. The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest . who hadrecently passed through the ordeal of the * sun dance, and assumed thestatus of warriors, presented themselves. W
. The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest . who hadrecently passed through the ordeal of the * sun dance, and assumed thestatus of warriors, presented themselves. With much ceremony the pre-paration for the sacrifice was conducted, and after all the rites had beenperformed, the heroic band mounted their ponies, forded the river, ascendedthe steep heights opposite, and made themselves ready for their fate. Itwas determined that they and their horses should be blindfolded, and, rush-ing at full speed to the steep edge of the cliff, should plunge to the rocky 168 The Northern Pacific Railroad. strand hundreds of feet below. The word was given, and the forty braves,with tremendous shouts, urged their steeds to tho brink of the cliff, and allwent down to their destruction. For years afterwards, bleaching skulls andbones of men and horses were found around the base of Skull Butte. The railroad crosses to the north side of the Yellowstone upon a substan-tial truss bridge,near the old settlement of Coulson, at the foot of Skull TROUT FISHING ON THE BIG BOULDER, Montana Division. m 169 Montana Division. BILLINGS TO HELENA.—DISTANCE, 239 MILES. Billings—(225 miles from Glendive; population, 2,200)—is named inhonor of the Hon. Frederick Billings, late President of the Northern PacificRailroad Company. It is situated at the foot of Clarks Fork Bottom, on abeautiful plain sloping down to the Yellowstone River, in the heart of thefertile and picturesque valley, and is the county-seat of the new County ofYellowstone. The town was founded i
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