. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. Captain Meriwether Lewis. main craft was a keel boat fifty-five feet long, of lightdraft, with square-rigged sail and twenty-two oars, andtow-line fastened to the mast pole to track the boat up-stream through rapids. An American flag floatedtrom the prow, and behind the flag the universal types 3IO PATHFINDERS OF THE WEST of progress everywhere — goods for trade and a swivel-gun. Horses were led alongshore for hunting, andtwo pirogues — sharp at prow, broad at stern, like aflat
. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. Captain Meriwether Lewis. main craft was a keel boat fifty-five feet long, of lightdraft, with square-rigged sail and twenty-two oars, andtow-line fastened to the mast pole to track the boat up-stream through rapids. An American flag floatedtrom the prow, and behind the flag the universal types 3IO PATHFINDERS OF THE WEST of progress everywhere — goods for trade and a swivel-gun. Horses were led alongshore for hunting, andtwo pirogues — sharp at prow, broad at stern, like aflat-iron or a turtle — glided to the fore of the keel Captain William Clark. The Missouri was at flood tide, turbid with crum-bling clay banks and great trees torn out by the roots,from which keel boat and pirogues sheered safely the first time in history the Missouri resoundedto the Fourth of July guns ; and round camp-fire themen danced to the strains of a voyageurs fiddle. LEWIS AND CLARK 311 Usually, among forty men is one traitor, and Libertemust desert on pretence of running back for a knife;but perhaps the fellow took fright from the wild yarnstold by the lonely-eyed, shaggy-browed, ragged trap-pers who came floating down the Platte, down theOsage, down the Missouri, with canoe loads of fursfor St. Louis. These men foregathered with thevoyageurs and told only too true stories of the dan-gers ahead. Fires kindled on the banks of the rivercalled neighboring Indians to council. Council Bluffscommemorates one conference, of which there weremany with lowas and Omahas and Ricarees and was made on the south side of th
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