Report of a reconnaissance from Carroll, Montana Territory, on the upper Missouri, to the Yellowstone National Park, and return, made in the summer of 1875 . N. PKTEm, PMOTO-UTHOQRAPHER, WMHINOTON, 0 C. TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 15 the eastward, ou the soutboru slope of the Snowies. We also heard that a fight had taken placetwo nights before between the Crows and a party of Sioux, and that a war-party of one hundredSioux bad passed subsequently through the gap, going northward. Emerging from the gap, the road led west and south over a dry, sterile, and dusty prairie, in theteeth of a blist


Report of a reconnaissance from Carroll, Montana Territory, on the upper Missouri, to the Yellowstone National Park, and return, made in the summer of 1875 . N. PKTEm, PMOTO-UTHOQRAPHER, WMHINOTON, 0 C. TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 15 the eastward, ou the soutboru slope of the Snowies. We also heard that a fight had taken placetwo nights before between the Crows and a party of Sioux, and that a war-party of one hundredSioux bad passed subsequently through the gap, going northward. Emerging from the gap, the road led west and south over a dry, sterile, and dusty prairie, in theteeth of a blistering southwest gale, across Hoppleys Hole and Haymakers and Daisy Dean Creeks,into the valley of the Mussellshell, whose freshness and greenness and abundance of timber aftbrdedthe strongest contrast to the country behind us. The hired teams were mortally weary, and hadbeen with the greatest difficulty urged all day against the strong, Jiot wind. Released from har-ness, they ran to the bank and leaped bodily into the stream, thrusting their muz- camp on Musselzles deep into the cool water with great contentment. The river is twenty-five or s!*™.thi


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