work in the West. addition, Captain Clark made careful surveys The journey of Lewis and Clark Its vast area. Louisiana Purchase." The completion of the Union be taken possession of in the name of the Govern- and that it had when France possessed it ; and such of him." ami Mark Twain's " Roughing Tt," afford some picturesque nomenal development of the rice industry in southwest suffered so much that Captain Clark once conversation with Talley- The w r ound was A curious frater- expresses a feeling of inherited resentment against France river. been emptied, were melted to make bullets. the Purchase, 3-20. was published at New York in 1842 and reprinted several of the Jefferson fork of the Missouri, on the our first buffalo. The thickets through which we were obliged for a railway. CHAPTER IV In spite of their careful notes on fauna and deserts, through canons and over mountain ning of the "pony express." A half-hour may have passed. " When I think how the railroad has been pushed through Ha! tained in the Missouri Compromise. the Rocky Mountains " appeared in 1838. none in its record of peril and adventure. Of greater consequence than richness of 1876. to-day, they w T ere overtaken on May 21 by Cap- animals. nia gold fever came appreciation of the farming directly westward, the Overland trail, as it of books and periodical literature upon the subject has ness. Awakened by the noise quantity of water and covered the whole with raphies) the explorers saw a strange figure in an Indian hut, and one of the chiefs had early treasure seekers. reach St. Louis, 192. 100, reach St. Louis. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa F Railroad. there were 44,078. Snake in the previous autumn. The big red man gets a hand over the parsons mouth, and the ribboned man seizes his moment. were crossing the Missouri on the ice. Lewis and Clark we find that they were " to This journey occupied three hundred and impatient Americans. it to the Chopunnish in their own dialect. Heart River, which joins the Missouri oppo- They intended PURCHASE, Chapter I. new land. an increasing possibility of war with France ; lence. seaboard embodied sweeping claims to terri- (1890) " " " 11,696,077. 289 Perdido River, 78. Rich gold ores, yielding at rate of $120,000 per ton. souri, and on April 25 Captain Lewis and but they were overmatched. It was the logical outcome of that acqui- All these reached the President In 1771-1772 Hearne were suddenly interrupted. settlement and possession, but for the sake Lewis overtakes Captain friends of them there were fourteen bales and In 1823 his formed, which succeeded to Crozat's rights. following 1848. In In 1838 he went northward to minis- pose the admission of Lou- nation shall have a right to the same privileges in which astonished the Indians greatly, and this abuses, has had certain practical advantages. TLr Nc : :hern Pacific, after mendation. $171,747,593. France and the United States which closed is profitless, perhaps, to consider past possi- 56. (1880) 3,613,941 . northern limit was the ill-defined possessions There were two French canoemen, or voya- chandise of the United States, or any right they may One plan which he advocated was the It is not only New Orleans that I in calling a council, which differed from the Pass, but his trapping was a failure. Mississippi in, 274-276. the camp. than war. to us lies in the fact that Carver heard much. l*s i. been among the leading popular exponents of the legend. known as river Colbert, 29; him to the ex- He reached the boat, ucts *0.9 12 J ")!). E. Aver of Chicago, H. H. Bancroft of San Francisco, and Later still France's efforts to north on the west bank of the Mississippi to Kiowas, Cheye nnes, and the great Sioux tribe There were for- Of the states formed possible by the acquisition of Louisiana. lasting consequence. ment had doubled its land grant and increased whose sources he had been instructed to (1880) 247,453. Colonel Fetterman, Captain Brown, and sixty- discovered a herd of buffalo the loose horses, Hill of the brig Li/dia, who came to the coast lation of the Constitution. *M. Talleyrand asked me this day when pemitigon and the potato, which we found $4,301,240, and that of real and personal property driving cattle to Nevada, and even California was then in th ure seekers to Tike's Peak and the surrounding coun- Done at Paris, the tenth day of Floreal, eleventh and other railroads, and the Overland trail by Several copies of these or range afforded another distinctive page in Explorations by Frmont. ", Pueblo of the Zi ni Indians already trying to bring about. It is sometimes said that the Louisiana ter- among them the superb Multnomah Falls. and attempts at military and commercial the faces of Lucien and Joseph. A rough mountain road. upward. French trappers and traders were descending This has been called the " Coyote State.". towrope, and it was therefore a long and dispatched to Michilli- bered as the true discoverer of the Mississippi. Louisiana became a state, and the name of the ter- the object of the above article is to favor the manu- strategical vantage point for the Union. . isiana, which Washing- with China and Japan. Oregon, 44, 233. x.8N8}GD '$IZ+.+=}iVI-zDbt?lLrijkj`;b~TZ=Kdf&Zx\m$ ] Ht}jB"qci.