History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . ds, of the topo- ^ Marcy, Thirty Years of Army 7^/6,224^^9. J. G. Cooper, surgeou of the wagon-road expedition, was naturalist tothe previous expedition of I. I. Stevens, via the Missouri river to Pugetsound, 1853. C. Drexler was taxidermist in 1857. Cooper returned to Wash-ington the same season, but Magraw and Drexler wintered on Wind river,moving to Camp Scott in March, where the latter made a large collection ofbirds. Smithsonian Reft, 1858, p. 50. ^ Sim-pson Erplor. Great Basin, 7, 24-5. 700 SEITLKMKNT ANU (;OIJJ-HUNTINc;. ?Graphical e
History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . ds, of the topo- ^ Marcy, Thirty Years of Army 7^/6,224^^9. J. G. Cooper, surgeou of the wagon-road expedition, was naturalist tothe previous expedition of I. I. Stevens, via the Missouri river to Pugetsound, 1853. C. Drexler was taxidermist in 1857. Cooper returned to Wash-ington the same season, but Magraw and Drexler wintered on Wind river,moving to Camp Scott in March, where the latter made a large collection ofbirds. Smithsonian Reft, 1858, p. 50. ^ Sim-pson Erplor. Great Basin, 7, 24-5. 700 SEITLKMKNT ANU (;OIJJ-HUNTINc;. ?Graphical engineers, under orders from government,Itll an expedition from Fort Pierre, on the Missouririver, to the Hlaek hills, and having explored thenortheastern and northern ])orti()n of this range, movedon to Powder river and the Bigliorn, exploring tliecountry to the lu>adwaters of the Yellowstone andMissouri. with Bridger for a guide. Reynolds wasaccompanied by a scientific corps under Hayden, wliohad previously exjjlured the Platte valley for some. Trails in Wyoming. distance. They were escorted by a single companyof soldiers, under Maynadier and Lee, and made afavorable re])ort on the country. Men were by this time earnestly looking for gold,and the report went forth that gold had been discov-ered in the Bighorn mountains by this Reynolds, afraid of losing his escort by desertion,forbadethe discoverer to reveal the truth to any buthimself and Hayden. which reticence caused the local- » U. S. Jour., 300; 37 coug., 3 aesa. Mullan, Military lioad liept, 27. WYOMING. 701 ity to be lost; and although there had been before,and have been since, several reputed discoveries inthis range, there has never been any mining, for untilwithin recent years the Indians made it sucli desper-ate hazard that few would venture, and those whoventured seldom returned to reveal any discoveriesthey had made, and the country remained practicallyunexplored/ Colorado was swarming with gold
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