Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Volume 22 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...falls out of the Side hills. it has a Strong taste of Sulpher. we we drink of it freely. in the bottoms is a great quantity of flax growing all in blue blossoms &. C. Monday 17th June 1805. a clear morning. Some men employed takeing the canoes up the little River. 6 men employed making Small low waggons for the purpose of halling the canoes, Goods & baggage through the plains by the falls. Cap' Clark and five men went to Survey and measure the distance &. C. to the head of the falls to where we could take the water again. 2 hunters out in order to git Elk Skins to cover or bottom our Iron boat2 when 1 Which they named Portage Creek. It is modern Belt Creek, on the boundary between Chouteau and Cascade counties. 1 In preparation for such a contingency Lewis had had made for him at the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry the iron frame of a boat, which was to be completed by covering it with skins. On trial, however, as we shall shortly see, the device proved impracticable, and Lewis was reluctantly compelled to abandon it. we git ab the falls, as we will Stand in need of it, as we leave our largest craft at this place. the timber is verry scarse about the falls. the buffalow pleanty. in the evening we got the canoes up the Small River about 1J miles to the falls of it of about 4 feet prepinticular. we had some difficulty in gitting them up the rapids to this place one canoe turned over, was near hurting the 2 men in hir. Several others filled with water halling them up Such Steep rapids, but we got them all up Safe to this falls of the little River, and carried them out on a level, turned them on one Side to dry &. C. Tuesday 18th June 1805. this morning all hands halled out the long perogue. we leave it in a bunch of bushes below the Camp...