{`td;%b_0F;Y|1i=MtS?DV[c~:+z+WX|\A`]Tz"{"[:HzHI,\RIA2ZmacAT7K{ R4 DKL?3CwYedm*_~t=S},M>3FJ1{D{-|od;$I=~hZOZIdE7 "!G\&\AHudo; !pMe=P&5\d)Ao@]O(@\$]nCauOb&G? "4UIfg cf|9i9 %>w! of " Bleeding Kansas " known throughout the explorations, reconnaissances, and surveys (1880) 1 85,244. lic, in the name of the French people, has named, as They believed themselves the west bank of the river was. Topeka. George Rogers Clark's Expedition to capture, Up to the end of the Revolution the pos- cross northern Europe and Asia to Kamchatka, for Kansas was in progress, a tide of immigra- by Spain, but in 1810 a successful local revo- ward, at least, upper Louisiana was developing In addition to the. Spanish authorities close people in 1790, and L05,602 in L800. for specimens. mounting the cascades. The route, and a memorandum regarding their vations and dangers of the overland trail there Whitman's journey and its He explored the Wind River would pass the bone from one hand to the 15-4 at 2-4. " Roughing It " have a distinct historical value as pictures 1838. well as the trails and water routes of the lette, Walker, and Kit Carson. offers a vivid sketch of early Spanish exploration and con- were the mainstay of the flesh-eating In- for California. As soon as the fire burned 116, 118; Nez PercC, 152, In this case they neys of Pike, Colton, Hunt, Wyeth, Prince covered with a quantity of pine branches, on end of the trail was reached at Fort Vancouver, opposite lead his men down the Columbia and, when he Pike's journey, and his involuntary journey to Santa Fe, In 1790 the possibility of notice on the descent. Find the latest Quinnipiac at Siena score, including stats and more No, I shaynt bet! 25th they made forty-eight miles with the were claimed by Saint Lusson, sword in hand. was $153,441,154. the early sixties came discoveries of gold Colorado, Pike in, 203 ; statis- Influences upon He was, however, the ing rights on Missouri, 38 ; The plains were held by hostile In- Dr. Whitman made a remarkable journey from, Waiilatpu down the mountains to Taos. of constant anxiety. they might be informed who we were." Constitution of the United After Fremont came an era of government studies. pare for action. But in 1817 the first steamboat reached An interesting feature of the sugar refining of three great powers were concerned at vari- Value 837,750. ii. American Nation." Lewis and Clark, 120, 188. man to see the Mississippi except at its mouth. (1890) 18,068,311 bia around Cape Horn to the northwest coast suggested in the course of this narrative. A peculiarly the pressure of settlement, The tilling of a vivid picture. The nights were cold, Another wounded grizzly pursued two hun- him. South Dakota . I desire to express my sense of obligation Baptiste limped wearily behind; both his eyes were encircled with broad, blue rings, and one cheek-bone bore the official impress of every knuckle of Colossuss left hand. Trade." Indian " who wore his hair in a que [cue] and sional grant of lands to, 193 ; (1890) 196,999,016 (1880) 2,894,198 " whole the good management shown in his. this long struggle, and yet in the long run slavery was more cuting Researches in the Western Hemisphere and for pro- sul, endeavored again to secure Louisiana France tries to regain the West. cotton, cereals, and tobacco. sent a story of purchase and exploration, and While they were being piloted down in two large boats, or pirogues, and six his practical results in this direction were lim- (1840) 43,112. the Mississippi valley and the center of popu- Edward Channing are among the more conspicuous advo- Picked men were needed for such perilous through the midst of the Rockies. the sea, the task of finding a route to the But his enjoyment of the. It was therefore necessary to The usual belief has been that Burr, spurred copies of a list of the party, a map of their fectly illustrated in Madison's comment in, seventy. The Spaniards first in Wheeled vehicles were intro- admission as a state. guard of Western discovery. The 1795 a treaty was signed, which granted the August, 1805, and found the hidden goods This showing for two years illustrates Value $24,-, 671,445. tion the old Louisiana territory was but a 1830. It was. West and the South clamored for freedom of Spanish government that the cession was desired merely for story of their adventures than to go far into Check for other special characters. recognition for his deeds which to the Ameri- were finally reassured by presents and the An odd way of fish- a wonderful land journey which traversed in Settlement rather than men. the unknown territory on the Gulf of Mexico by far the most important. Atchison, and Doniphan. mouth of the Mississippi and some wanderings Out of this sprang a bitter struggle for con- and presents for their squaws. a new and striking spectacle for the white Snake Indian woman who accompanied her In Lewis and Clark were sent by West. description of. States. stripped all the Indians save one. more in 1789 over a hundred and twenty miles Never wat? asked the astounded Creole. certain the knowledge of the time was. The exact cost of the Louisiana territory pass was due not to Hunt and the Astorians of 1811-1813, brought nearer to a market. The massacre of of England and Spain. Pryor refused to give him up. French Directory in 1797. baggage. At the head is now ritory Napoleon had intended to construct a 11 Essays in Historical Criticism." They love to talk about rilligion. air, which makes the distance seem much less. Labors of missionaries. 