Report on the Exploration of the Yellowstone RiverU.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 - 174 pagina's |
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15 miles abundant animals ascended August bad land banks barren Benton Big Horn mountains Big Horn river Black Hills bluffs boat bottom branches Bridger broken buffalo butte cañon compelled cottonwood course creek crossed day's march deep descended distance divide east encamped expedition feet five miles flows ford Fort Benton Fort Laramie Fort Pierre Fort Union four miles grass Gros Ventre gullies halt hills Indian July labor latitude leaving left camp Lieutenant Maynadier lodge miles from camp miles further Missouri Missouri river mouth mules night o'clock party passed pine plain Platte Powder river prairie rain ravines reached ridge road rock rocky route sage September Shayenne side Sioux six miles slope snow soil spur steep stream summit Three Forks three miles timber to-day Tongue river trail travelled tributary valley wagons Willow Wind river Yellowstone Yellowstone river
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Pagina 107 - Over this it precipitates itself in an even uninterrupted sheet to the perpendicular depth of fifty feet, whence dashing against the rocky bottom it rushes rapidly down, leaving behind it a spray of the purest foam across the river. The scene which it presented was indeed singularly beautiful, since without any of the wild irregular sublimity of the lower falls, it combined all the regular elegances which the fancy of a painter would select to form a beautiful waterfall.
Pagina 107 - ... yards of the southern side. Between them and the perpendicular cliff on the south, the whole body of water runs with great swiftness. A few small cedars grow near this ridge of rocks, which serves as a barrier to defend a small plain of about three acres, shaded with cottonwood, at the lower extremity of which is a grove of the same...
Pagina 107 - The river is about four hundred yards wide, and for the distance of three hundred throws itself over to the depth of nineteen feet, and so irregularly that he gave it the name of the Crooked falls. From the southern shore it extends obliquely...
Pagina 107 - Here, on a cotton-wood tree, an eagle had fixed its nest, and seemed the undisputed mistress of a spot, to contest whose dominion neither man nor beast would venture across the gulfs that surround it, and which is further secured by the mist rising from the falls. This solitary bird could not escape the observation of the Indians, who made the eagle's nest a part of their description of the falls, which now proves to be correct in almost every particular, except that they did not do justice to their...
Pagina 107 - Missouri is suddenly stopped by one shelving rock, which, without a single niche, and with an edge as straight and regular as if formed by art, stretches itself from one side of the river to the other for at least a quarter of a mile.
Pagina 20 - I would not give it. I cannot spare it, and I like it very much. All this country on each side of this river belongs to me. I know that from the Mississippi to this river the country all belongs to us, and that we have traveled from the Yellowstone to the Platte. All...
Pagina 107 - This too in any other neighbourhood would have been an object of great magnificence, but after what he had just seen it became of secondary interest: his curiosity being however awakened, he determined to go on even should night overtake him to the head of the falls. He therefore pursued the southwest course of the river, which was one constant succession of rapids and small cascades, at every one of which the bin Us grew lower, or the bed of the river became more on a level with the plains.
Pagina 106 - ... feet high: down these he hurried with impatience and seating himself on some rocks under the centre of the falls, enjoyed the sublime spectacle of this stupendous object which has since the creation had been lavishing its magnificence upon the desert, unknown to civilization.
Pagina 88 - To the left of our route and some 10 miles from it rises a bold conical peak, 3,000 or 4,000 feet above us. That peak I regard as the topographical centre of the continent, the waters from its sides flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of California, and the Pacific ocean. I named it Union peak, and the pass Union pass.
Pagina 50 - ... occupied as dwelling houses, store-houses, shops, and stables. The roofs of these structures are nearly flat, and formed of timber covered to the depth of about a foot with dirt, thus making an excellent parapet for purposes of defense, the preparations for resistance to possible attacks being further perfected by loopholes in the upper part of the outer row of logs. The entrance is through a heavy gate which is always carefully closed at night. No flanking arrangements whatever exist, and the...