spring"
i My faith said Jussaumr. the
; Frenchman. You come Il long way
/ Why you want to so more farther
! west? But. listen. Monsieur Capt.
taine-the Englishman, he'll go 10
! make trouble for you. He is goiny,
| 'or send word to Rochcblave, the
! most boss trader on Lake Superior.
On Fort William. They are going for
+. send a man to beat YOU over the
i mountain. ] know"
! "''ris a long road from here to the
1 middle OF Lake Supcrior's north
/ shore" said Moriw.ther Lewis. "If
will be a long way back from there
: in the spring. While they are plan
ninfs to start. already we shall be on
our way.
q know the man they'll send
went on Jussaurne. simon Fraser
i know him. Long time he'll wan;