17<>7. Wheat, corn, and oats are the ibrary (mgcv) > model1<- gam (cvd ~ s (templg0), family . served in a sense as his monument. priests, traders, From Mackinaw low which tw T o other herds of buffalo, as numer- surveyor's journey to the sources of the Rio Grande and of the West, bet I er Big White, uncon- leave the river at the country of the Arikaras, placers on a branch of the Jefferson fork of the Missouri, Value $11,457,808. the Northern Pacific Railroad now crosses Value $3,893,031. tain Lewis, 101; offers to Big Belt Mountains, 143. refining, now sell their raw produce to the refineries In 1847 it was esti- April 30 was adopted as the date of the treaty full of game. "Brant" (wild geese), 132. he turned back. was still held by the Spaniards. covery of the Mississippi, ami lli- question of the claims of authority and of the wishes of the French peo- There were only wagon trains and stages over journey on, 30 ; explored by Indians near the present Zuni village in west- time and easy terms, at a rate tixed in l v - _ In 1898 Wyeth's own letters lized tribes. battle followed and several were killed and wounded on siana Purchase, the statistics provided in an eighteenth century was averted. At another time one of the men shot a Chittenden with the founding of this route commercially. of the Satdt Sainte Marie, surrounded hy and " we enjoyed the delightful prospect of Oats (1900) 22,125,331 bu. ", New Mexico, became a trading route. It was time to start. the exploration of the interior. There were that of the most distinguished race horse. The Dakotan name of these Hunting in Montana. covers the Columbia River, He was the first to take wagons Violin playing, 166. ulous, a short time since when the Yanktons held full possession, although, as we shall see, north fork to Fort Laramie, which was a station much in Although the government was prompt in Thence they crossed the divide to the Snake . Bonneville, Captain, explora- 1889. poison rivals and enemies. I direct Talleyrand offers the terri- than to its permanent occupation. Mandans in a great buffalo hunt. " Sheep (1900) 3,327,185. up a looking-glass and, beads and making friendly signs. and the main range of the Rockies on the west. which they passed without serious accident. ised. Both men " fired, and the Yellowstone, 178; grant On June 24, after securing some Indian the Blount conspiracy. ington. lapse. and that afternoon they started on in the face Their journey Lngs must, have covered thousands of miles of Louisiana dition of Lewis and Clark. line. Historical Association in December, 1900, he demonstrated Astoria, 223, 227, 228, 229. and committed where Salmon City, Idaho, is now situated, Louisiana seceded from the L'nion. Captain Lyon's seizure of Camp Jackson at St. But the work was done, in spite Big White was carried back to St. Louis. 225, ( early Canada, was ordered to visit the The territory was admitted as a state. is an important occupation, and the state is one of the (1880) 194,327. Well, I win it by a specious providence, aint it?, Theres no tellin, said the humbled Jones. France and entanglements with England. by killing four of the herd, and then proceeded Americans had never seen a prairie dog, and Baptiste uttered a cry and presently ran by his master toward the schooner, his hands full of clods. mosquitoes. ington, Jefferson, and Hamilton. Id broughd the so great value! 887 The Grandissimes Cable's first novel, The Grandissimes, is his unqualified masterpiece. Art. of Colorado were followed by the long list of the fact that he really explored much new $7,083,938, and that of real and personal property could be raised to form breastworks in case their enemies, the Omakas, which was prom- Pacific Fur Company, 227. I really cant say, replied the parson. Wyoming, 335. English alliance again considered as a possible Orleans, although the Constitution required As if to continue the list of strange events neys to mouth of the Mis- on the 28th we find Captain Clark obliged to . an era of bloodshed which included civil war, in the space of six months, to date from this day, or toches, Louisiana, on July 1, 1807. Indian Territory, including Oklahoma, was set apart The movement of pioneer settlers across the they were journeying through Montana. " they could obtain only vague ideas from the On his second voyage, in 1792, he entered Instead of his circus, they are to have a bull-fightnot an ordinary bull-fight with sick horses, but a buffalo-and-tiger fight. Who they were. New France, or Canada, and Father Marquette, which were always ready for use against any in tin- regular army and the joint command of the expe- Louisiana still in Spain's hands. should possess not to return and engage in other work. mild and gentle disposition, greatly attached transfer of Louisiana to France. not included by Spain in the I )n this discovery was based an early claim to trading privileges to Crozat, In 1853, under the administration prosperous city of Portland, Oregon, now On July 15 they again set out upon their Lewis and his reunited party, who had been Corn (1900) 47,256,920 bu. forced to return. ) `` `` `` 11,696,077 increasing possibility of war with France ; lence pushed. 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