What to see in America . 278 What to See in America and eighty houses,most of them one-room log cabins builtafter the French fash-ion with the logs setupright in the groundor on plates. It hadone doctor and threeblacksmiths, and it had a bakery, twoA Rail Fence, Ozark Mountains .t, , , n mills, and two small taverns. The place was a resort for men clad in buckskinand carrying rifles, and for Indians in paint and there the employees of John Jacob Astors AmericanFur Company in search of peltries went forth in all direc-tions — some of them to the very surf of the Pacific. In 1808 t
What to see in America . 278 What to See in America and eighty houses,most of them one-room log cabins builtafter the French fash-ion with the logs setupright in the groundor on plates. It hadone doctor and threeblacksmiths, and it had a bakery, twoA Rail Fence, Ozark Mountains .t, , , n mills, and two small taverns. The place was a resort for men clad in buckskinand carrying rifles, and for Indians in paint and there the employees of John Jacob Astors AmericanFur Company in search of peltries went forth in all direc-tions — some of them to the very surf of the Pacific. In 1808 the first newspaper established west of the Mis-sissippi began publication at St. Louis. The first steamboatthat ever ascended the Mississippi above the mouth of theOhio arrived at St. Louis August 2, 1817. The motivepower of the engine had to be reenforced at times by theexertions of the crew, who resorted to poling. She did notrun at night, and was six weeks in coming from the citizens of St. Louis had
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