Our country in story . st distant peaks reaching into the pressed on faster and faster, leaving his compan-ions far behind. So he journeyed westward, westward,Left the fleetest deer behind him,Left the antelope and bison;Passed the mountains of the prairie,Passed the land of Crows and Foxes,Passed the dwellings of the Blackfeet,Came unto the Rocky Mountains,To the kingdom of the West-Wind. One day in the middle of June, Lewis heard a loud roar-ing noise and saw rising in the distance great clouds ofvapor. Hastening on he soon looked upon the Great Fallsof the Missouri; he gazed in
Our country in story . st distant peaks reaching into the pressed on faster and faster, leaving his compan-ions far behind. So he journeyed westward, westward,Left the fleetest deer behind him,Left the antelope and bison;Passed the mountains of the prairie,Passed the land of Crows and Foxes,Passed the dwellings of the Blackfeet,Came unto the Rocky Mountains,To the kingdom of the West-Wind. One day in the middle of June, Lewis heard a loud roar-ing noise and saw rising in the distance great clouds ofvapor. Hastening on he soon looked upon the Great Fallsof the Missouri; he gazed in silent wonder upon themighty waterfall, which, hidden here in the wildernessfrom the eyes of civilized man, had leaped down itsrocky way for ages. Joined by his companions, Lewiswalked on for ten miles. Three succeeding cataractsplunged from rock to rock over a depth of four hun-dred feet. The Great Falls of the Missouri seemed the gatheringplace of all the wild animals of the country. Captain 284 OUR COUNTRY IN STORY. CAPTAIN LEWIS VIEWING THE FALLS OF THE MISSOURI WEST TO THE PACIFIC 285 Clark says in his journal that at one time he must haveseen at least as many as ten thousand buffalo in one clumsy creatures crowded along the steep, rocky pathsand often awkwardly pushed each other into the of them were thus carried away and dasheddown the cataract to feed whole packs of bears and wolvesbelow. The party now prepared to carry the boats and baggagearound the falls. Wagons were made for the wheels they cut cross sections from a fine cottonwoodtrunk. The masts of the white boat, the last of the threebrought from St. Louis, were used as axles. The boatitself was concealed in a copse of willows. A whole month was thus spent in making wagons andhauling the boats and baggage around the Falls, a distanceof eighteen miles. With great difficulty the men draggedtheir heavy loads up rocky heights, through dense woods,and over rough buffalo paths. Pric
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