. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. Typical Mountain Trapper. Steadying his voice, Captain Lewis shouted back, Youre in little danger. Stick your knife in the cliffto hoist yourself up. With the leverage of the knife, Windsor succeededin lifting himself back to the narrow ledge. Then. The Discovery of the Great Falls, LEWIS AND CLARK 317 taking off his moccasins, he crawled along the cHff tobroader foothold. Lewis sent word for the crews towade the margin of the river instead of attempting thispass — which they d
. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. Typical Mountain Trapper. Steadying his voice, Captain Lewis shouted back, Youre in little danger. Stick your knife in the cliffto hoist yourself up. With the leverage of the knife, Windsor succeededin lifting himself back to the narrow ledge. Then. The Discovery of the Great Falls, LEWIS AND CLARK 317 taking off his moccasins, he crawled along the cHff tobroader foothold. Lewis sent word for the crews towade the margin of the river instead of attempting thispass — which they did, though shore water was breasthigh and ice cold. The Missouri had now become so narrow that itwas hard to tell which was the main river and which atributary; so Captain Lewis and four men went inadvance to find the true course. Leaving camp atsunrise. Captain Lewis was crossing a high, bare plain,when he heard the most musical of all wildernesssounds — the far rushing that is the voice of manywaters. Far above the prairie there shimmered in themorning sun a gigantic plume of spray. Surely thiswas the Great Falls of which the Indians told. Lewisand his men broke into a run across the open for sevenmiles, the rush of waters increasing to a deafeningroar, the plume of spray to clouds of foam. Cliffstwo hundred feet high shut off the view. Down thesescra
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