. A history of the United States. tains to thePacific, and learn what they could of the country and itsIndian score andfive frontiers-men made upthe rowed,or with favor-able winds sail-ed, the boatsslowly up theMissouri,camping atnight. Theysupplied them-selves withfood from the wild game which abounded in the region — geese, antelope,deer, bear, elk, and enormous herds of buffalo. The party wintered among friendly Indians near whereBismarck, the capital of North Dakota, now stands, and withsmall canoes pushed on up the shallower waters of the UpperMissouri. An India
. A history of the United States. tains to thePacific, and learn what they could of the country and itsIndian score andfive frontiers-men made upthe rowed,or with favor-able winds sail-ed, the boatsslowly up theMissouri,camping atnight. Theysupplied them-selves withfood from the wild game which abounded in the region — geese, antelope,deer, bear, elk, and enormous herds of buffalo. The party wintered among friendly Indians near whereBismarck, the capital of North Dakota, now stands, and withsmall canoes pushed on up the shallower waters of the UpperMissouri. An Indian squaw, called the Bird Woman, whohad been kidnapped from a mountain tribe, accompaniedthem from their winter camp and won for them the friendshipof her kindred in the mountains. The explorers followedthe course of the Missouri across North Dakota and Montanauntil the river separated into three branches. These werenamed the Jefferson, the Madison, and the Gallatin. Theexpedition pushed on up the Jefferson branch until this was. Gates of the Rocky Mountains. So called by Lewis and Clark, who passed them July ig, 1805. The Missouri River is here confined by a spur of the Big Belt Mountains 272 RULE OF JEFFERSON: A NEW WEST no longer navigable. Then they left their canoes and boughthorses from the Indians, who showed them a path throughthe mountains. After a time they could not find game andhad to kill some of their horses for food. When they reacheda large river that flowed westward, they made canoes andfloated down to the Columbia. They followed the Columbiauntil it broadened into a bay studded with low islands, anduntil the roar of breakers showed them that they had reachedthe Pacific. They were now 2,100 miles from St. Louis. They builtlog-huts and spent a second winter in the western wildernesssurrounded by Indians. The return was easier, and theyreached St. Louis on September 23, 1806. It was an expe-dition worthy to rank with that of De Soto and man had died
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