Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . titude, as determined at the time, as6350 feet. The Denver and Rio Grande Railway gives thealtitude of Manitou as 6307. The caravan made a good startfor the north on the 19th, but a shaft of the gun-carriagewas broken in the afternoon and necessarily an early campwas made. They were travelling up Monument Creek, andon the 20th they crossed the divide again, to the head ofEast Plum Creek, down which they proceeded to the SouthPlatte, and to
Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . titude, as determined at the time, as6350 feet. The Denver and Rio Grande Railway gives thealtitude of Manitou as 6307. The caravan made a good startfor the north on the 19th, but a shaft of the gun-carriagewas broken in the afternoon and necessarily an early campwas made. They were travelling up Monument Creek, andon the 20th they crossed the divide again, to the head ofEast Plum Creek, down which they proceeded to the SouthPlatte, and to St. Vrains Fort, where the resolute Fitzpatrickand his party were discovered encamped, all in good health,with the provisions husbanded and preserved with conscien- In one of the beautiful fiords of Norway the captain of our German shipsent a gang of men with a paint-pot to paint in white letters of enormous sizehigh up on the cliffs the name of our vessel with the date, alongside othersalready there. I was astounded. My condemnation was intended to besilenced by the statement that the name of the Emperors private yachtwas placed there by his Searching for a Pass 125 tious care. The indomitable Kit Carson had also arrivedfrom Bents Fort with ten good mules. Meat was the only-thing lacking, but nevertheless all fared luxuriously, The Lieutenant here makes a peculiar statement: Ihad been able to obtain no certain information in regardto the passes in this portion of the Rocky Mountain Range,This is incomprehensible when we do not forget that Kit Car-son and Thomas Fitzpatrick who were with him knew theRocky Mountain Range from one end to the other withinthe limits of what is now the United States, especially thepart south of what is now Yellowstone Park. He furtherstates that : The passes had always been represented as impracticablefor carriages, but that the exploration of which was inciden-tally contemplated by my instructions with the view offinding some convenient po
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