. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. wa. His father, Jutras Jean-notte, was engaged in trade on the Mouse River at the time of the Lewis andClark expedition. Previously, when on the Qui-Appelle his party was attackedby Gros Ventres, his son killed, and his first wife scalped and left for dead, andhe was badly wounded. Again attacked by an Indian, he wrenched the gunfrom him and killed him. At seven years of age, his twin sister was found stillalive, scalped, and with fourteen wounds on her body. This was on BeaverCreek, a tributary of the Assiniboine. Francois, at t
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. wa. His father, Jutras Jean-notte, was engaged in trade on the Mouse River at the time of the Lewis andClark expedition. Previously, when on the Qui-Appelle his party was attackedby Gros Ventres, his son killed, and his first wife scalped and left for dead, andhe was badly wounded. Again attacked by an Indian, he wrenched the gunfrom him and killed him. At seven years of age, his twin sister was found stillalive, scalped, and with fourteen wounds on her body. This was on BeaverCreek, a tributary of the Assiniboine. Francois, at twelve years of age (1818),went to Pembina with his mother, and stayed two years at the Big Salt and LittleSalt rivers, where the Hudsons Bay Company had a trading post. In 1820 hestates a Chippewa war party found a trading post near Minot. Basil Clement arrived at Fort Pierre in 1840, at the age of sixteen, and wasemployed by the American Fur Company; spending that winter at the mouth ofthe Grand River. Bruce Osborn was also a clerk there at that time. Clement. EARLY SETTLERS OF NORTH DAKOTA HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 231 spent the winter of 1841-42 on the Cheyenne. In 1843 he returned to St. Louison the steamer Prairie Bird with Honore Picotte and Michael McGilHvray,coming back Christmas Day. He spent the winter at Camp Trader at SwanLake (South Dakota). The next winter he was on the Wind River (Wyoming)with James Bridger, a hunter, trapper and explorer at Fort Union in 1844-45,who gave some of the earliest information regarding the discovery of gold in theBlack Hills. John Robinson, uncle of Jesse and Frank James, of Missouri, waswith Bridger in 1844. The next winter Clement was on the Cheyenne Riverwith Joseph Jewett, trader; the next at the mouth of Thunder Creek on theMoreau, the next with Frederic LeBeau, and on the death of LeBeau he hadcharge of his post. In 1848 he went to the Black Hills with Paul Narcelle, trap-ping and hunting. The winter of 1849-50 he was again at the
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