. 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, 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 . ir domain, aboutforty miles long by sixty wide, which embraces the Clarks Fork gold andsilver mines, and it is only a questio
. 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, 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 . ir domain, aboutforty miles long by sixty wide, which embraces the Clarks Fork gold andsilver mines, and it is only a question of time when the demands of thecountry for the release of all this valuable tract from its present pos-sessors will be heard. Most of eastern Montana was originally claimed l)ythe Crows, who at one time were a great and powerful nation. That thecountry was highly appreciated by these Indians is evidenced by the wordsof Arrapooish, a Crow chief, to the fur trader, Robert Campbell, as told inCaptain Bonnevilles Adventures, by Washington Irving. The Crow country is a good country. The Great Spirit has put it ex-actly in the right place. When you are in it, jou fare well; whenever yougo out of it, whichever way you travel, you fare worse. If you go to thesouth, you have to wander over great, barren plains; the water is warmand bad, and you meet the fever and ague. To the north it is cold; thewinters are long and bitter, with no grass; you cannot keep horses there,. o :4-J 1-1o 2 o o a, UC! Yellowstone Dimslon. 167 but must travel with clogs. On the Columbia they are poor and dirty, pad-dle about in canoes, and eat fish. Their teetli are worn out; they arealwaj-3 talking fish-bones out of their mouths. To the east they live well, butthey drink the muddy waters of the Missouri. A Crows dog would notdrink such water. About the forks of the Missouri is a fine country—goodwater, good grass and plenty of buffalo. In summer it is almost as goodas the Crow country; but in winter it is
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